DOJ: Boeing could face criminal prosecution for breaching safety agreement – National & International News – WED 15May2024

DOJ: Boeing could be facing criminal prosecution for breach of safety agreement.

RFK Jr. campaign accuses Biden, Trump of “colluding” to exclude him from debates.

DOJ: Boeing could be facing criminal prosecution for breach of safety agreement

In 2021, Boeing struck a deferred prosecution agreement with the Department of Justice following two fatal crashes of Boeing 737 Max planes (one in Ethiopia and the other in Indonesia) which killed a total of 346 people. Boeing agreed to pay a $2.5 billion settlement and abide by certain conditions governing safety and reporting of potential safety issues.

Following the door-plug blowout on an Alaska Airlines flight in January, the FBI opened a criminal investigation. In a court filing in Texas, federal prosecutors reported that Boeing had “breached its obligations” under the agreement, including by failing to “design, implement, and enforce a compliance and ethics program to prevent and detect violations of the U.S. fraud laws throughout its operations”.

Boeing now has until June 13 to respond to the DOJ’s filing. The DOJ recently met with family members of those who perished in the Ethiopian and Indonesian crashes, and will do so again later this month. Attorneys welcomed the news that the DOJ was pursuing further action against Boeing in response to their concerns about a lack of accountability at the company.

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Before a suspicious and untimely death, a Boeing whistleblower gave explosive testimony in a deposition.

Yet another Boeing whistleblower came forward last week saying management ignored his concerns about defective plane parts.

RFK, Jr., campaign accuses Biden, Trump of “colluding” to exclude him from debates

Third-party Presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., has accused the Biden and Trump campaigns of conspiring to exclude his potential participation in a presidential debate later this year. Today, Biden and Trump agreed to hold two one-on-one debates, one in September and the other in October. Biden initially ruled out participating in any debate run by the nonpartisan Commission on Presidential Debates, which has organized presidential debates for decades. Instead, Biden proposed debates broadcast and moderated by major news networks. Trump quickly agreed.

Theoretically, any Presidential candidate that has six polls above 15% and who is on enough state ballots to get to 270 electoral votes would be eligible to participate in CPD debates. Kennedy is already polling above 16% in some polls, though he is so far only on the ballot in four states. 

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