Boeing DPA Drama Comes To A Close—At Least For Now

Deferred Prosecution Agreements have been viewed for many years as a relatively manageable way for companies to wrap up federal criminal investigations. That may still be true, but any sense of certainty and dependability should have ended with the experience of Boeing Corporation. Boeing’s ordeal began when Boeing 737 Max planes crashed in 2018 and 2019, and it ended (at least for now) in a Fort Worth courtroom in early November, when U.S. District Judge Reed O’Connor of the Northern District of Texas gran ...