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Toyota executives not likely to be prosecuted

Automaker wil pay $1.2B; individuals escape charges

The Columbian
Published: March 24, 2014, 5:00pm

WASHINGTON — Efforts to conceal the extent of dangerous car defects at Toyota Motor Corp. were so pervasive, prosecutors say, that an exasperated employee at one point warned that “someone will go to jail if lies are repeatedly told.”

Yet no one has gone to jail, nor is likely to.

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