Ticker: No decision on dropping Boeing criminal case; Buffett will be back, but no questions

The U S Justice Department notified a federal judge in Texas it hasn t decided whether to enter into an agreement with Boeing Co that would drop a criminal charge related to two fatal Max crashes and that federal prosecutors are giving the families of casualties another chance to weigh in Leadership lawyers briefed the families for two hours on Friday on a accomplishable framework for a non-prosecution agreement with Boeing but revealed no draft agreement has been exchanged between the company and prosecutors according to a court filing Saturday to U S District Judge Reed O Connor who has been overseeing the long-running criminal proceedings tied to the crashes in and The situation is being closely watched as a bellwether for how the Justice Department under President Donald Trump handles high-profile corporate prosecutions Last year under the Biden administration Boeing agreed to plead guilty to criminal conspiracy and pay a fine but that deal was scrapped by O Connor who objected to parts of the agreement Boeing and the Justice Department have been in talks on a revised agreement Buffett will be back but no questions Billionaire Warren Buffett plans to attend but not take questions at next year s Berkshire Hathaway shareholder meeting a big change following his up-to-date surprise retirement announcement Buffett s handpicked successor Greg Abel informed the Omaha World-Herald that Berkshire plans a shareholder meeting for the first weekend of May that will have a question-and-answer session But Buffett who plans to remain as Berkshire s chairman plans to sit with the conglomerate s board of directors and not be on stage taking questions The annual shareholder meeting attracts certain people to Omaha in what s been dubbed Woodstock for Capitalists