Social Second Boeing Whistlerblower Dead in Less Than Two Months

[aerius]

Lmfao.

Why would you admit that? Why?

Like even if you didn't kill the whistleblowers, but have taken retaliating measures. Why would you admit this right now?

That's a good question. Even OJ Simpson waited until after he was cleared before writing & publishing "If I Did It..."

 

[Ruprecht]

I do believe the first guy was almost certainly killed. It doesn't mean it was Boeing as a corporation or the CEO per se either, im sure there are many people there that wanted him dead. This second guy though died of an infection caused by MRSA. That's not really a plausible assassination method

I'm skeptical without any actual evidence. Of course if anyone's going to be killing whistleblowers over profits, you'd expect it to be the military industrial complex, but the fact that it fits my world view means I'm more careful about the requirement for evidence, not less. We haven't got witnesses, suspects or calling cards like polonium or dioxin poisoning. Yet.

 

[Blayt7hh]

I'm skeptical without any actual evidence. Of course if anyone's going to be killing whistleblowers over profits, you'd expect it to be the military industrial complex, but the fact that it fits my world view means I'm more careful about the requirement for evidence, not less. We haven't got witnesses, suspects or calling cards like polonium or dioxin poisoning. Yet.

For the “suicide guy”, I’m pretty convinced. He had dedicated his life to whistleblowing on them. I find it incredibly hard to believe he would kill himself while at the trial before it concluded.

 

[LeonardoBjj]

Boeing is just too big to jail​

By Robert Cyran

NEW YORK, June 24 (Reuters Breakingviews) - Justice isn’t always blind. When it comes to levying punishments on powerful companies, the challenge is to inflict enough pain that bad behavior is deterred, but not so much that it creates unintended suffering elsewhere. Boeing (BA.N), opens new tab, an American icon in a heap of trouble, exemplifies that quandary.

Prosecutors are recommending that the Department of Justice bring criminal charges against the $104 billion aviation company, according to sources cited by Reuters, for breaching the terms of its deferred prosecution agreement. After two crashes killed 346 people, Boeing agreed in 2021 to a three-year settlement, opens new tab that shielded it from criminal prosecution, but in which it admitted former employees had misled regulators, pledged to do better, and paid $2.5 billion.

The government says Boeing has failed to live up to its side of the bargain. Boeing disagrees.

There’s a problem, though. Boeing is a national champion with a big economic footprint, and that could limit the amount of pain the government is able to inflict. For example, commercial aviation is essentially a duopoly shared between Boeing and its European rival Airbus (AIR.PA), opens new tab. It’s also the nation’s single largest exporter, with over $30 billion of foreign revenue in 2023.

And what hurts the U.S. aircraft-maker also hurts numerous small subcontractors who supply Boeing planes’ parts. Customers like Southwest Airlines (LUV.N), opens new tab, already reeling from delayed jet deliveries, might see their problems worsen.

One of the biggest threats of a prosecution for a company like Boeing – debarment from government contracts – is also hard to enforce. Consolidation has already left too little competition in the sector, and over a third of the company’s $78 billion of revenue last year came from government contracts. Past guilty pleas, opens new tab by Boeing, including for felonies, opens new tab, did not stop the company from quickly getting back on the government-contract gravy train. In 2003, for example, the Air Force suspended some of the company’s units from winning work, but granted two waivers to the Boeing units for space and rocket contracts. Then there are fines. Those hurt, but not much for a company that has already lost around $100 billion of market capitalization in the past five years.

Boeing could find itself subject to more mundane punishments, like the appointment of “monitors” who sit in the companies’ offices and report back to regulators, something imposed on banks in the past for money-laundering slips, for example. Such scrutiny might have an effect, since the company, and its outgoing CEO Dave Calhoun, haven’t been able to fix various self-inflicted problems. Prosecutors will hope so anyway. Creating a national champion is hard; bringing one to heel is harder.

https://www.reuters.com/breakingviews/boeing-is-just-too-big-jail-2024-06-24/

 

[cooks1]

Unless you are James Bond, no can defend.