Analysis: How Boeing defrauded the United States and escaped with a ‘slap on the wrist’ | CNN Business

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Boeing faces up to $487 million in fines as part of its anticipated guilty plea to a felony charge related to two fatal crashes of the 737 Max. Critics of the deal, however, are calling it a “slap on the wrist.”

While corporate guilty pleas by companies the size of Boeing are rare, and there are some terms of the plea agreement that Boeing leadership undoubtedly found onerous, the deal does show the limits of corporate criminal charges.

Boeing agreed to plead guilty to a charge that it defrauded the Federal Aviation

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