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In response to
"apparently $243m is the price in Merrick Garland's DOJ for two 737 Maxes full of dead bodies -- (link)"
by
hollywood big shot
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Kind of? It's an additional $243.6 million fine for the criminal prosecution that Boeing was originally not charged with in lieu of
Posted by
JD (aka Jason Dean)
Jul 8 '24, 11:12
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being fined for defrauding the government: $243.6 Million fine as well as paying $1.77 billion to carriers who couldn't fly Maxes and $500 million to be paid to the families of those killed in the crashes.
So now criminally (all the definitions seem to apply) they've been fined the rather coincidental $243.6 million
And yes, at list prices, that doesn't even cover the cost of the planes
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