Efforts to conceal the extent of dangerous car defects at Toyota Motor 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.
Last week the Justice Department socked the car company with a $1.2-billion penalty but brought no criminal charges against individual executives, an unsatisfying resolution for consumer activists who say prison is the best deterrence for corporate malfeasance.
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