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It's a prosecutor's favorite question: What did you know and when did you know it?

With the feds now alleging Toyota of  "knowingly hiding dangerous defects", and proposing a record civil fine, this is a bad time to have the wrong answer.

Now it looks like the timeline is back at least as far as January 16. Read the memo at Freep.com and the story behind it at Automotive News (free registration required).