A congressional subcommittee has asked bankrupt Chrysler to provide documents on its planned factory closings, with the panel’s chairman saying lawmakers were not given a full accounting of the matter.

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“Members of Congress were assured that there would be no permanent Chrysler plant closings or job losses under the terms of Chrysler’s (bankruptcy),” Ohio Representative Dennis Kucinich said in a letter to Chrysler CEO Robert Nardelli cited by Reuters.


“When the terms of the bankruptcy were released on 1 May 2009, plants in Michigan, Missouri, Wisconsin and Ohio were targeted for closure,” reportedly wrote Kucinich, who chairs the Oversight and Government Reform Committee’s domestic policy panel.

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