They did prosecute someone, which looked to me like a case of throwing an underling out of the bus, but it looks like that person was acquitted by a jury:
Former Boeing test pilot found not guilty of deceiving FAA
A jury in Texas has found a former Boeing test pilot not guilty of deceiving federal regulators about a key flight-control system on the Boeing 737 Max jetliner
exactly, that guy was just a fall guy. If a system / organization is designed such that the fate of something as critical as an aircraft depends on ONE test pilot, that system needs to be re-assessed. All those managers / senior engineers / decision makers should be fired / fined and the worst of them should be put in prison.
Don't you have to break the law to go to prison? Or are we trying to recreate the old comintern and frame fallguys in order to make us feel justice was served when sad things happen.
Most people seem to be giving him the benefit of the doubt that he has cold feet. Personally, I think this was sabotage, he had no intention of buying Twitter in the first place and this was just a ploy to fuck with Twitter.
Doesn't really add up, because he's going to be forced to go through with the deal anyway. I haven't heard a single lawyer with relevant expertise suggest otherwise.
Since that's where we're going to end up, it would be much simpler for him to just cleanly buy Twitter, for whatever purpose he intends.
