The United States Department of Justice (DoJ) said in a court filing on Tuesday that the Boeing Company violated a prosecution deal that allowed it to avoid criminal prosecution after two fatal 737 Max aircraft crashes, AP News reported.
The company failed to implement changes that would prevent it from breaching federal anti-fraud laws, which was a key condition of the 2021 settlement that shielded the company from criminal prosecution over the crashes in 2018 and 2019 that killed 346 people. This determination means that Boeing could be prosecuted "for any federal criminal violation of which the United States has knowledge."
It remains unclear whether the government will prosecute Boeing. "The Government is determining how it will proceed in this matter," the DoJ said in the court filing.
