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If Boeing accepts the offer, that would avoid a public trial at a time when the company is still Boeing officials have maintained the company “honored” the terms of the settlement and disagreed with prosecutors’ findings.Federal officials shared terms of a potential plea with families on a call on Sunday before taking the offer to Boeing executives. The terms would include Boeing pleading guilty to the fraud charge and accepting a $244 million fine.
“We are upset. They should just prosecute,” Nadia Milleron, whose daughter, Samya Stumo, died in one of the crashes,Paul Cassell, a lawyer representing about a dozen families, said his clients would “strenuously object” to the terms, adding to the Times the victims’ memory “demands more justice than this.” The attorney added he believed the offer was a “sweetheart deal” for the aerospace giant.
The plea offer comes just ahead of a July 7 deadline for the DOJ to file criminal charges in the case. Boeing is expected to have until the end of this week to accept or reject the terms.
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