RT International The conspiracy conviction could have made the aerospace giant ineligible for US government contracts
A federal judge in Texas has granted the US government’s request to dismiss a conspiracy charge against Boeing stemming from two fatal 737 MAX crashes that together resulted in 346 fatalities, an outcome critics say spares the aerospace company from full criminal accountability.
Under the agreement announced by the US Department of Justice (DOJ), Boeing will pay approximately $1.1 billion in fines, compensation for victims’ families, and investments in safety improvements – in exchange for avoiding prosecution on a charge that it defrauded regulators by misleading them about key flight control software.
Judge Reed O’Connor of the Northern District of Texas approved the dismissal on Thursday, ruling that the government had not acted in bad faith and had met its obligations under the Crime Victims’ Rights Act – even as he expressed serious concern about the deal’s lack of a provision which would subject Boeing to independent monitoring
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