Tokyo Police To Release Toyota Executive Accused Of Drug Trafficking - No Charges Filed

Tokyo prosecutors plan to release Julie Hamp, a former Toyota Motor Corp. executive, after she was arrested last month on suspicion of illegally importing the painkiller Oxycodone into Japan, Kyodo News reported today.

Japan's daily Yomiuri newspaper also reported Hamp was unlikely to be charged because prosecutors judged there was little criminal intent in the case, in which a family member had mailed Oxycodone pills to her to alleviate knee pain.

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MDarringer - 7/7/2015 10:07:27 AM

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She will have a hard time getting a job. No one will want to hire a drug addict.

TheSteve - 7/7/2015 11:14:49 AM

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I believe she'll just leave it out of her resume and do just fine in her next posting. If you doubt that, look up Paul G. Stern who became CEO of Northern Telecom (Nortel) in 1989. Anyone who cared to dig into his past before Nortel would have surely noticed his problematic record, yet he got hired on as Nortel's top dog. Go figure! FWIW, Nortel slid into deep doo-doo during his reign, and then went bankrupt shortly after.

MDarringer - 7/7/2015 4:41:28 PM

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Assuming no prospective employer has seen the news, leaving employment history out of a resume can be grounds for dismissal if that employment history exposes a tremendously negative aspect about the candidate.

TheSteve - 7/7/2015 5:52:03 PM

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MDarringer: the world in which company Executives and Officers operate is wildly different than the one in which salaried workers find themselves. I've walked those halls. It's a different world. It's part of the reason why an Officer does a crappy job, "leaves to pursue other interests," and departs with a multi-million-dollar golden parachute. That doesn't happen to the regular folks earning $40,000 per year.

MDarringer - 7/7/2015 7:16:49 PM

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De Nysschen wasn't caught drug trafficking though.