Doj confirms the deal to drop the Boeing criminal proceedings due to fatal crashes: NPR

Washington – The Ministry of Justice informed a federal judge on Friday that he basically reached an agreement with Boeing to fall for criminal charges for two fatal accidents of 737 maximum jets, although the objections of family members of some crash victims were confessing.

It is the latest turn in a long-term legal saga after two 737 Max jets were killed in 346 people in 2018 and 2019.

The Ministry of Justice met a punished law enforcement agreement with Boeing during the first Trump government. However, the public prosecutor changed the course under President Biden and revived the criminal proceedings against the aerospace giants. Last year Boeing agreed to make himself guilty of cheating the supervisory authorities, but a federal judge leaned this proposed plea deal.

Now the Ministry of Justice has made another agreement that would enable Boeing to avoid law enforcement.

In a court registration, DOJ lawyers described the agreement “a fair and fair resolution that serves the public”. The deal “guarantees the further accountability and considerable advantages of Boeing immediately and avoids the uncertainty and the legal dispute, which is available through the procedure,” they wrote.

The DOJ said that the conditions of the latest deal were presented in a meeting with family members of the victims and their lawyers last week. Some of these family members supported the deal according to the DOJ registration.

However, other family members said they are outraged by the agreement and plan to combat them in court.