The After Math: Well, pay the man

This was not a good week for the major corporations of the world. Volkswagen's diesel scandal has curbstomped its bottom line, Uber paid buku bucks to settle a pair of class-action lawsuits, Apple threw a bunch of money at a patent troll to make it go away (but only for three years) and, I swear, the FBI might as well use the money it spent opening the San Bernardino iPhone to start dumpster fires, they're burning through cash so fast. Here's who paid what and why, by the numbers.

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$18.2 billion

This diesel emissions scandal has Volkswagen hemorrhaging cash. The company already took a $4.61 billion operating loss in 2015, it had to fork over $450 million to restructure its automotive division and now VW will have to pay out $5000 to each of the affected drivers. In all, Volkswagen is looking a total cost of $18.2 billion for its CO2 boondoggle.