US finalizes details of Boeing 737 MAX guilty plea deal
Hindustan TimesBy David Shepardson, Allison Lampert and Chris Prentice US finalizes details of Boeing 737 MAX guilty plea deal July 24 - The Justice Department said Boeing had agreed to plead guilty to a criminal fraud conspiracy charge and pay a fine of $243.6 million after the planemaker breached a 2021 deferred prosecution agreement, according to a court filing on Wednesday. Boeing on July 7 agreed in principle to plead guilty to conspiring to defraud the Federal Aviation Administration after the government said the planemaker knowingly made false representations about key software for the 737 MAX. Families of the 346 people killed in two Boeing 737 MAX crashes in 2018 and 2019 will be able to file objections before Judge Reed O'Connor will decide whether to accept the deal and to determine if Boeing owes restitution of the families of those killed. "We will continue to work transparently with our regulators as we take significant actions across Boeing to further strengthen our safety, quality and compliance programs," the company said.