US DoJ to meet again with MAX victims' families

BTN News
Thursday, 30 May 2024
The US Department of Justice (DoJ) will again meet with the families of victims of the two Boeing 737 MAX 8 crashes that killed 346, following the Department’s decision that Boeing violated the Deferred Prosecution Agreement (DPA) entered into three years ago.
 
The families want DoJ to move Boeing’s criminal prosecution forward, with a public trial within 70 days of July 7, 2024. 
 
(DOJ prosecutors agreed to the DPA on the proviso Boeing fulfilled certain safety requirements, but they recently concluded Boeing has not done so. 
That means criminal charges against Boeing can proceed in federal district court in Texas before judge Reed O’Connor who is overseeing the criminal matter.)
 
In the DPA, Boeing agreed to fully cooperate with the DOJ’s ongoing investigation of the airline manufacturer’s safety practices and procedures and said it would implement further safety measures as well as pay a fine to the families.  If Boeing had fully complied, the Justice Department would have moved to have all charges dropped. The DoJ said in a letter to Judge O’Connor that Boeing breached its DPA obligations “by failing to design, implement, and enforce a compliance and ethics program to prevent and detect violations of the US fraud laws throughout its operations”. 
 
Families from the US and other countries who lost loved ones in the crashes of the two MAX 8 jets in 2018 and 2019 are expected to attend in person or via the internet with representatives of the DoJ in a second “conferral meeting”.
 
It is expected families will offer their input as crime victims under the federal Crime Victims’ Rights Act to the criminal charges against Boeing.  

US DoJ to meet again with MAX victims' families

BTN News
Thursday, 30 May 2024
The US Department of Justice (DoJ) will again meet with the families of victims of the two Boeing 737 MAX 8 crashes that killed 346, following the Department’s decision that Boeing violated the Deferred Prosecution Agreement (DPA) entered into three years ago.
 
The families want DoJ to move Boeing’s criminal prosecution forward, with a public trial within 70 days of July 7, 2024. 
 
(DOJ prosecutors agreed to the DPA on the proviso Boeing fulfilled certain safety requirements, but they recently concluded Boeing has not done so. 
That means criminal charges against Boeing can proceed in federal district court in Texas before judge Reed O’Connor who is overseeing the criminal matter.)
 
In the DPA, Boeing agreed to fully cooperate with the DOJ’s ongoing investigation of the airline manufacturer’s safety practices and procedures and said it would implement further safety measures as well as pay a fine to the families.  If Boeing had fully complied, the Justice Department would have moved to have all charges dropped. The DoJ said in a letter to Judge O’Connor that Boeing breached its DPA obligations “by failing to design, implement, and enforce a compliance and ethics program to prevent and detect violations of the US fraud laws throughout its operations”. 
 
Families from the US and other countries who lost loved ones in the crashes of the two MAX 8 jets in 2018 and 2019 are expected to attend in person or via the internet with representatives of the DoJ in a second “conferral meeting”.
 
It is expected families will offer their input as crime victims under the federal Crime Victims’ Rights Act to the criminal charges against Boeing.