Should companies in the future need to be bailed-out by the federal government, they may not be so forthcoming with the necessary information if General Motors' confidential documents linked to its own bailout see the light of day.
Bloomberg reports the U.S. Treasury is doing all it can to protect the information submitted by GM prior to investing $49.5 billion into the automaker during the early days of the Great Recession:
Disclosure of the disputed information would also impair Treasury's ability to obtain necessary information from companies in the future. [The] Treasury's ability to act as a lender would be hampered.
The information is at the heart of a lawsuit filed by the Center for Auto Safety in 2011. Over 50,000 records were obtained thus far, but the advocacy group wants information on how much of a role the Treasury played in preventing pre-bankruptcy claims made against GM over vehicles linked to the February 2014 ignition switch recall from moving forward.
Clarence Ditlow, head of the Center for Auto Safety, disputed the idea that future companies in need of help would be dissuaded from "begging for billion in taxpayer dollars" were the desired documents revealed.
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