If that is true there should be an article in the WSJ real soon about the blood bath amongst the senior management at GM because a CEO would never accept that such potentially damaging information would be kept from them. The board of directors should be demanding that heads roll if this was truly kept secret.
It is one thing to keep such info under wraps within the company. Such decisions are made at the very top. But if such info is kept at lower levels of management and the CEO is surprised by it; those managers are fired.
Of course it is ridiculous to believe that a secret of that magnitude could be kept from the senior leadership. The corporate lawyers would have to know and that means the top of the leadership train would have to know.
Any new CEO will immediately work to understand all hidden liabilities, and this is a huge one. Either she is just an incompetent Obama crony or she’s corrupt as the day is long.