A federal judge in Texas has set a June trial date for the U.S. government’s years-old conspiracy case against Boeing for misleading regulators about the 737 Max jetliner before two of the planes crashed, killing 346 people. U.S. District Judge Reed O’Connor did not explain in the scheduling order he issued on Tuesday why he decided to set the case for trial. Lawyers for the aerospace company and the Justice Department have spent months trying to renegotiate a 2024 agreement that called for Boeing to plead guilty. The judge rejected that deal in December, saying the Justice Department’s diversity policies might influence the selection of a monitor to oversee Boeing’s compliance with its sentence.
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