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A federal choose has ordered Boeing to seem in federal court docket in Texas subsequent week for an arraignment on a fraud cost involving the certification of the 737 MAX.
Boeing and the US authorities in 2021 entered right into a deferred prosecution settlement on this case with out the participation of relations of the 737 MAX crash victims, who then argued to the court docket that they need to have been allowed to take part within the case below a federal crime sufferer legislation. In October, the choose sided with them.
In Thursday’s ruling, Judge Reed O’Connor stated Boeing should seem for an arraignment and that the relations or their attorneys might converse on the continuing.
This authorized course of is separate from the civil motion the victims’ relations filed in opposition to Boeing.
The Clifford Law Office, representing the victims’ relations within the civil go well with, stated in a press release that it’s “rare in US aviation law history that a corporation is arraigned on criminal charges regarding the deaths of plane crash victims.”
In September, Boeing and its former CEO Dennis Muilenburg agreed to pay hefty fines to settle costs from the Securities and Exchange Commission that they misled the general public concerning the security of the 737 Max following two deadly crashes in 2018 and 2019.