Boeing Has Four Weeks to Stop Possible Prosecution Over Crashes

Boeing Co. has four weeks to convince the US not to prosecute the company after finding it breached a 2021 agreement protecting it from criminal charges following two fatal crashes.

The US industrial giant faces significant scrutiny by the Justice Department after a string of safety failures. But the government can go only so far in handcuffing the nation’s leading planemaker and key defense contractor.

“If there is any company in the US that’s too big to fail, it’s the Boeing Company,” said Samuel Buell of the Duke University School of Law. “It is unimaginable that ...