Chrysler's attorneys in Texas later received, anonymously, photographs and an earlier report by a different inspector hired by the Kugle law firm that showed the steering system intact.
Selected visitors to her business in an 18th-century house in Dublin would be received in her drawing room with its yellow silk wall-coverings and its framed photographs of famous people.
In February an outcry greeted news that Image Data, a small New Hampshire firm, had received finance and technical assistance from the American Secret Service to build a national database of photographs used on drivers' licences.