Lawyer for Families of Boeing Crash Victims Condemns Deal to Drop Prosecutions

The Trump administration told a federal judge Friday it had reached an agreement with Boeing to drop criminal prosecutions over the fatal crashes of two 737 MAX jets in 2018 and ’19, which together killed 346 people. Under the deal, Boeing would pay $1.1 billion in fines and investments, including to a crash victims’ fund. A lawyer for the families promised to urge a judge to reject the deal, saying in a statement, “This kind of non-prosecution deal is unprecedented and obviously wrong for the deadliest corporate crime in U.S. history.”