{"id":2435648,"date":"2025-05-16T14:42:02","date_gmt":"2025-05-16T18:42:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/doj-reaches-tentative-nonprosecution-agreement-with-boeing-for-737-max8-crashes\/"},"modified":"2025-05-16T14:44:27","modified_gmt":"2025-05-16T18:44:27","slug":"doj-reaches-tentative-nonprosecution-agreement-with-boeing-for-737-max8-crashes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/doj-reaches-tentative-nonprosecution-agreement-with-boeing-for-737-max8-crashes\/","title":{"rendered":"DOJ reaches tentative nonprosecution agreement with Boeing for 737 MAX8 crashes"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fdoj-reaches-tentative-nonprosecution-agreement-with-boeing-for-737-max8-crashes%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2435648&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>The Department of Justice (DOJ) has reached a tentative nonprosecution agreement with Boeing regarding the company&#8217;s involvement in the 737 MAX8 crashes, which included a 2018 Lion air incident and a 2019 Ethiopian Airlines crash. as part of this agreement, Boeing will contribute $444.5 million to a fund for crash victims. however, this decision has sparked outrage among the families of the victims, with some legal representatives asserting that the agreement effectively absolves Boeing of accountability for their actions that led to the crashes. Legal counsel representing the victims&#8217; families has indicated plans to challenge the deal,arguing that it undermines justice for those killed in the accidents. Boeing has previously faced legal consequences, including a guilty plea to charges related to <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YuVZYV\" >misleading <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/boeing-to-pay-sec-200-million-fine-for-misleading-investors-on-737-max-safety-inspections\/\" title=\"... to Pay SEC 0 Million Fine for Misleading Investors on 737 MAX Safety Inspections\">air safety regulators<\/a><\/a>. Critics believe that dismissing the case constitutes a moral failing and may encourage future negligence in the aviation industry.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<p><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><\/p>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-header-search-button-mob dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search\" aria-labelledby=\"td-header-search-button\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search-inner\">\n<form method=\"get\" class=\"tdb-search-form\" action=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\"><\/form>\n<div class=\"tdb-aj-search\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/#\" role=\"button\" aria-label=\"Search\" class=\"tdb-head-search-btn dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<h1 class=\"tdb-title-text\">DOJ reaches tentative nonprosecution agreement with Boeing for 737 MAX8 crashes<\/h1>\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-title-line\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div id=\"Brid_2119540\" class=\"tpd-featured-video bridtv\"><\/div>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/justice-department\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">Department of Justice<\/a> will drop all charges against <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/boeing\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">Boeing<\/a> for its role in the 737 MAX8 crashes several years ago in lieu of a pending nonprosecution <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/justice\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">agreement <\/a>that pays victims.<\/p>\n<p>Boeing will pay victims $444.5 million into a crash victims&rsquo; fund, divided evenly per crash victim.<\/p>\n<div class=\"recommended-stories\">\n<h2>Recommended Stories<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/justice\/3413694\/judge-revises-order-trump-administration-refugees\/\">Federal judge revises order demanding 12,000 refugees be admitted down to 160<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/justice\/3413755\/kash-patel-fbi-hoover-building-agents-leaving-dc\/\">&#8216;Moving out of Hoover Building&#8217;: Kash Patel says over 1,500 FBI agents leaving DC<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/justice\/3412844\/tulsi-gabbard-james-comey-put-behind-bars-8647-trump-post\/\">Gabbard says Comey should be &lsquo;put behind bars&rsquo; for &lsquo;8647&rsquo; post<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"article-paywall\">\n<p>News of the deal dismayed the family members of those killed in the two plane crashes &mdash; a 2018 Lion Air crash and a 2019 Ethiopian Airlines crash &mdash; and their lawyers indicated they will challenge it.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;They can&rsquo;t just walk back from that,&rdquo; Robert A. Clifford, lead counsel in a civil litigation case against Boeing currently pending in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/trump-announces-new-legal-team-for-impeachment-defense-after-previous-team-collapsed\/\" title=\"Trump Announces New Legal Team For Impeachment Defense After Previous Team Collapsed\">federal district court<\/a> in Chicago, said in remarks shared with the <em>Washington Examiner<\/em>. &ldquo;These are facts that they agreed to. You have all the facts you need to prosecute this case.&nbsp;These families are willing to take the risks that their government apparently is unwilling to take to hold these criminals&nbsp;responsible.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;We are offended by this deal, and we will challenge this,&rdquo; he added.<\/p>\n<p>The agreement came after Boeing reached a deal with Qatar for up to 210 jets following President Donald Trump&rsquo;s visit to the Middle Eastern country. The deal, worth $96 billion, was touted by the White House for being the &ldquo;largest-ever widebody order and largest-ever 787 order&rdquo; and will support thousands of jobs.<\/p>\n<p>The White House <a href=\"https:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/fact-sheets\/2025\/05\/fact-sheet-president-donald-j-trump-secures-historic-1-2-trillion-economic-commitment-in-qatar\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">called Trump<\/a> the &ldquo;dealmaker-in-chief&rdquo; for the move. The <em>Wall Street Journal<\/em> reported that one attorney for the families questioned whether Boeing CEO Kelly Ortberg&rsquo;s appearance&nbsp;at&nbsp;a ceremony this week&nbsp;in Doha, Qatar, with Trump influenced the decision, but a person familiar with the meeting said Doha was not mentioned at the meeting.<\/p>\n<p>Boeing previously agreed to plead guilty to charges that employees lied to air safety regulators before the crashes, also agreeing to pay $2.5 billion to resolve the criminal investigation. However, prosecutors said in 2024 that Boeing reneged on the deal, failing to improve its antifraud compliance program.<\/p>\n<p>The company then agreed to plead guilty before it reached a deal with the DOJ, according to the <em>Wall Street Journal<\/em>. Sanjiv Singh, who represents families of victims of the first crash, slammed the deal as too soft.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;We view the current tentative NPA effectively as a &lsquo;slap on the wrist&rsquo; dismissal equivalent, and as such, I find it appalling and morally repugnant that this is even a consideration,&rdquo; he said in a statement shared with the<em> Washington Examiner<\/em>. &ldquo;I am also appalled by the DOJ&rsquo;s professed fear of losing at trial against Boeing.&nbsp; In what Alice in Wonderland world does Boeing win at trial, given the facts we know?&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Paul Cassell, an attorney for many of the families in the case and professor of criminal law at the S.J. Quinney College of Law at the University of Utah, asked the DOJ if he could have until next Friday to submit additional written arguments against the proposal&nbsp;explaining the families&rsquo; positions and to argue against the deal. The DOJ said it would respond to the families.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Dismissing the case would dishonor the memories of 346 victims whom Boeing killed through its callous lies,&rdquo; Cassel said. &ldquo;We will be asking Judge O&rsquo;Connor to use his recognized authority under federal law to reject any proposal like this, which would be clearly contrary to the public interest.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>The money is in addition to $500 million Boeing paid to compensate victims&rsquo; families four years ago. The <em>Wall Street Journal<\/em> reported that it would pay an additional fine of $243 million and would have to hire an independent compliance consultant to report to the DOJ.<\/p>\n<p>Irish citizen Paul Kiernan, who lost his partner Joanna Toole in the 2019 Ethiopian Airlines crash, said if another crash happens and there is no trial holding Boeing accountable, then the family members &ldquo;become complacent in the next crash and you <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/harris-announces-her-plan-for-black-men-legalize-certain-types-of-drug-dealing\/\" title=\"Harris Announces Her Plan for Black Men: Legalize Certain Types of Drug ...ing\">guys didn&#038;rsquo<\/a>;t do your job.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Canadian Chris Moore, who lost his 24-year-old daughter in the Ethiopian Airlines crash, said the additional money doesn&rsquo;t matter.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/policy\/defense\/3252266\/us-space-force-trump-second-term\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\"><strong>US SPACE FORCE IS READY FOR LIFTOFF IN SECOND TRUMP TERM<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;This isn&rsquo;t about money.&nbsp;You have no humanity,&rdquo; he said.&nbsp;&ldquo;It&rsquo;s about justice.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>The <em>Washington Examiner<\/em> reached out to the DOJ for comment, but did not receive a response.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <script data-cfasync=\"false\" src=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/cdn-cgi\/scripts\/5c5dd728\/cloudflare-static\/email-decode.min.js\"><\/script><script>!function(){var g=window;g.googletag=g.googletag||{},g.googletag.cmd=g.googletag.cmd||[],g.googletag.cmd.push(function(){g.googletag.pubads().setTargeting(\"has-featured-video\",\"true\")})}();<\/script><script>var _bp=_bp||[];_bp.push({\"div\":\"Brid_2119540\",\"obj\":{\"id\":\"27789\",\"width\":\"1280\",\"height\":\"720\",\"stickyDirection\":\"below\",\"video\":\"2119540\"}});<\/script><script defer src=\"https:\/\/services.brid.tv\/player\/build\/brid.min.js\"><\/script><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DOJ agrees to nonprosecution deal with Boeing over 737 MAX8 crashes, dropping charges in exchange for $444.5 million for victims<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2435649,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/boeing-737-max-settlement-doj.webp","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[55403,14922,7076,55404],"class_list":["post-2435648","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-737-max8","tag-boeing","tag-doj","tag-nonprosecution-agreement"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/boeing-737-max-settlement-doj.webp","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2435648","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2435648"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2435648\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2435652,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2435648\/revisions\/2435652"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2435649"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2435648"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2435648"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2435648"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}