Top 10 Congressional Tongue-Lashings
Toyota president Akio Toyoda is next up in the heated congressional hearing over whether the Japanese automaker did enough to ensure customer safety in its race to become the world's top car company. Toyoda's testimony comes one day after the company's COO and president of U.S. motor sales, Jim Lentz, said the company may not be doing enough to fix the defects.
Following an explosion that killed 47 crew members on the U.S.S. Iowa in April 1989, Congress held hearings investigating the Navy's conclusion that sailor Clay Hartwig was likely to blame. The Navy, assisted by the FBI, alleged that Hartwig, a 24-year-old who died in the blast, was a suicidal homosexual, upset about a soured relationship. But the evidence was questionable, and after a series of congressional hearings and a new laboratory analysis that showed the explosion could have been an accident, the Navy reopened the case. The Navy publicly apologized to the Hartwig family in October 1991.
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