WOEING: Boeing plea deal related to Max crashes rejected by judge. “[Judge] O’Connor had problems with the idea that the Justice Department, not the court, would have approval over the selection of the monitor and how Boeing had performed under an earlier settlement with the Justice Department in January 2021 over the same charges. That agreement had deferred prosecution until the safety issues were again raised by a door plug blowing off a 737 Max plane flown by Alaska Airlines in January.”

I’d have problems with today’s Justice Department, too.