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Chicago Sun-Times
Chicago Sun-Times
National
Robert Herguth

Boeing’s misconduct hasn’t stopped Illinois politicians from taking campaign cash from the company

Wreckage from a Boeing 737 MAX that crashed in 2019 in Ethiopia. (AP)

The Boeing Co.’s once-sparkling image has been tarnished in recent years by revelations it hid critical safety information about a model of plane that was involved in deadly crashes in Indonesia in 2018 and Ethiopia in 2019.

In a ruling in October, a federal judge wrote that, “but for Boeing’s criminal conspiracy to defraud” the Federal Aviation Administration, “346 people would not have lost their lives in the crashes.”

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