Boeing must either plead guilty to felony fraud or go to trial against the US government as the next step in a criminal case stemming from its door panel blowout, according to the latest terms offered to the company by the Department of Justice.
Under the potential plea agreement, the airline would plead guilty to one charge of conspiring to defraud the US and pay a fine of $243.6mn, the second criminal penalty of this size in the case, according to someone familiar with the matter.
The move comes after the DoJ notified Boeing it had breached the deferred prosecution agreement it signed in 2021 in the wake of the fatal Lion Air and Ethiopian Airlines 737 Max crashes.
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