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Re:DOJ fines Boeing over $2.5B, charges it with fraud conspi... by Twaway45609 on Friday January 08, 2021 @06:25AM (#25683577)
Compare this to the fine which volkswagen got (6 times more) and prison term for the top managers, having killed 0 people.

Unfortunately US justice is very unfair against foreign corporations.

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Re:DOJ fines Boeing over $2.5B, charges it with fraud conspi... by mft_ on Friday January 08, 2021 @06:39AM (#25683647)
This is a really interesting comparison.

We can’t know the small or incremental damage that VW’s emissions did to people’s health... but at face value, it feels like Boeing’s punishment is an order of magnitude or two too low.

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Re:DOJ fines Boeing over $2.5B, charges it with fraud conspi... by ucha on Friday January 08, 2021 @07:01AM (#25683771)
It has been estimated VW caused 59 early deaths in the US and probably a lot more people got sick etc... so not exactly negligible. However, I agree with the general point of your comment.

https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-9326/10/11/1...

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