Explainer: How a Boeing Plea Deal Could Affect the Planemaker

The U.S. Justice Department will criminally charge Boeing with fraud over two fatal crashes and is offering the planemaker the option to plead guilty or face a trial. The proposed deal follows a Justice Department finding in May that Boeing breached a 2021 agreement that had shielded it from prosecution over fatal crashes in 2018 and 2019 that killed 346 people. Franklin Turner, Co-Chair of McCarter’s Government Contracts & Global Trade Practice, spoke with Reuters about the about the deal and said that “In the world of government contracting, an indictment or finding of criminal liability can have a significant impact on a company.”