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March 21, 2006
Chrysler Acts to Get Texas Lawyer Disbarred
Man, this is juicy. Chrysler is aggressively trying to get a Texas lawyer who tampered with evidence in a personal injury lawsuit, and also bribed witnesses, disbarred.
Andrew Toscano, the lawyer they're going after, has yet to pay up to $1 million in fines he and the other two lawyers on the case incurred after teh suit was judged to be without merit. One of the lawyers, Robert Kugle, fled the country, while another was slapped on the wrist.
According to Chrysler, the attorneys:
-- Toscano or someone acting with his approval had tampered with the steering system in the Dodge Neon to create the false appearance that it was defective.
-- Toscano and his colleagues repeatedly refused to abide by court orders to turn over photographs of the vehicle's steering system taken before it had been intentionally damaged — photographs that they knew would expose the case as a fraud.
-- An investigator working for The Kugle Law Firm attempted to bribe and intimidate witnesses into "forgetting" that the driver had fallen asleep behind the wheel and caused the accident.
Chrysler is serious, they filed papers in Texas to have Toscano disbarred. Look for more of this aggressive, anti-scumbag attorney stuff from big companies.
Posted by Frank at March 21, 2006 8:22 PM | Filed under 5th Wheel
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