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Boeing agreed in July to plead guilty to conspiring to defraud regulators. Prosecutors arrived at the plea agreement after an extensive investigation and a series of meetings with the families, prosecutors said. He argued the judge should accept the plea agreement. The Justice Department argued that the penalties Boeing agreed to were the most serious available. During a three-year probationary period that followed, Boeing agreed to improve its quality issues and transparency with the government.
Persons: Max, Reed O’Connor, Judge O’Connor, Paul Cassell, , , Sean Tonolli, Department’s, Boeing “, ” Mark Filip, Organizations: New, New York CNN, Boeing, US Justice Department, Prosecutors, Justice Department, Alaska Airlines, Department, Federal Aviation Administration, FAA Locations: Fort Worth , Texas, New York, United States, Alaska
WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Tuesday takes on another battle over restrictions on firearms as the justices consider the Biden administration's move to ban "ghost gun" kits that allow people to assemble deadly weapons at home while skirting existing regulations. The challengers focus on the text of the Gun Control Act, saying in their brief that the law simply doesn't apply to gun kits. The ATF does not have unilateral authority to ban ghost guns, with Congress required to act if it wants to do so, they argue. Those defending the availability of ghost gun kits say that they are mostly used by hobbyists, rejecting the government's argument that criminals favor them. Although it is a gun case, the legal question does not turn on the right to bear arms under the Constitution's 2nd Amendment.
Persons: WASHINGTON —, , Biden, Elizabeth Prelogar, Attorney Alvin Bragg, John Roberts, Amy Coney Barrett, District Judge Reed O’Connor, Jennifer VanDerStok, Michael Andren Organizations: Biden, of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, Explosives, Manhattan, Attorney, federal Gun Control, District, Circuit, Control, ATF Locations: York City, Texas, New Orleans
CNN —The US Justice Department on Tuesday notified Boeing that it breached terms of its 2021 agreement in which the company avoided criminal charges for two fatal 737 Max crashes. The notification comes as the Justice Department conducts a new investigation into Boeing’s operations in the wake the door plug incident. The earlier deal had resolved a fraud investigation related to the company’s development of its 737 Max aircraft. Under its deferred prosecution agreement from January 2021, Boeing paid $2.5 billion in penalties and promised to improve its safety and compliance protocols. In March, the FAA identified more potential safety issues with the engines of the 737 Max and 787 Dreamliner.
Persons: Max, , Reed O’Connor, Biden, Paul Cassell, ” Cassell, Organizations: CNN, US Justice Department, Boeing, Alaska Airlines, Department of Justice, Justice Department, Max, Lion, Justice, Air Force, Transportation Safety Board, Federal Aviation Administration, FAA Locations: United States, Fort Worth , Texas
A federal judge in Texas denied a request by families of those killed in two 737 MAX crashes to throw out or modify a two-year-old settlement between Boeing Co. and the U.S. Department of Justice. “This court has immense sympathy for the victims and loved ones of those who died in the tragic plane crashes resulting from Boeing’s criminal conspiracy,” Judge O’Connor wrote in his ruling. The decision by Judge O’Connor is his third substantive ruling on the legal challenge launched by the 737 MAX victims’ relatives group. The judge last year ruled that the families of those who died in the 2018 and 2019 crashes were victims of the safety failures outlined by prosecutors. In January, Judge O’Connor presided over an arraignment the families had requested.
The families of Boeing’s 737 Max crash victims may weigh in on a previous settlement with the Justice Department. A federal judge is requiring Boeing Co. to be arraigned on a previously settled criminal charge stemming from two crashes of its 737 MAX jets, and will allow accident victims’ relatives to speak in court about an agreement that allowed the aerospace company to avoid being indicted or pleading guilty. The decision, handed down Thursday by U.S. District Judge Reed O’Connor in Fort Worth, Texas, comes after the 737 MAX families had protested how the Trump administration’s Justice Department settled with Boeing in January 2021. Under terms of the settlement, the company agreed to pay $2.5 billion and entered into a deferred prosecution agreement.
A US judge in Texas ruled on Friday that people killed in two Boeing (BA) 737 MAX crashes are legally considered “crime victims,” a designation that will determine what remedies should be imposed. The deal capped a 21-month investigation into the design and development of the 737 MAX following the deadly crashes in Indonesia and Ethiopia in 2018 and 2019. The families of the victims of the Ethiopian Airlines crash of the Boeing 737 Max jet held a vigil in front of the US Department of Transportation headquarters in Washington, DC on Sept. 10, 2019. Boeing wants Congress to waive a December deadline imposed by the legislation for the FAA to certify the MAX 7 and MAX 10. Last month, Boeing paid $200 million to settle Securities and Exchange Commission charges it misled investors about the MAX.
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