The Trump administration has reached a deal with the aerospace giant Boeing that will allow the company to pay $1.1 billion to avoid criminal prosecution for two deadly crashes of the company’s 737 MAX jet in 2018 and 2019, which together killed 346 people. Under the non-prosecution agreement with the Justice Department, Boeing would pay fines and fund safety improvements while providing an additional $445 million for crash victims’ families, among other measures. The Justice Department says the deal is supported by many victims’ relatives, but some, like Nadia Milleron, say they want to keep pushing for a public reckoning in court. “We have a corporate criminal that committed the deadliest crime in U.S. history,” says Milleron, whose daughter Samya Rose Stumo was killed when Ethiopian Airlines Flight 302, a Boeing 737 MAX, crashed in 2019. “Boeing is continuing to risk people’s lives.” Robert Weissman, the co-president of the consumer rights advocacy group Public Citizen, says the Trump administration’s deal with Boeing is another sign that it’s “soft on corporate criminals.”
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