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The U.S. Justice Department has formally moved to dismiss a criminal fraud charge against Boeing and has asked a judge to cancel an upcoming trial connected to two plane crashes that killed 346 people off the coast of Indonesia and in Ethiopia, according to court documents filed Thursday.

The deal, announced last week, will allow the American aircraft manufacturer to avoid criminal prosecution for allegedly misleading U.S. regulators about the 737 Max jetliner before the planes crashed less than five months apart in 2018 and 2019.

The “agreement in principle” will require the company to pay and invest more than $1.1 billion, including an additional $445 million for the crash victims’ families, in return for dismissing the criminal case, according to court documents. Dismissing the fraud charge will allow the manufacturer to avoid a possible criminal conviction that could have jeopardized the company’s status as a federal contractor, experts have said.

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[-] [email protected] 13 points 1 day ago

Justice is lost

Justice is raped

Justice is gone

Pulling your strings

Justice is done

Seeking no truth

Winning is all

Find it so grim

So true

So real

[-] [email protected] 93 points 2 days ago

Such bullshit. Their leadership needs to be put in fucking prison.

[-] [email protected] 43 points 2 days ago

Does anyone know how orders for Boeing jets are going? Because that really screams "we are corrupt and don't care if your plane crashes" and that may be something that the world's airlines do not like.

[-] [email protected] 25 points 2 days ago
[-] [email protected] 15 points 2 days ago

Families are getting money at least. How many families will Boeing be paying off? How many people will/have they assassinated over this?

The swamp is real, Trump is the fucking king of swamp

[-] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

He's the big orange swamp creature

[-] [email protected] 11 points 2 days ago

Oh look, money can erase 346 deaths too. So at this point, when will we see the first bank robberies with 1/2 the loot being used for a pardon? Maybe someone hitting a crypto bank and slaughtering the staff. As long as they "pay their dues," all is forgiven, right?

[-] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

Nope. At that point, you're new money with no way to sustain it. You're part of The Poors but with the added step of funneling that money into "better, more capable" hands, and a poor investment for a pardon.

[-] [email protected] 9 points 2 days ago

BOEING KILLED JOHN BARNETT

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