by Mike Spector, Chris Prentice and David Shepardson
NEW YORK/WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. Department of Justice has not made a decision on whether to prosecute aircraft maker Boeing for violating the terms of a 2021 settlement fatal 737 MAX crashes in 2018 and 2019, a senior DOJ official said in an email seen by Reuters.
Glenn Leon, chief of the Justice Department’s fraud section, said Friday in an email to attorneys representing crash victims’ family members that “the department has not made a decision on how to proceed or whether the opportunity to sue Boeing. The Justice Department and Boeing declined to comment.
In May, the Justice Department said Boeing violated a 2021 agreement with prosecutors that protected it from criminal prosecution for the fatal crashes. The 2021 DPA required the US aircraft manufacturer to review its compliance practices. Boeing said it stood by the agreement.
Earlier Friday, the New York Times reported, citing unnamed sources, that the Justice Department “should allow Boeing to escape criminal prosecution” for violating the DPA.
(Mike Spector in New York, David Shepardson in Washington, Abhijith Ganapavaram in Bangalore and Chris Prentice in New York; Nicolas Delame)
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