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Boeing: USD 615m paid to Federal Government as fine

New York, USA - The "Wall Street Journal" wrote that yesterday

Yesterday the "Wall Street Journal" reported Boeing made an agreement with US Government on the payment of a fine in compensation for a corruption and embezzlement event involving the American aeronautic industry on contracts with US Defense administration. The fine amounts to USD 615m and it ends a three-year-long Justice administration’s inquiry. Boeing was charged to have illegally behaved against i...

AVIONEWS - World Aeronautical Press Agency - 140911
Rome, Italy, 05/16/2006 11:58
AVIONEWS - World Aeronautical Press Agency

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