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Boeing won't face charges for violating a 737 Max plea deal
Some of the victims' families say the outcome represents "another soft-handed backroom deal with the government"
The New York Times reports that the Department of Justice will not pursue charges for a potential violation of a plea agreement, which Boeing had struck in 2021 after two fatal crashes of the 737 Max 8 model. Mark Lindquist, a lawyer representing some of the the families of the Max 8 crash victims (and some of the passengers aboard the Alaska Airlines flight that suffered the door plug blowout earlier this year), told the Times that the new deal was likely because the government did not think it could win a guilty verdict against Boeing. “While we support the imposition of a federal monitor, it should be imposed in response to criminal charges, not as part of yet another soft-handed backroom deal with the U.S. government,” she said in a statement provided to Quartz.
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