Ex-Lawyer: Toyota Willfully Deceptive

Cliff Notes:

• Todd Tracy a reputable opponent of Toyota in 17 cases heard about Biller last Fall and demanded that his cases be reopened;
• Todd Tracy also demanded that Congress investigate Toyota for withholding info against him and his clients;
• Todd Tracy was able to review the Biller documents;
• Todd Tracy withdrew his suits and retracted his demand on Congress;
• Todd Tracy said that Biller's docs were worthless and proved nothing.

Nothing more needs to be said. Hold your breath, I'm certain that you'll be happy with the outcome of this.

 

What's funny is I just received an email invite this morning for the Toyota Recall Litigation Conference next month. I think a few of our attorneys will be going since we represent Toyota (but mostly airbag or seatbelt cases).

 

yep, and this is old news... that guy has no credibility at all.

 

The whistle blower is the scum of the earth.

If his allegations are true, he participated with Toyota in illegal acts that covered up evidence and destroyed documents.

He has already been convicted by state courts of violating attorney client privilege.

From the Toyota spin machine out there, I would hazard to guess he at least has some documents to support his claims. Why else would he be going through all this. The federal court is going to hear this. I have no idea if there are minor documents or something big. If its big, Toyota better get in front of it, or it will roll over on them just like one of their SUVs (last part was a joke).

 

The only one we can refer to as impartial is Tracy Todd an opponent of Toyota in 17 cases. Since he's seen these docs he's saying that Biller if a wacko, who embarrassed him btw, and that Biller has boxes filled with nothing.

 

Anybody can sue anyone for anything. Complaints aren't required to include any actual evidence; typically, they're just bluster. No meaning can be attached to the fact that somebody filed a complaint. You should see some of the crap that gets filed. Many people are just petulant; disgruntled former employees are almost always that way. You can't make predictions of the outcome of trial based only on the fact that a complaint was filed.

Here, you have a disgruntled former employee who is being sued by Toyota. In retaliation, he files a RICO claim. He is apparently representing himself and you know what they say about lawyers who represent themselves. His "smoking gun" documents (in a different case) were independently determined to be of no consequence. These facts should make you question his credibility, competance and objectivity, not rub your hands together in anticipation of Toyota being found guilty of a RICO violation.

Before I retired I used to keep (somewhat) abreast of RICO cases and I can tell you one thing - the great majority are dismissed long before trial. Our firm defended a high-profile RICO case that was important enough that the prosecution hired the top RICO attorney in the country. The result - we got that case dismissed.

 

Why would you think he is impartial? He's on a toyota pr release.

The guy making the accusations has completely destroyed his reputation with them. He worked for toyota for a long time. I don't see the harm to the US to have a federal court see the documents.

Let's see impartial from the judge, not the spin machine.

http://articles.latimes.com/2010/feb/02/business/la-fi-toyota-lawyer3-2010feb03
Just fyi: note at the end toyota says tracey has only seen non-privalaged documents. That means biller has more.

 

A point, but I read that he did *not* see all the documents. Biller states that he only provided a limited subset of documents to Todd due to pending litigation and contractual obligations. Biller states there is much more that Todd did not see.

If Biller had a spine he would have quit the first time he was asked to do something immoral and/or patently illegal. I do not know if this is a case.

 

No, if what he is now saying is true, he continued to go to court. Now he claims that what he did has caused his stress (gilt). Toyota gave him a $3.7 Million settlement when he left.

 

And I presume that you'd believe that it caused his stress at the LA District Attorney's office where he worked next. And quit soon thereafter....and sued the DA's office too.

Watch out GrumpyAndOld...I hear that he's got you in his sights too.

Oh and the then courts censured him and referred his case to the CA Bar for disciplinary actions.

He's like the one person that never should have been allowed to graduate from Law School.

 

That's someting we agree on. Don't think I'm in his sights though. He has stipulated to everything I said, other than guilt. He is guilty of a lot regardless of his claims.

 

It looks like the Congressional committee dug through his embargoed documents and found at least one smoking gun:

Toyota 'deliberately withheld' evidence in safety lawsuits, congressional investigators say - latimes.com

It sounds bad.

 

This is the kind of stuff that feeds a criminal indictment - if Toyota withheld the documents when asked by a federal agency, it is basically obstruction of justice. Obstruction is what got Scooter Libby in trouble.

 

Manufacturers are entitled to be careful when releasing information to the government or to the courts. NHTSA is not entitled to Toyota's trade secrets. But of course, a social worker like Cong Towns wouldn't know that.

As to Biller, something tells me those documents were stolen.

I don't know if it's true but I heard that the LA Times has been battling Toyota for years.

 

Are you trying to assert that accident frequency by model, root cause of the event that caused the accident, and the like are 'Trade Secrets'? Good luck trying to convince a judge of your belief.

 

Why is he an "ex-lawyer"? Was or is he also "Willfully Deceptive" that he was disbarred?

Just wondering.

Dbcassidy

 

Perhaps the 'ex' refers to him being ex of Toyota?

 

ex means that he no longer works for toyota. He claims that toyota obstructed justice while he was working for them. That does mean that he is dishonest. If he is guilty, then toyota is likely to be guilty also. I would think that allowing the papers to be seen privately by judges and the htasa would protect toyota's trade secrets without covering up safety defects.

 

I think I said that Toyota has the right to be careful in releasing documents to avoid giving trade secrets to their competitors. What constitutes a "trade secret" is the subject of legal debate.

I've read a lot about Mr. Biller and his concern for the public welfare over rollovers in Toyota's. Oh, that's right, no, it's sudden acceleration. I sign a non-disclosure agreement and then steal 6000 documents. Then I go to work for the DA's office and get fired 9 weeks later. But then they didn't consider his diagnosed mental conditions and dyslexia so we get more lawsuits out there.

Then I go to work for lawyers working on lawsuits against Toyota for sudden acceleration. Obviously, he is a unbiased and completely altruistic expert.

It's no wonder we're the laughingstock of the world having 80% of the world's lawyers. It's also no wonder that foreign companies hesitate to invest here.