The 63-year old will also be forced to pay $200,000 for his role in the emissions cheating scandal which still continues to reverberate today.Liang was facing a prison sentence of up to five years for conspiracy but he cooperated with the investigation and prosecutors said he "provided an insider's perspective of a company that had lost its ethical moorings in pursuit of increased market share and corporate profits. One of the first Volkswagen employees to be sentenced in the Dieselgate scandal has been handed a lengthy prison term by U.S. District Court Judge Sean Cox.As Automotive News reports, Judge Cox sentenced former Volkswagen engineer James Liang to 40 months in prison. ►Related: Judge sentences Volkswagen to $2.8B criminal fine for emissions cheating

 

 Others charged in the case are in Germany and out of reach.
Former Volkswagen engineer James Liang is sentenced by U.S. District Court Judge Sean Cox to 40 months in prison and a $200,000 fine for his role in the decade-long scheme to cheat on federal emissions tests for diesel-powered cars sold in the United States. He is the first company employee sent to prison in the scandal.