Here’s a big one—A grand jury has indicted Boeing’s chief technical pilot on the 737 MAX launch for defrauding the FAA justice.gov/opa/pr/former-…
They have some receipts.
Notably for the civil plaintiffs’ bar among others, the indictment states that the FAA didn’t learn of the true operating parameters of the MCAS system until 737 MAX planes started crashing overseas. Boeing had never, apparently, corrected the bad info.
Clarification: While the narrative part of the indictment is all about the Boeing official’s alleged intentional deception of FAA regulators, when you get to the statutory counts, the allegations speak to sending fraudulent instruments (reports and invoices) to two airlines.
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Here’s a more representative excerpt of the commission’s treatment of expansion. Still not great, imo.
A blind spot of the report is its elevation of shoring up “the court’s legitimacy” as the main goal of reform, rather than the law’s legitimacy and integrity.
As usual, what’s going on here is that the Trump team is both wrong and trying to stuff it’s adversaries into a fully ass-backwards procedure. Congress needs to, but probably won’t, press forward with the right procedure to bring the matter to a head in time to do its work.
In most cases, you have three valid options when you get a subpoena: you comply fully, you work out an agreement with the issuer where you explain why some things have to be withheld and comply partially, or you get a privilege holder to sue to get the subpoena quashed.
Bannon is trying to carve out a 4th way, writing letters saying that Trump objects so he won’t disclose anything. But Trump hasn’t sued to assert his ‘privilege’ (and may never bc he’ll likely lose). What should happen absent a pending suit is Bannon gets prosecuted for contempt.
I pulled the complaint; it's fascinating. The defendants allegedly mailed a cold overture offering submarine secrets to a foreign govt on April Fools Day, writing in the google-translated cover letter "this is not a hoax." documentcloud.org/documents/2108…
There's a long correspondence between the quite-candid defendants and the undercover FBI counterintelligence agent. It starts out very Burn After Reading and then heads toward a philosophy seminar about the impossibility of trusting one another.
fun to see different news orgs come to different conclusions about whether to call the secrets in question classified or not nytimes.com/2021/10/10/us/…
The Senate Judiciary Committee report on Trump’s subversion of DOJ and the treacherous activities of DOJ official Jeffrey Bossert Clark in the aftermath of the 2020 election is out. judiciary.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/…
They dug up a draft resignation letter the Associate Deputy Attorney General prepared on January 3rd.