Toyota Kept Secret "Books of Knowledge" on Safety Issues
Toyota is looking worse by the week. A House congressional committee recently subpoenaed documents from Mr Dimitrios Biller, a former in-house Toyota lawyer, who alleges Toyota withheld key documents in personal injury lawsuits in spite of court orders to produce the documents.
Based on Toyota documents produced in response to the subpoena, Rep. Edolphus Towns (D. N.Y.) last week sent a letter to Toyota asking about Toyota's electronic "Books of Knowledge," in which Toyota engineers kept design and testing data. Rep. Towns states the books were not not turned over to the plaintiffs in the lawsuits.
Rep Towns said Toyota settled lawsuits paying millions of dollars when the plaintiff was close to getting to obtaining the "Books of Knowledge."
