Boeing Prosecutors Aim to Decide Criminal Charge by Early June
- Justice Department officials met with crash victims’ families
- Families want Boeing to be prosecuted over 737 Max disasters
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The US Justice Department could decide by the first week of June whether to tear up its controversial deferred-prosecution agreement with Boeing Co., according to lawyers for the families of people killed in two crashes of 737 Max jets.
Prosecutors met with the families Wednesday in Washington to share information about the timing of their investigation and listen to concerns. The relatives have criticized the department’s 2021 deal that would allow Boeing to escape criminal charges over crashes in 2018 and 2019 that killed 346 people, if the company met certain conditions, amended its disclosure practices and paid a $243 million fine.