Tokyo Police To Send Officer To US To Help Unravel Story Of Toyota Executive Arrested For Drugs As Automaker Quietly Seeks Replacement

Does anyone still think that the Julie Hamp affair will quietly go away, and that Julie will eventually return to her office at 1-4-18 Koraku, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 112-8701, Japan? All it takes to dissuade one from this silly notion is to witness the steady drip of leaks from the Tokyo Metropolitan Police. Today, the usual “investigative source” told Kyodo News “that the tablets in question were not prescribed for her.” The same source told Kyodo that ” Tokyo police are considering sending officers to the United States to verify Hamp’s statement and confirm other aspects of the investigation.” You don’t go on a fact-finding mission to the U.S. if you want to sweep the matter under the rug.

Yesterday, a police source told Kyodo that Julie Hamp’s father shipped the package with camouflaged oxycodone tablets. A day before, the same police source told Kyodo that Julie Hamp said she needed the powerful painkiller due to problems with her knees. That statement apparently did not sit too well with the police. On the same day, they raided Toyota’s headquarters both in Tokyo, and in Toyota City, Aichi, along with a mysterious “third location.’ Hamp’s office is in Toyota’s PR department in Tokyo, and a visit there to look for pills in the drawer, and incriminating email in the computer, would probably have been enough – unless you want to make a very big point.

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MDarringer - 6/25/2015 12:33:06 PM

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Toyota needs to fire and repudiate her.

USNA1999 - 6/25/2015 8:33:06 PM

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@Mdarringer I agree with you but being that she is the highest ranking American female in the company I thought TM would look the other way and let her slide.

MDarringer - 6/25/2015 8:49:58 PM

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Drug trafficking is a huge taint regardless of her token gender.