Re: [DEI woke = going broke...] Inside Boeing's shocking personnel scandals: Drug dealing, love triangle and murder-suicide

On Tue, 19 Mar 2024 21:06:43 -0000 (UTC), "Leroy N. Soetoro"
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>https://nypost.com/2024/03/17/us-news/boeings-shocking-personnel-scandals-
>drugs-affairs-suicide/
>
>Boeing whistleblower John Barnett was found dead in his car with a gunshot 
>wound to his head on the same day he was due to testify against the 
>aircraft manufacturer.
>
>The mysterious incident happened as the company’s stock has nosedived, 
>fueled by a series of incidents including a door plug which flew off a 737 
>MAX 9 operated by Alaska Airlines at 16,000 feet on Jan. 5 and a wheel 
>falling off a 777 jet a few weeks later.
>
>This led the Federal Aviation Administration’s (FAA) to investigate and 
>discover “unacceptable” quality control issues.
>
>While Barnett’s death has raised many eyebrows, it is far from the first 
>incident involving the company’s workers.
>
>Here we take a look back at some of Boeing’s biggest scandals.
>
>2008: Disgruntled worker admits cutting chinook wires over ‘work stress’
>A disgruntled worker at a Boeing plant told a court that he cut about 70 
>electrical wires on a $24 million Chinook military helicopter because he 
>was upset about a job transfer.
>
>Matthew Montgomery, 33, pleaded guilty in 2008 to one count of destroying 
>property under contract to the government.
>
>According to federal prosecutors, Montgomery was working his last shift on 
>the Chinook assembly line May 10, 2008 when he severed about 70 electrical 
>wires running together from the cockpit to the main body of an H-47 
>Chinook.
>
>He was later sentenced to five months in prison and five months in home 
>confinement after telling the judge the tension and tedium of his 
>assembly-line job had gotten to him.
>
>“I know now that a factory environment is not the place for me,” 
>Montgomery said in court.
>
>2011: Feds arrest 23 in Boeing plant drug raid
>Almost two dozen past and then-current employees were arrested in a drug 
>bust at a Boeing plant which makes military aircraft in Pennsylvania, with 
>the charges including selling Oxycontin and fentanyl, officials said.
>
>In a major sting, FBI and Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) agents 
>uncovered the illegal prescription drug distribution ring at the Ridley 
>Park-based factory, leading to indictments against 23 individuals, a joint 
>statement from the agencies said.
>
>“The defendants in this case are accused of diverting controlled 
>substances and selling them to alleged abusers without any medical 
>supervision,” said DEA Acting Special Agent in Charge, Vito Guarino, in 
>2011.
>
>The drugs being sold on site at the facility – which builds aircraft 
>including the H-47 Chinook helicopter and the V-22 Ospre – included 
>fentanyl and oxycodone, also known as Oxycontin.
>
>Boeing had brought its suspicions of drug activity to federal law 
>enforcement and the Justice Department said it had cooperated fully with 
>the long-term investigation.
>
>FBI agents used Boeing employees to cooperate in the probe, and those 
>charged were accused of either selling drugs to FBI cooperators or buying 
>placebo drugs from them, officials said.
>
>Boeing commended the U.S. agencies for their “rigorous and thorough 
>investigation.
>
>All 23, including a union chief, had all pleaded guilty by August 2012, 
>according to a report in the Philadelphia Enquirer.
>
>2014: Boeing workers claim coke and meth used while on the job
>In a damning 2014 video clip, several Boeing employees claimed colleagues 
>were on hard drugs including cocaine and meth while they worked, and 
>raised concerns about the safety of the 787 Dreamliner aircrafts.
>
>Current and retired Boeing employees discussed their worries about quality 
>control with news service Al Jazeera’s investigative TV segment “Broken 
>Dreams: The Boeing 787”.
>
>On a video secretly taken at the plant by a worker and leaked to the 
>network, one Boeing employee said he has seen “people talking about doing 
>drugs, looking for drugs”, specifically marijuana, cocaine and 
>prescription painkillers.
>
>In the footage, he records one man saying: “It’s all coke and painkillers” 
>at the plant, adding, “you can get weed here, you can get some really good 
>weed here”.
>
>Another, who spoke on condition of anonymity, complained that Boeing 
>“don’t drug test nobody”, adding that “there’s people that go out there on 
>lunch and smoke one up”.
>
>In a statement at the time, Boeing said: “Drug testing of employees is 
>done in accordance with Boeing … Boeing thoroughly investigates any 
>employee reports of policy deviation, and appropriate corrective action is 
>taken if needed.”
>
>Using the hidden camera, the worker filmed 15 colleagues inside the Boeing 
>South Carolina plant assembling the 787 Dreamliner and asked if they would 
>fly on the plane. Ten said they would not, according to Aljazeera.
>
>“I wouldn’t fly on one of these planes,” one worker tells him, “because I 
>see the quality of the f—g s–t going down around here”.
>
>In a statement, Boeing said: “787 airplanes … meet the highest safety and 
>quality standards that are verified through robust test, verification and 
>inspection processes.”
>
>2022: Boeing blamed for murder-suicide of colleagues in love triangle
>Boeing’s failure to act after learning two of its employees were involved 
>in love triangle with their supervisor resulted in one of the employees 
>murdering his co-worker, according to a lawsuit filed in 2022.
>
>The estate of former Boeing employee Isaiah Washington, 28, filed the 
>Boeing negligence lawsuit after he was fatally shot on the street by co-
>worker Ralph O’Connor, 44, who then killed himself.
>
>In January this year, the company argued the employees were not on the 
>clock when the murder occurred, in a bid to have the case tossed.
>
>According to the King County Medical Examiner, Washington was shot several 
>times, and O’Connor then shot himself.
>
>The lawsuit alleges both men had been in sexual relationships with Boeing 
>supervisor Rachel Pettit, leading to threats from O’Connor against 
>Washington.
>
>Boeing was made aware of the threats and O’Connor’s history of threatening 
>behavior, according to the lawsuit.
>
>Lawyers for Boeing said O’Connor left the company after it learned of 
>messages he had sent, including one where he told coworkers he wanted to 
>“pull the trigger”.
>
>In their motion asking for the lawsuit to be dismissed, the company said: 
>“the complaint contains no allegations suggesting that Boeing knew or 
>should have known that O’Connor might kill or harm someone other than 
>himself.”
>
>The civil case has yet to be resolved.
>
>2024: FAA finds ‘multiple instances’ of quality control issues in audit
>The FAA’s six-week audit of Boeing’s 737 MAX manufacturing processes 
>faulted numerous company processes, including mechanics at one of its key 
>suppliers using a hotel key card and dish soap as makeshift tools to test 
>compliance, according to a report.
>
>The FAA discovered “unacceptable” quality control issues during an audit 
>of Boeing and supplier Spirit AeroSystems that was launched after a door 
>plug flew off a 737 MAX 9 at 16,000 feet on Jan. 5.
>
>Boeing failed 33 out of 89 product audits — a review of specific aspects 
>in the production line — with a total of 97 counts of alleged 
>noncompliance, the auditors found.
>
>“We have a clear picture of what needs to be done. Transparency prevailed 
>in all of these discussions,” Boeing said in a statement following the 
>FAA’s probe.
>
>Last Tuesday, the company revealed it is adding weekly compliance checks 
>for every 737 work area and additional audits of equipment to reduce 
>quality problems, in a memo to employees.
>
>2024: Whistleblower found dead in mysterious circumstances
>John Barnett, a 62-year-old longtime Boeing employee who went public with 
>safety concerns about the 787 Dreamliner, died a day after sitting for a 
>deposition with the company’s lawyers on March 9 this year.
>
>His lawyers raised the alarm after he failed to show up for a deposition 
>in Charleston, South Carolina. 
>
>A coroner’s report preliminarily said he died from a “self-inflicted” 
>wound, but the Charleston Police Department is still making inquiries.
>
>A “close family friend” of Barnett, who gave her name only as Jennifer to 
>ABC News 4 claimed he had told her not to believe any reports of his 
>suicide before his death.
>
>She claimed he had insisted “I ain’t scared” before adding “but if 
>anything happens to me it’s not suicide.”
>
>Jennifer told the program she believes somebody “didn’t like what he had 
>to say” and wanted to “shut him up”.
>
>Those claims have not been verified and there is no suggestion of Boeing 
>being involved in any foul play.
>
>Boeing also released a statement, saying: “We are saddened by Mr. 
>Barnett’s passing, and our thoughts are with his family and friends.” 
>
>Barnett’s lawyers, Robert Turkewitz and Brian Knowles, are also 
>suspicious.
>
>They said in a statement: “John was a brave, honest man of the highest 
>integrity.
>
>“He cared dearly about his family, his friends, the Boeing company, his 
>Boeing co-workers, and the pilots and people who flew on Boeing aircraft. 
>We have rarely met someone with a more sincere and forthright character.”
>
>The investigation into his death is ongoing and sources previously told 
>The Post police had dusted his car for fingerprints inside and out, a 
>highly unusual move in suicide cases.
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