A U.S. judge has set a June 23 trial date in the Justice Department’s criminal fraud case against Boeing, marking a major turn in the ongoing legal fallout from two fatal 737 MAX crashes. Boeing had agreed last year to plead guilty to a criminal conspiracy charge and pay up to $487.2m, but U.S. District Judge Reed O’Connor rejected that deal over concerns about a diversity provision and had given both parties until April 11 to reach a new agreement. That deadline is now void. The case centers on Boeing’s alleged deception of regulators about the MAX’s flight control system.
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