A  federal judge in Florida reversed a ruling on a fatal Ford car wreck case after discovering that the automaker’s testimony amounted to a calculated scheme to undermine judicial system’s ability to make a fair ruling.

Ford didn’t use just one piece of untruthful evidence. According to the judge, Ford covered up and destroyed years of testing and lies to save the reputation and sales within the company.

Although the amount of fraudulent information Ford presented in the 2003 case seems unending, main source of information came from the company’s knowledge of the acceleration problem and the failure to provide, produce, and record testing of the problem.

A Ford engineer had been warning the company about the risks posed by electromagnetic interference since 1973. Ford even maintained a $75 million reserve with could be utilized to cover a recall due to sudden accelerations.

Frivolous lawsuits or greedy victims are not the culprits in our legal system. It is when major companies abuse the system by concealing critical information, ignoring warnings from their own employees then lying about it all that leads independent juries to award damages.

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