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Ethiopian Airlines Group CEO, Tewolde GebreMariam, visits the site of a catastrophic 737 MAX airplane crash Ethiopia just after the March 2019 incident. (Ethiopian Airlines Photo via Twitter) Boeing says it’s entered into a $2.51 billion agreement with the U.S. Justice Department to resolve a criminal charge related to the Federal Aviation Administration’s evaluation of Boeing’s 737 MAX airplanes. The deferred-prosecution agreement addresses a single charge of conspiracy to defraud FAA inspectors about the safety of the 737 MAX’s automated flight control system. Investigators say chan...

Provided by Dow Jones By Dave Michaels,, Andrew Tangel and Andy Pasztor Boeing Co. will pay $2.5 billion to resolve a Justice Department criminal investigation and admit employees misled aviation regulators about safety issues that led to two deadly crashes of the 737 MAX, authorities said. The settlement, which was filed Thursday in Dallas federal court, would lift a legal cloud that has hung over the aerospace company for about two years since the fatal crashes. Federal prosecutors had been investigating the role of two Boeing employees who interacted with the...

Published January 07. 2021 10:40PM  Ian Duncan, Lori Aratani and Michael Laris, The Washington Post Get the weekly rundown Email* Submit The Justice Department on Thursday said Boeing has agreed to pay more than $2.5 billion to resolve a charge that it conspired to defraud the Federal Aviation Administration during its review of the 737 Max, the airliner involved in a pair of deadly crashes that killed 346 people. David P. Burns, acting assistant attorney general for the Justice Department's Criminal Division, said the crashes "exposed fraudulent and deceptive con...

Boeing Settles 737 Max Fraud Charge With $2.5 Billion Agreement Bloomberg 1/8/2021 Alan Levin and Julie Johnsson © Bloomberg The Boeing Co. 737 Max airplane taxis after landing during a test flight in Seattle, Washington, U.S., on Wednesday, Sept. 30, 2020. Federal Aviation Administration chief Steve Dickson, who is licensed to fly the 737 along with several other jetliners from his time as a pilot at Delta Air Lines Inc., will be at the controls of a Max that has been updated with a variety of fixes the agency has proposed and may soon make mandatory. (Bloomberg) -- Boei...

FAIRFIELD-SUISUN, CALIFORNIA Eight of about a dozen grounded American Airlines Boeing 737 Max 8 aircraft were parked on a remote taxiway at Roswell International Air Center in Roswell, New Mexico, Wednesday, Sept. 4, 2019. (Tom Fox/The Dallas Morning News/TNS) Boeing agrees to pay $2.5B+ to settle criminal fraud charges over 737 Max Boeing has agreed with the U.S. government to pay just over $2.5 billion to defer prosecution and resolve a charge of “criminal misconduct” in its certification of the 737 Max, the Department of Justice announced Thursday. Of that amount, only $243.6 million, ...