Toyota Brings Back Communications Executive Years After Arrest
- Julie Hamp rejoins carmaker as special adviser to Akio Toyoda
- She resigned in 2015 after importing painkillers into Japan
Toyota Motor Corp. headquarters in Toyota, Aichi Prefecture, Japan.
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Toyota Motor Corp. is bringing back Julie Hamp, the former communications executive who resigned following a shock arrest in Japan seven years ago, as a special adviser to President Akio Toyoda.
Hamp rejoined as a senior media adviser for Toyota North America as of June 20, according to the company. She was the carmaker’s first female executive and one of its highest-ranking non-Japanese officers when police took her into custody in June 2015 on suspicion that she imported prescription pain medication that required prior approval.