Boeing entered into a deferred prosecution agreement with the Department of Justice to resolve a criminal charge of conspiracy to defraud the Federal Aviation Administration’s Aircraft Evaluation Group (FAA AEG) in connection with the FAA AEG’s evaluation of Boeing’s 737 Max. Boeing admitted that two of its flight technical pilots in 2016 deceived the FAA AEG about the aircraft’s Maneuvering Characteristics Augmentation System (MCAS) by not sharing information about an important change to the system. Boeing paid a total of over $2.5 billion, composed of a $243.6 million criminal penalty, $1.77 billion in compensation to airline customers, and a $500 million crash-victim beneficiaries fund to compensate the heirs, relatives, and legal beneficiaries of the 346 passengers who died in the crashes of Lion Air Flight 610 and Ethiopian Airlines Flight 302.