Prosecutors meet Boeing, crash victims as July 7 deadline looms, Reuters says

U.S. prosecutors are meeting with Boeing and fatal-crash victims’ relatives as a July 7 deadline looms for the Justice Department to decide whether to criminally charge the planemaker, Reuters’ Mike Spector and Chris Prentice report, citing two people familiar with the matter and correspondence reviewed by the publication. Justice Department officials met with Boeing lawyers on Thursday to discuss the government’s finding that the company violated a 2021 agreement with the department, one of the sources said. That deal, known as a deferred prosecution agreement, had shielded it from criminal prosecution over two 737 MAX crashes in 2018 and 2019 that killed 346 people.