The deal is meant to compensate the families of those who lost loved ones in plane accidents.
The Department of Justice (DOJ) unveiled the new plea deal it plans to offer to the aerospace company Boeing. Boeing was first offered a plea deal by the DOJ in 2021 after investigators found that two separate Boeing plane crashes, which killed 364 people in total, were caused by similar instances of intentional negligence in the company’s manufacturing process. According to that first plea deal, if Boeing successfully implemented an accountability and ethics protocol to address this negligence within three years, the DOJ would waive all criminal charges filed against the company.
But this past February, another instance of manufacturing negligence caused the door of a Boeing plane to rip off mid-flight, endangering those on board and voiding the company’s original plea deal. Now the DOJ is planning to offer Boeing another plea deal that is very similar to the first. The only major difference is that Boeing would be required to accept one criminal conspiracy charge for misleading FAA personnel for the last three years.
The surviving families of Boeing plane crash victims have voiced their deep displeasure with this proposal. The lawyers representing the crash victims’ families, attorneys Robert Clifford and Paul Cassell wrote in a statement, “The deal will not acknowledge, in any way, that Boeing’s crime killed 346 people. It also appears to rest on the idea that Boeing did not harm any victim. The families will strenuously object to this plea deal.”
As the Lord Leads, Pray with Us…
As the Lord Leads, Pray with Us…
- For the Lord to guide the Department of Justice as it interacts with powerful private companies.
- For those American citizens who were wronged are granted divine strength as they interact with lengthy legal processes.
- For the Biden administration as it navigates the complexities of collaboration and accountability.
Sources: ABC News, Department of Justice, Reuters
