The Securities and Exchange Commission had a tough go of it at a hearing Friday before U.S. District Judge Charles Breyer of San Francisco, who is overseeing the SEC’s securities fraud case against Volkswagen. It’s just not a good day for the government when a judge feels compelled to point out that the bird in your agency’s symbol is an eagle, “not a carrion hawk that simply descends when everything is all over and sees what it can get.”
via With help from Judge Breyer, VW signals multi-pronged defense in SEC case – Reuters.