DOJ Drops Boeing Case: Lives Lost, Profits Saved
So, Boeing, a defense contractor that received over $28 billion in federal contracts in 2022 alone, gets a pass. Families of the 346 victims from the Lion Air Flight 610 and Ethiopian Airlines Flight 302 disasters, which were directly linked to faulty software, were told by a judge that justice 'was not in the public interest.' (Perhaps the multi-billion dollar contracts were?) This isn't about
oversight; it's about deference to corporate power. The pattern repeats: massive corporations with deep government ties avoid criminal prosecution, while regulatory bodies, like the FAA, often appear more like cheerleaders than watchdogs. One might wonder if the 'public interest' is simply defined by what's convenient for the military industrial complex.