通用汽車欲借內部調查洗清女掌門瑪麗·巴拉嫌疑

General Motors still has plenty to deal with in the aftermath of the recall scandal tied to 13 deaths, but one thing it seems they won’t have to deal with is any sort of indictment of the automaker’s CEO Mary Barra.

通用汽車公司（General Motors）與13起車禍致死事件相關的召回醜聞迄今餘波未平，還有大量遺留問題亟需處理。但有一件事這家公司似乎大可放心，即它的首席執行官瑪麗o巴拉將不會受到任何起訴。

The New York Times is reporting that GM officials believe Barra will be cleared of any wrongdoing in the scandal after an investigation by former U.S. attorney Anton R. Valukas.

《紐約時報》（The New York Times）報道稱，通用汽車的高管們相信，在前任美國律師安東oR. 瓦盧卡斯結束調查後，巴拉就將被證明她在這起召回醜聞中並不存在任何過失。

GM is expected to release the report’s findings on Thursday morning.

通用汽車將於週四上午發佈這項調查報告的最終結論。

The automaker is accused of ignoring defects in its cars, which led to deaths for years, and was recently fined $35 million by the Department of Transportation and the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration. The automaker is still under investigation by the Department of Justice, which may impose a fine that would dwarf those of the DoT and NHTSA.

這家汽車廠商被控有意忽視所產汽車的內在缺陷，導致了多年來多起車禍致死事件。近期它因此被美國交通部（Department of Transportation）和國家公路交通安全管理局（National Highway Traffic Safety Administration）罰款3500萬美元。最近它還在接受司法部（Department of Justice）調查，最終可能會被開出遠高於3500萬美元的罰單。

The automaker hired law firms to look into its massive car recall following deaths related to faulty ignition switches.

這家汽車廠商在因點火開關故障導致車禍致死並隨之大規模召回後聘請律所開展了深入的調查。

The Times reports that David J. Friedman, acting director of NHTSA, said he doesn’t “have any records of” documents proving Barra knew about the problem before GM issued the recall.

《時代》週刊（Times）報道稱，國家公路交通安全管理局代理總監大衛oJ. 弗裏德曼表示，沒有“任何記載在案的”文件表明，巴拉在通用汽車執行召回前就知道這個故障。

Barra has testified twice before Congress on the matter, and became in many ways the public face of the beleaguered U.S. automaker. The Times notes that it has not yet been explained why the CEO of GM did not know about the defects in its cars earlier, despite the fact that the company seems to have known about the faulty ignition switches that led to the crashes since around 2001.

巴拉此前已經在國會就此事接受過兩次質詢，並在很多方面成了這家深陷困境的美國車商的形象代言人。不過《時代》週刊特意指出，還無法解釋爲什麼通用汽車的首席執行官沒有更早了解自己產品的這個缺陷，儘管事實表明，這家公司早在2001年就似乎已經知道它的點火開關存在問題。

On Tuesday GM reported its best monthly sales results since August 2008.

而本週二通用汽車稱，公司月銷售業績達到了2008年8月以來的最佳水平。