Second GM Engineering Exec Retires in Recall Wake
Another General Motors engineering executive is retiring in the wake of the automaker's mishandled recall of small cars.
GM says Jim Federico elected to retire after 36 years with the company. Federico plans to work outside the auto industry.
Federico was in charge of vehicle performance and safety leading up to the company's February recall of 2.6 million older-model small cars for defective ignition switches. He was also the chief engineer for global small cars starting in 2010, and may have known about ongoing internal investigations into the switches.
