[virgakwolfw]

> Invoking the Fifth to avoid testifying, while a legal right, is sometimes interpreted as an admission of guilt. Its use to resist a subpoena for documents is less common and may only imply a dance between prosecutors and defense attorneys, legal experts say.

Fifth amendment rights only apply to criminal situations -- so the correct inference is that a former Boeing official believes Boeing's design process for the 737 MAX is criminal, implicating whatever his personal role was in illegal conduct.

This inference may be drawn in civil situations, without violating the rights of the former official -- the Fifth Amendment only applies to criminal prosecutions.

If Boeing can't turn over documentation related to the 737 MAX without revealing criminal conduct, then we should seriously doubt the robustness of their engineering.

Everything designed by Boeing since the 787, designed just after their move to Chicago, has had increasingly poor results -

787: Battery troubles, composite assembly troubles, manufacturing defects in SC.

737 MAX: Killed two flights worth of passengers from poorly designed UX and ignoring standard engineering principles.

777X: The doors blow off.

This is your company on MBAs.