Boeing 737 MAX victims' relatives ask judge to reject deal ending criminal case
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Relatives of some of the 346 people killed in two Boeing 737 MAX crashes in 2018 and 2019 on Wednesday asked a federal judge to reject a deal between the Justice Department and the planemaker to allow the company to avoid prosecution in a fraud case.
The agreement allows 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.
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