Embattled aerospace giant Boeing faces a monumental choice: Plead guilty to a felony fraud charge for its role in past deadly plane crashes, or roll the dice on a high-profile trial against the Justice Department.
The company has until Friday to decide.
Both options are potentially fraught. Accepting a plea deal for violating the terms of a 2021 agreement with DOJ would be a black mark for one of the United States’ most important manufacturers and defense contractors, whose factories support thousands of U.S. jobs and whose political arm gives heavily to candidates of both parties.
It would bring hundreds of millions of dollars in fines and could complicate the company’s ability to continue winning contracts with the federal government.
But a trial would spark a potentially damaging discovery process, perpetuate Boeing’s ordeal in the news headlines and produce made-for-TV moments of victims’ families calling for justice. The legal process would drag out well into next year — potentially bringing an unpredictable face-off against a Trump administration DOJ.
Hey! Boeing! There’s a saying that’s popular amongst lawyers—“if you must eat crow, do so while it is fresh.”
The uh, crow is already pretty fucking old. Best to just eat it now before you get it shoved down your throat by the DOJ.
Oh, “hundreds of millions”? Oh Boo Fucking Hoo. They’ll make that back in two goddamned weeks.
These fines are a goddamned joke. Jail the CEOs or just admit the whole thing’s a farce.
The business loss from the media coverage of the trial would lose them a shit ton more than that.
Problem is that we actually need to hold some of the executives that made the catastrophic decisions responsible for those decisions
That isn’t going to happen no matter what
Exactly.
Unlike its planes.
Spicy!!! I don’t really enjoy travel or flying in the first place - it’s mostly the amount of time standing and waiting in the middle of a crowd of people who have nothing to do but wait. But the Boeing (and others) stuff makes it real easy for me to stay home and not waste the money/resources.
I value quality time with my two pups more than travel. Taking a train to somewhere remote and beautiful is not off the menu, though. Marginally better than my experiences on a Greyhound.
Boeing and killed John Barnett
Option C: donate shitloads of cash to Trump’s
legal defense slush fundre-election campaign, then if he wins get him to tell the DoJ to drop the case as an “official act” of the Presidency.DING DING DING WE GOT A WINNER FOLKS!
Who is less popular now, Musk or Boeing?
Yes.
