# Rudy's Diesel
> **Judicial** · FY2018 · — · —
## Case
- **Activity ID:** `3601396070`
- **Case Number:** EF-2018-0003
- **Type:** Judicial
- **Lead:** EPA
- **Outcome:** —
- **Penalty assessed:** —
- **Cost recovery:** —
- **Compliance action $:** —
- **Multimedia (multi-env):** —
## Defendants
- Aaron Rudolf (complaint) (settlement)
- Carolina Performance Parts, Inc.
- Rudy's Diesel (complaint) (settlement)
- Rudy's LLC (complaint) (settlement)
- Rudy's Performance Parts, Inc. (complaint) (settlement)
## Summary

Rudy?s Performance Parts Inc. (Rudy?s), a North Carolina automotive parts manufacturer and seller, and its owner, Aaron Rudolf, to pay a total of $10 million in criminal fines and civil penalties for manufacturing, selling and installing devices, commonly known as ?defeat devices,? used to remove or disable truck emissions controls. EPA and the Justice Department filed a civil complaint in 2022 against Rudy?s and Aaron Rudolf for violating the Clean Air Act by manufacturing, selling and installing defeat devices and failing to adequately respond to the EPA?s formal requests for information. Under a consent decree filed July 29, 2024, Rudy?s and Rudolf will pay a $7 million civil penalty for those violations. The consent decree would also prohibit them from making, selling, offering to sell and installing defeat devices, transferring intellectual property that would allow others to make or sell defeat devices, and investing in or profiting from defeat devices manufactured or sold by other businesses. The decree is subject to court approval.

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*Source: [EPA ECHO](https://echo.epa.gov/) · AI Analytics · CC0 1.0*