Attorney General Kris Kobach today joined a coalition of 50 attorneys general announcing a $149 million settlement with Mercedes-Benz USA for violating state laws that prohibit unfair or deceptive trade practices by marketing, selling and leasing vehicles equipped with illegal and undisclosed emissions defeat devices designed to circumvent emissions standards. Kansas will receive $250,000. Beginning in 2008 and continuing to 2016, the states allege Mercedes manufactured, marketed, advertised and distributed nationwide more than 211,000 diesel passenger cars and vans equipped with software defeat devices that optimized emission controls during emissions tests, while reducing those controls outside of normal operations. Approximately 539 of impacted vehicles were sold or registered in Kansas.