Boeing to plead guilty to criminal fraud charge stemming from 737 MAX crashes

Re:Boeing to plead guilty to criminal fraud charge stemming ... by krisoft on Monday July 08, 2024 @04:59AM (#40903779)

The way i see it (and here I describe how I think the law should work, not how it works):

If a Boeing engineer has a breakdown and robs a 7-11, the C suite of Boeing is not responsible for that.

If the Boeing engineer murders people in their course of duty because of the incentive structure set up by the C suite then they are responsible for that. How do you prove that? The same way how you prove anything. Lots of discovery which reveals concrete evidence of the C suite setting up and maintaining said incentive structure and then the prosecutorial team describing the connection to a jurry of their peers.

It is the difference between little Jimmy deciding to rob a 7-11 because they are dumb as a rock, vs doing the same because they grown up in an organised crime family.

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Re:Boeing to plead guilty to criminal fraud charge stemming ... by lupusreal on Monday July 08, 2024 @09:35AM (#40905299)

Under this theory I think maybe you could get the C suite for negligent homicide, but murder seems like a huge stretch for anything but a kangaroo court.

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Re:Boeing to plead guilty to criminal fraud charge stemming ... by krisoft on Monday July 08, 2024 @11:06AM (#40906087)

I don't think that I mentioned a specific crime in my comment.

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Re:Boeing to plead guilty to criminal fraud charge stemming ... by amelius on Monday July 08, 2024 @01:03PM (#40907139)

Huh, you mentioned at least robbing and murder.

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