FROM THE DETROIT NEWS: Toyota Motor Corp. turned over to Congress today a 3 1/2 -year-old memo written by employees in Japan raising questions about the company’s safety record.
The Oct. 3, 2006, memo was requested by Rep. Ed Towns, D-N.Y., chairman of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee after it was first published by the Los Angeles Times.
“If senior Toyota officials ignored important safety concerns raised by their own employees, it calls into question Toyota’s corporate priorities and its commitment to safety,” Towns wrote Monday to Toyota’s North American chief Yoshimi Inaba, giving them a noon deadline today to turn over the memo. MORE»
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