Report: Toyota documents complainants 'Trouble' House panel23: 00 26/02/2010, Jeremy Korzeniewski, Akio Toyoda, akiotoyoda, Biller Dimitrios, Dimitrio

Report: Toyota documents complainants 'Trouble' House panel23: 00 26/02/2010, Jeremy Korzeniewski, Akio Toyoda, akiotoyoda, Biller Dimitrios, Dimitrios P. Biller, dimitriosbiller, dimitriosp.biller, ed towns, edtowns, House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, houseoversightandgovernmentreformcommittee, national traffic highway safety administration, nationalhighwaytrafficsafetyadministration, NHTSA, Toyota, Toyota's research, recall toyota , toyota recalls, safety, toyota, toyota hidden security, security concerns Toyota toyotainvestigation, toyotarecall, toyotarecalls, toyotasafety, toyotasafetyconcealed, toyotasafetyconcerns, Yoshimi Inaba, yoshimiinaba,, Autoblog
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And the saga continues. According to the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman Ed Towns (New York), the documents obtained by the committee under subpoena by Dimitrios Biller - management consultants in the product liability group of Toyota Motor Sales USA . UU. April 2003 to September 2007 - "indicate Toyota deliberately withheld the records that was legally bound to produce in response to discovery orders in litigation."

Cities said that overturning cases that many documents as "concern" in which a driver or passenger was injured, including cases where victims are paralyzed. "In a letter sent to Yoshimi Inaba, Toyota's chief operating officer in North American Cities wrote:

In sum, the documents indicate a systematic disregard Biller of law and the systematic violation of court discovery orders in litigation. Persons injured in accidents involving Toyota vehicles may have been wounded a second time when Toyota failed to produce relevant evidence in court ... In addition, it also poses very serious questions as to whether Toyota also has retained important, relevant information from the NHTSA.
Toyota also holds out the so-called "Books of Knowledge", which contains information on Toyota's engineers in the interior design and testing data. So was celebrated this information to the automaker, according to alleged multimillion-dollar settlements to safeguard data civics. Serious charges indeed, and the cities of Toyota has given up Friday, March 12th to respond.


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[Source: The Detroit News | Image: Kazuhiro Nogi / AFP / Getty]
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