>which I assume was a bit of a win-win for everyone: Boeing didn't have to admit fault, the DOJ didn't have to build a painstaking fraud case without a smoking

>which I assume was a bit of a win-win for everyone: Boeing didn't have to admit fault, the DOJ didn't have to build a painstaking fraud case without a smoking gun, and victims got restitution without having to wait for a verdict. Except it isn't a win-win for all the people who want to continue not randomly dying because a bunch of business executives wanted to crank out some extra earnings. Like why is it ever a benefit to anyone that a multi billion dollar company doesn't have to admit fault, it was quite literally their fault. They made the high level decisions which deprioritized safety, and now people are dead. It's only a few levels abstracted from pulling the trigger, and if we had a real functioning society those reasonable would be put in jail like other murderers.