VW is yet to confirm which models are involved or how the misstatement occurred.
For example, within auditing is the concept of materiality, whereby the financial statements as a whole may not be materially misstated if an immaterial error or misstatement has occurred.
(Because of an editing error, the misstatement also occurred in the Saturday Profile on Aug. 6, about Jan Eliasson, this year's president of the General Assembly).
"While the state is certainly not in favor of any rush to judgment," Mr. Massameno said, "we certainly don't think it would be appropriate to countenance the kind of unwarranted delay and obstructionism and misstatements that have occurred in this case".
His QC, Ben Emmerson, argues the European arrest warrant that led to his client's arrest contained "fundamental misstatements" of what had occurred in Stockholm last August.
And while the transactions at the heart of the SEC's complaint may have resulted in material accounting misstatements, they are immaterial to the company's costly implosion: They occurred from 2000 to 2002 and are wholly unconnected to AIG's massive bet in the credit default markets that precipitated its ultimate collapse.
The misstatement -- which omitted the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, which occurred nearly eight months after President Bush took office -- was roundly criticized Friday, even by some of ABC's correspondents.
When an appellate court reverses a conviction, it usually allows the government an opportunity to retry the case, like when the problem is a faulty jury instruction as occurred in the trial of Enron's former chief executive, Jeffrey K. Skilling, or there were prosecutorial misstatements about the evidence like the prosecution of Brocade Communications' former chief executive, Gregory L. Reyes.
Serious allegations of misconduct involving President Trump and his associates occurred subsequent to the presidential election ― including but not limited to communications between General Flynn and the Russian government, potentially improper contact between White House aides and officials within the Justice Department, and misstatements by the Attorney General himself.
All politicians make misstatements.
