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Information that could have fundamentally changed the lives of those impacted by the faulty ignition switch. >> reporter: five employees have now been reprimanded, 15 fired including design engineer ray degiorgio. he order add design change to the ignition switch in 2006 yet did not change the part number or note fay existing car owners of the defective switch. in a wrongful death lawsuit degiorgio denied ordering the change. >> i am not aware of this change. >> reporter: the report found his actions prevented investigators for years are from learning what had actually taken place, but the rep...

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Fundamentally changed the lives of those impacted by the faulty ignition switch. >> reporter: 15 gm employees, including senior executives, fired. five others disciplined and evidence the ignition problems were flagged as early as 1999. the engineer, who designed it, called it the switch from hell. but the investigation found no evidence of a cover-up and cleared barra of any wrongdoing. a point she's stood by since the beginning. >> you claim that never once did this ever cross your desk in the last decade. what do you say to the families? >> i was never a part of that process on this issue. ...

Dedicated our lives to this company, it is enormously painful to see our shortcomings laid out so vividly. as i read the report i was deeply saddened and disturbed. what voluckas found in this situation was a pattern of incompetence and neglect. repeatedly individuals failed to disclose critical pieces of information that could have fundamentally changed the lives of those impacted by the faulty ignition switch. >> barra says gm will compensate those injured or killed by the defective cars but didn't say how much they will be getting. gm says it is prepared to raise the death toll as well tied...

At least 13 deaths. former federal prosecutor anton valukas today will release his findings addressing the corporate culture at general motors and how it may have worked to keep the danger under wraps for a decade. now, ken and beth melton say it was a faulty switch that led to their daughter, brooke's, death in 2010. they settled their initial claims against the company but have asked to reopen the case, saying gm hid evidence from them. that is something that general motors denies, but the meltons are unconvinced. >> they're playing with numbers, that they don't count brooke's death, and she...