DOJ Says Lies And Coverup Was So Extensive At Toyota That It Would Be Difficult To Prosecute Anyone

Efforts to conceal the extent of dangerous car defects at Toyota Motor were so pervasive, prosecutors say, that an exasperated employee at one point warned that “someone will go to jail if lies are repeatedly told.”

Yet no one has gone to jail, nor is likely to.

Last week the Justice Department socked the car company with a $1.2-billion penalty but brought no criminal charges against individual executives, an unsatisfying resolution for consumer activists who say prison is the best deterrence for corporate malfeasance.

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Agent009 - 3/27/2014 1:01:12 PM

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I imagine the same will hold true over at GM..

TheSteve - 3/28/2014 1:02:17 AM

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So let’s recap:
(1) Crime Scene Investigators never found a Toyota defect that caused the alleged unintended acceleration.
(2) Ditto with multiple government inquisitions.
(3) Ditto with freakin’ rocket scientists from NASA! (No, I’m not joking!)
(4) But the courts are certain Toyota is guilty the alleged defects, and of hiding them!
(5) The courts have found no evidence of defects, but because they know they exist, they also know that there was a massive cover-up at Toyota, and leak-proof lying that covered up any proof of the truth.

Sounds like a classic conspiracy theory to me, like aliens building pyramids, aliens abductions, etc.

MrEE - 3/28/2014 7:44:02 PM

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Save the prison time for GM execs.