Yeah more or less. He appointed the administrator at the time and personally approved the compliance initiative set by the administrator. In previous administrations it was a revolving door for revenue. Like most regulated industries just have 1/4 extra profit stashed away to pay for annual legal fees, pay them penalties and "Hey see you next year have a good day!" kind of thing. Then he made them part of the DOJ giving them power to pursue with criminal powers.

It's such a weird spot to be in. I never wanted to have an opinion, figured the government would stay out of the way so long as I stayed out of the way. And honestly man some of these guys _were_ doing stuff they knew was wrong and falsifying documents. In my specific situation which was not criminal thankfully, we were the scapegoat for the "classic truck idnustry". While I was a lowly employee my name was on everything. And it was purposuly ambiguous. They couldn't say "you can sell that!" So we were told "screw them they can't legally tell you to shut your product down without charging you". Just that you get sent an RFI via email directly. Then you are forced to self report, you're not told what you did wrong just that we think you "defeated emissions" What say you sir!?! That you're required to prove your innocence based on your own self report. The worst is that you are required to throw every company you work with under the bus too. That's how they got us. They got one of our dealers then followed the chain to the dude with the computer.