Takata Corp.’s top lawyer in the United States has left his post, weeks after the Tokyo-based automotive safety equipment maker agreed to pay $1 billion in criminal penalties to the U.S. Department of Justice to resolve allegations it lied to consumers about the safety of airbags it produced.
Eric Laptook, whose departure was first reported Wednesday by Automotive News, is one of three executives who reportedly have left the company. A Takata spokesman declined to comment Thursday on the report, but a receptionist with Takata’s law department said Laptook is no longer with the company.
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