The Justice Division instructed kin of among the 346 individuals who died within the 2018 and 2019 crashes in regards to the plea supply throughout a video assembly, in response to Mark Lindquist, one of many attorneys representing households who’re suing Boeing, and one other one who heard the decision with prosecutors.
Throughout the assembly, relations expressed anger that prosecutors wished to supply Boeing an opportunity to plead responsible to a 3-year-old cost as an alternative of pursuing further expenses and a trial. One mentioned the prosecutors have been gaslighting the households; one other shouted at them for a number of minutes when given an opportunity to talk.
“We’re upset. They need to simply prosecute,” mentioned Massachusetts resident Nadia Milleron, whose 24-year-old daughter, Samya Stumo, died within the second of two 737 Max crashes. “They’re saying we will argue to the decide”.
Prosecutors instructed the households that if Boeing rejected the plea supply, the Justice Division would search a trial within the matter, they mentioned.
Boeing declined to remark.
