Last month, the US Department of Justice (DOJ) issued a statement, promising to attend more closely to the interests of victims when negotiating criminal settlements with corporations. That same day, a federal judge ruled that prosecutors had impinged on the rights of those killed in two Boeing 737 Max crashes. The prosecutors had negotiated a Deferred Prosecution Agreement without first securing the consent of the bereaved families.
Boeing has admitted that two employees were responsible for misleading the Federal Aviation Administration about the workings of the plane’s automated flight-control system, which was to blame for pushing the aircraft into fatal nosedives. The victims’ families, however, argue that the problems extended far beyond a few rogue employees.
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