Earlier this month, US District Judge Reed O'Connor rejected a plea deal proposed by Boeing and the Department of Justice (DOJ), expressing concern for potential diversity considerations in monitor selection, as reported by the Wall Street Journal.
The deal would have allowed Boeing to plead guilty to a felony conspiracy charge for misleading regulators regarding two fatal 737 Max crashes in 2018 and 2019. O'Connor pointed to the DOJ's citation of a 2021 executive order promoting DEI policies at federal agencies as potentially encouraging "consideration of race in hiring." He said that prosecutors had offered "shifting and contradictory explanations" of the role race and diversity would play in the selection of the monitor.
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