This Administration Gave Boeing A Very Generous Deal On Plane Crashes
The post This Administration Gave Boeing A Very Generous Deal On Plane Crashes appeared on BitcoinEthereumNews.com. Kelly Ortberg President and CEO of Boeing speaks next to President Donald Trump In Qatar, May 15, … More 2025. Boeing was just allowed to a deal with the government on its crashes without a fraud conviction or an independent monitor (AP Photo/Alex Brandon) Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All rights reserved The Administration announced May 23rd a deal with Boeing, one of the biggest government contractors, to avoid prosecution over deadly 737 Max crashes. Boeing must pay fines and funds for victims, compliance, safety, and quality. But, Boeing had originally submitted to a criminal plea last year that would have been much tougher. It would have had to plead guilty on criminal fraud charges – because of how it had deceived the government about its horrifying safety failures – such a felony fraud conviction being the mark of Cain for a defense contractor like Boeing. And, Boeing would have had to submit to a Justice Department—appointed compliance monitor, with the independence and power to impose stern safety reforms. Instead, under today’s sweetheart version, Boeing not only gets no fraud conviction at all, but it will get to retain its own compliance consultant — some agreeable figure it chooses, not an independent outside monitor — a sweetheart deal if ever there was one. Much of the press has ignored that Boeing is getting the kid glove treatment as a government contractor now, falling for the Administration’s manipulative press handling that did not draw a contrast with the 2024 plea deal. And none of the press has caught on to how a conservative extremist judge got Boeing out of the old tough plea deal last year, postponing the day of reckoning to this Administration’s tender handling. The story of how Boeing got to today’s much more generous deal than last year’s…
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Kelly Ortberg President and CEO of Boeing speaks next to President Donald Trump In Qatar, May 15, … More 2025. Boeing was just allowed to a deal with the government on its crashes without a fraud conviction or an independent monitor (AP Photo/Alex Brandon) Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All rights reserved The Administration announced May 23rd a deal with Boeing, one of the biggest government contractors, to avoid prosecution over deadly 737 Max crashes. Boeing must pay fines and funds for victims, compliance, safety, and quality. But, Boeing had originally submitted to a criminal plea last year that would have been much tougher. It would have had to plead guilty on criminal fraud charges – because of how it had deceived the government about its horrifying safety failures – such a felony fraud conviction being the mark of Cain for a defense contractor like Boeing. And, Boeing would have had to submit to a Justice Department—appointed compliance monitor, with the independence and power to impose stern safety reforms. Instead, under today’s sweetheart version, Boeing not only gets no fraud conviction at all, but it will get to retain its own compliance consultant — some agreeable figure it chooses, not an independent outside monitor — a sweetheart deal if ever there was one. Much of the press has ignored that Boeing is getting the kid glove treatment as a government contractor now, falling for the Administration’s manipulative press handling that did not draw a contrast with the 2024 plea deal. And none of the press has caught on to how a conservative extremist judge got Boeing out of the old tough plea deal last year, postponing the day of reckoning to this Administration’s tender handling. The story of how Boeing got to today’s much more generous deal than last year’s…
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