US prosecutors meet Boeing, crash victims as criminal-charges decision looms

Justice Department officials met with Boeing lawyers on Thursday to discuss the government's finding that the company violated a 2021 agreement with the department, one of the sources said. 

That deal, known as a deferred prosecution agreement (DPA), had shielded it from criminal prosecution over two 737 MAX crashes in 2018 and 2019 that killed 346 people.

Separately, federal prosecutors are slated to meet with victims' family members on Sunday to update them on the progress of their investigation, according to the second person.