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In a legal filing Tuesday, the U.S. Department of Justice rejected a plea by the families of those who died in the two Boeing 737 Max crashes to throw out the heavily criticized settlement it reached with the company last year.

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In a legal filing Tuesday, the U.S. Department of Justice rejected a plea by the families of those who died in the two Boeing 737 Max crashes to throw out the heavily criticized settlement it reached with the company last year.

SEATTLE — In a legal filing Tuesday, the U.S. Department of Justice rejected a plea by the families of those who died in the two Boeing 737 MAX crashes to throw out the heavily criticized settlement it reached with the company last year.

Mark Forkner of Keller is the focus of the first criminal case connected to the Boeing 737 MAX jets investigation. Two major crashes killed more than 300 people. His attorneys filed a motion asking the judge to dismiss the six counts of fraud against him.

The days when Boeing earned renown as an aerospace titan that Puget Sound and America could trust appear sadly gone. The well-documented mistakes that resulted in fatal crashes of the rushed-to-market 737 MAX are among numerous symptoms of deep corporate rot going back years, and continuing long after responsible leadership should have reversed course.

Relatives of passengers who died in crashes of Boeing 737 Max jets are pressing Attorney General Merrick Garland to help them re-open a settlement that

Relatives of passengers who died in crashes of Boeing 737 Max jets are pressing Attorney General Merrick Garland to help them re-open a settlement that shielded Boeing from criminal prosecution for misleading federal safety regulators about the plane.

They say the Justice Department violated a victims rights law by not consulting with them before reaching the settlement.