Boeing 737 MAX victims' relatives ask judge to reject deal ending criminal case

In this article

Relatives of some of the 346 people killed in two Boeing

MAX crashes in 2018 and 2019 asked a federal judge on Wednesday to reject a deal between the Justice Department and the plane maker that allows the company to avoid prosecution in a criminal fraud case.

The agreement enables Boeing to avoid being branded a convicted felon and to escape oversight from an independent monitor for three years that was part of a plea deal struck in 2024.

The families cited Judge Reed O’Connor’s statement in 2023 that “Boeing’s crime may properly be considered the deadliest corporate crime in U.S. history.”