‘No coverup,’ GM says, but fires 15 over recall

WASHINGTON, D.C.: General Motors chief executive Mary Barra said last week that the company has fired 15 mostly senior executives over the deadly ignition scandal that has placed the carmaker under federal investigation.

But Barra said an internal investigation into why the company did not act on the problem for 11 years concluded there had been no concerted effort to hide it, instead showing a “deeply troubling” history of “incompetence and neglect.”