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DOJ ends prosecution of Boeing for fatal crashes
The Department of Justice dropped its felony case against Boeing on Friday for the company’s role in two fatal crashes that killed over 300 people in Indonesia and Ethiopia.
The two sides agreed to a tentative nonprosecution agreement last week that compensates the victims. The agreement put $444.5 million into a crash victims’ fund that would be divided evenly between the victims, on top of an additional $243.6 million fine for the company.
While Boeing will...