Dimitrios Biller, former defense lawyer for Toyota, resigned his top-ranking position recently. He worked for the company from 2003 to 2007. He quit because, even then, Toyota was apparently committing "criminal acts" such as withholding information the company was legally required to turn over to plaintiffs' lawyers during litigation. When Biller left the auto giant he took with him 6000 internal documents which contain classified information on everything from roll-overs to roof safety to sudden unintentional acceleraction. Thus far Toyota has successfully managed to keep Biller from testifying against them.
Clearly Toyota has been involved in this scheme of withholding information for many years. It surprises me that only after a major incident, such as the current recall, has the world found out about the criminal activites of this auto company. I think that Toyota was extrememly thoughtless in their actions: it seems as though they knew beforehand about the problems with the accelerator yet they allowed those cars to enter the market nevertheless, believing it would save them money. But now that hundreds of people are suing the company for the injuries and other problems the sudden unintended acceleration caused, Toyota finds itself in possibly worse trouble than it would have if they had just fixed the problem imeadiately. They should have solved the issue while it was at its root rather than wait until it had stemmed out into an almost unmanagable crisis.
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