More than a year after the Justice Department announced a $2.5 billion settlement with Boeing which shielded senior executives from prosecution, lawyers for...
Federal prosecutors failed the victims and their families with a ‘sweetheart deal’ that banned prosecution of top executives, says one woman whose husband was aboard a fatal flight.
“This was not justice, and it was a sweetheart deal,” said Naoise Ryan, whose husband, Mick, was killed aboard Ethiopian Airlines Flight 302 in March 2019. “From my point of view, and I think I can speak for all the victims’ families, the Justice Department failed us. They continuously failed us.” “The government’s investigation, however, did not produce evidence that it believed would allow it to prove beyond a reasonable doubt what factors had caused the crashes of Lion Air Flight 610 and Ethiopian Airlines Flight 302,” a court filing from federal prosecutors said.
Naoise Ryan said she has refused money from the settlement and that pursuing the case, while emotionally difficult, isn’t about money. “It’s about justice,” she said.
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