The Justice Department has determined that Boeing violated a settlement that allowed the company to avoid criminal prosecution after two deadly crashes involving its 737 Max aircraft.

The Justice Department has determined that Boeing violated a settlement that allowed the company to avoid criminal prosecution after two deadly crashes involving its 737 Max aircraft, prosecutors told a federal judge on Tuesday.

It is now up to the Justice Department to weigh whether to file charges against the aircraft maker. Prosecutors will tell the court no later than July 7 how they plan to proceed, the Justice Department said.

Boeing failed to make changes to prevent it from violating federal anti-fraud laws — a condition of the the 2021 settlement, Glenn Leon, the head of the fraud section of the Justice Department’s criminal division said in a letter.

  • @[email protected]
    49•7 months ago

    How many criminal prosecutions do I get waived if, for strictly hypothetical reasons, if I send tens of people into danger by launching them in a metal tube that comes apart midair?

    As a side notes, I am starting an aero tube company that ‘already’ has ‘multiple’ ‘investers’. DM me for info on how to give me money!

    • mynachmadarch
      23•7 months ago

      Call it “Sky gate” and control the tube with a $15 cheapo gamepad and I’m in.

      • @NegativeInf
        12•7 months ago

        Yea. It’s a once in a lifetime trip to visit the site of the Columbia disintegration. 120k per passenger. No refunds.

    • @Beetschnapps
      12•7 months ago

      Well that depends, can you get a republican elected in 6 months?

      Heaven forbid you suffer “REGULATIONS”…