Toyota Accused of Hiding Rollover Evidence

[lilpup]

[[hmmm...Detroit or non-Detroit, Detroit or non-Detroit...)

ah, well

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2009/...n5273636.shtml

A former attorney for Toyota has accused the automaker of illegally withholding evidence in hundreds of rollover death and injury cases, in a "ruthless conspiracy" to keep evidence "of its vehicles' structural shortcomings from becoming known."

The explosive allegations are contained in a federal racketeering suit filed in Los Angeles by Dimitrios P. Biller, former managing counsel for Toyota Motor Sales, USA, Inc., who claims his complaints about the company's legal misconduct cost him his job.

Toyota, which is second to General Motors in car and truck sales in the U.S., called Biller's charges "inaccurate and misleading," in a statement issued late Friday to CBS News. "Toyota takes its legal obligations seriously and works to uphold the highest professional and ethical standards," the company said.

Company lawyers have not filed an answer to Biller's lawsuit, but have brought a motion to seal the complaint, claiming it is "rife with privileged and confidential information" that Biller, as a former Toyota lawyer, has no right to divulge.

more Toyota sludge?
more Toyota silencing past employees via non-disclosure threats?

[Retroit]

Gee, next thing you know we'll find out that Toyota's quality has been overrated and that their executives fly on corporate jets! Could any of this convince foreign car buyers to buy one of those nasty American cars? What will happen when Obamacare takes effect and the U.S. automakers no longer have to charge thousands of dollars more per car to cover health care costs? Could the "End of Toyota" soon be at hand?