Boeing 'will be offered a sweetheart deal' says victims' lawyer

BTN News
Tuesday, 02 July 2024

The US Justice Department is expected to charge plane maker Boeing with criminal fraud - but allow it to choose between pleading guilty or going to trial.

The Department reportedly already has told the families of victims of two fatal 737 MAX crashes in 2018 and 2019 that Boeing also will have to pay an additional criminal fine of US$243.6 million on top of the US$243.6 million already paid under a 2021 deferred-prosecution agreement.

But Paul Cassell, an attorney representing the crash victims’ families, has called the offer the department plans to make to Boeing a “sweetheart plea deal” that "will not acknowledge, in any way, that Boeing’s crime killed 346 people”, he said.

“The families will strenuously object to this plea deal” and the fine, which falls far short of the US$25 billion the families requested, Cassell said.

Boeing 'will be offered a sweetheart deal' says victims' lawyer

BTN News
Tuesday, 02 July 2024

The US Justice Department is expected to charge plane maker Boeing with criminal fraud - but allow it to choose between pleading guilty or going to trial.

The Department reportedly already has told the families of victims of two fatal 737 MAX crashes in 2018 and 2019 that Boeing also will have to pay an additional criminal fine of US$243.6 million on top of the US$243.6 million already paid under a 2021 deferred-prosecution agreement.

But Paul Cassell, an attorney representing the crash victims’ families, has called the offer the department plans to make to Boeing a “sweetheart plea deal” that "will not acknowledge, in any way, that Boeing’s crime killed 346 people”, he said.

“The families will strenuously object to this plea deal” and the fine, which falls far short of the US$25 billion the families requested, Cassell said.