President Trump’s Justice Department has agreed to let Boeing (BA) out of a criminal trial and guilty plea surrounding two fatal 737 Max 8 crashes. It was a result that some family members of the crash victims didn’t want.

The Trump administration on Friday faced swift backlash to the U.S. Department of Justice's deal to end a felony case against Boeing that stemmed from a pair of 737 MAX passenger jet crashes that collectively killed 346 people in Ethiopia and Indonesia.

The Qatar-Boeing deal is the latest in a series of high-profile aviation agreements signed during Trump’s four-day Middle East visit. Just a day earlier, Saudi Arabia’s sovereign wealth fund inked a $4.8 billion agreement with Boeing, and U.S. Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick announced a $10 billion order from a British airline.

President Trump’s Justice Department is weighing whether to let Boeing (BA) out of a criminal trial and guilty plea surrounding two fatal 737 Max 8 crashes, and some family members of the crash victims are not happy about it.

The company would admit wrongdoing and pay more than $1 billion while escaping prosecution in connection with two crashes that claimed a total of 346 lives.

President Donald Trump on Wednesday signed a series ... The agreements involved a purchasing agreement by Qatar for Boeing aircraft, as well as letters of intent and "joint cooperation" between ...

By Gram Slattery, Andrew Mills, Federico Maccioni and Yousef Saba ABU DHABI (Reuters) -President Donald Trump on Thursday pledged to strengthen U.S. ties to the United Arab Emirates and announced deals with the Gulf state totalling over $200 billion and the two countries also agreed to deepen cooperation in artificial intelligence.

U.S. Senators Elizabeth Warren and Richard Blumenthal urged the Justice Department on Friday to prosecute Boeing (BA) over the 737 MAX criminal fraud case, following reports that the DOJ is in active talks with the company to finalize a non-prosecution agreement (NPA).