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Published daily in Bend, Oregon, by Western Communications, Inc. Copyright 2007.
By Peter Whoriskey / The Bulletin
March 19, 2010
WASHINGTON — As congressional investigators learned last month, Toyota Motor lobbyists claimed last year to have saved the company $100 million by fending off a 2007 federal investigation into unintended acceleration.
Toyota and agency officials dismissed the claim as an idle boast.
But a closer....