US accused of offering Boeing 'sweetheart deal' over fatal crashes

[oefrha]

> The deal it has been offered “appears to be a sweetheart deal”, said Sanjiv Singh, counsel for 16 families of crash victims, citing a request for the Department of Justice to independently appoint a corporate monitor of Boeing, rather that permit the company to nominate its own candidates. “I am stunned that the department deflected our demand and fell back on ‘oh it’s policy’,” he said.

Lol what. With these rampant revolving doors I wouldn’t even trust an “independently appointed” monitor. But allowing them to nominate their own is another level of insanity.

[themadturk]

For once, make the perpetrators hurt. Criminal charges against individual members of company leadership, a multi-billion dollar fine, and some sort of direct supervision of manufacturing operations by the FAA seem like reasonable government responses. The company need not be damaged; it needs a cleansing from the top to change its corporate culture.

[nine_zeros]

US is essentially a corrupt state where the oligarchy plays by a different set of rules than others.

[bamboozled]

Case in point, Trump. Don't worry though, he is going to "drain the swamp". ha

[jqpabc123]

Boeing is the poster child for corporate greed and the effects it can lead to.

[dsabanin]

Did someone really expect US to seriously damage Boeing, one of the few manufacturing companies that still produce in the country?

[LunaSea]

Had some discussions about the infamous corporate corruption trials that the US wages against foreign (mostly EU based) companies.

People here assured me that the US justice system was not leaning heavily on these companies because they were foreign in a bid to tank said companies a trigger a fire sale to an American company.

I was also assured that US companies would get the same treatment. I can't wait to have this fair justice dealt.

[neverminder]

But what would it take? Another crash or two? Boeing is like one of those big supertankers that take forever to change course - even if the iceberg was a kilometre away, there's nothing they could do but ram into it.

[bamboozled]

Also a major defense contractor.