“I wish I could turn back the clock” — GM CEO

The company’s expected $900 million payment, confirmed by a second source, is less than the $1.2 billion that Toyota Motor Corp paid to resolve a similar case.

GM also agreed to a partial settlement of private litigation with drivers, passengers and families over the switches, and a settlement of related shareholder litigation.

It would shift from preparing rebels for front-line combat to preparing smaller numbers of them to embed with larger Syrian Kurdish and Arab forces to coordinate USA airstrikes and provide other kinds of support, the officials said. Those expenses include government fines, compensation for victims and the recall and fix of millions of vehicles. When asked whether employees should have been charged, she deferred to Bharara’s office. “It is another step forward for us as we grow into the great company and zero defect product organization that I know we can and will become”, said Mark Reuss, GM Executive Vice President of Global Product Development. This is driven by a few notable strengths, which we believe should have a greater impact than any weaknesses, and should give investors a better performance opportunity than most stocks we cover.

“People were hurt and people died in our cars”, Barra told hundreds of employees at the Vehicle Engineering Center here. Yet the GM employees who caused 124 deaths are able to hide behind a corporation because our laws are insufficient. “It must change”.

Adding to the challenge facing prosecutors, Mr. Bharara said, was the need to prove “criminal intent”, which is generally required to prosecute crimes in the United States. But the law allows the filing of charges for not disclosing the defect to regulators. Barra described the agreement as “tough”, but said the automaker let customers down.

GM’s fine is likely to be less than Toyota because the company cooperated with the investigation, according to legal analysts. Although federal prosecutors said that they couldn’t find an individual responsible for the tragedy, GM said it has laid off “wrongdoers”.

Paul Lesperance of Macomb Township lost his father. Court papers pertaining to it were signed Wednesday.

Among duties, the monitor will review GM’s procedures and ensure GM corrects prior statements and assurances concerning motor vehicle safety.

Instead, Bharara wrote in court papers, it concealed the defect from regulators and the public “so that the company could buy time to package, present, explain and manage the issue.”.

Thursday’s announcements end a long federal investigation into GM’s handling of a fatal ignition switch flaw in 2.6 million Chevrolet Cobalts and other older small GM cars. That shuts the auto off, disabling vehicle safety systems including airbags.

Last year, GM established a fund to compensate victims.

Since the ignition switch recalls began in February 2014, GM has been hit with more than 200 lawsuits consolidating claims from thousands of individuals.

GM will take a $575 million charge for those settlements.

Also Thursday, GM announced it that it will spend $575 million to settle numerous civil lawsuits filed against the company over the ignition switch problems.

Even with the settlements, GM can not close the books on the scandal. Six are scheduled for trial.

This story has been corrected to show that the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration found that GM was slow to report problems with ignition switches, not air bags.