I was wondering what happened to the engineer because he is mentioned in the fast.ai book chapter on ethics in data science and stumbled upon this article.

> It's not just a moral burden, either. Sometimes technologists pay very directly for their actions. For instance, the first person who was jailed as a result of the Volkswagen scandal, where the car company was revealed to have cheated on its diesel emissions tests, was not the manager that oversaw the project, or an executive at the helm of the company. It was one of the engineers, James Liang, who just did what he was told.

https://github.com/fastai/fastbook/blob/master/03_ethics.ipy...