Families’ lawyers ask the new Doj Head Bondi to intervene in Boeing Plea Deal | News

A lawyer for passenger relatives killed by two accidents at Boeing 737 Max is urging the new Attorney General of the United States, Pam Bondi, to participate in the negotiation of a statement of guilt of BOEING for charges that defrauded the federal administration aircraft.

The lawyer Paul Cassell sent a letter on February 6 to Bondi, urging any new guilt agreement to recognize the people killed by accidents in 2018 and 2019.

“Families would like to meet you to discuss any new proposed supplication with Boeing,” writes Cassell. “Families are looking for any guilt agreement that the department can offer to Boeing to demand from Boeing to admit the truth: that their criminal conspiracy directly killed 346 people.”

Neither the Department of Justice nor Boeing responded to the requests for comments.

Boeing and the Department of Justice had previously reached an agreement under which Boeing would declare guilty of fraud charges. Cassell and other lawyers representing the victims’ families criticized the Department of Justice for accepting an agreement that did not mention the victims.

In December, however, Judge Reed O’Connor with the United States District Court for the Northern District of Texas eliminated the guilt agreement, citing Concern about the provisions related to “diversity and inclusion.”

Boeing and the Department of Justice have said since then They are renegotiating a supply proposal.

In his letter, Cassell asks Bondi to adopt a new approach, “in contrast to the deceptive way that the previous administration handled this case.”

The United States Senate on February 4 confirmed Bondi as head of the Department of Justice.

Cassell urges the speed of Bondi because Judge O’Connor has given Boeing and the Department of Justice until February 16 to provide the court for a state update.

“Families are concerned that, without their intervention, the fraud section may be preparing to propose a guilt declaration agreement to Judge O’Connor in which Boeing’s role in directly and proximally killing 346 victims is hidden,” , writes Cassell. “If the new guilt agreement is like the previous one, (offensively) it will take the position that Boeing’s crime had no multiple victims.”