Volkswagen can’t seem to shake off its “Dieselgate” scandal, even as it has cost the company more than billion in fines, penalties, restitution and settlement of lawsuits since September 2015. The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) last week charged Volkswagen AG, two of its subsidiaries, and its former CEO, Martin Winterkorn, “for defrauding U.S. investors, raising billions of dollars through the corporate bond and fixed income markets while making a series of deceptive claims about the environmental impact of the company’s ‘clean diesel’ fleet.” The German automaker had faked emissions levels in some 580,000 vehicles it sold between 2006 and 2015, using a “defeat device” or software intended to pass regulatory lab tests, whereas in real-world driving, the emissions were several times the permissible limits. The scandal has thus far sent a senior executive on a seven-year prison term, cost Winterkorn his job and led to suspensions of several top executives.…