Takata agrees to guilty plea, will pay $1B for hiding defect

Monday, January 16, 2017

DETROIT -- Takata Corp. agreed to plead guilty to a single criminal charge and will pay $1 billion in fines and restitution for a yearslong scheme to conceal a deadly defect in its automotive air-bag inflators.

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