{"id":283600,"date":"2019-07-22T05:51:20","date_gmt":"2019-07-22T05:51:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=283600"},"modified":"2019-07-22T05:51:20","modified_gmt":"2019-07-22T05:51:20","slug":"boeing-has-friends-in-high-places-thanks-to-its-737-crash-czar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/boeing-has-friends-in-high-places-thanks-to-its-737-crash-czar\/","title":{"rendered":"Boeing has friends in high places, thanks to its 737 crash czar"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The crashes of two Boeing Co. 737 Max jetliners have put the aerospace giant on a perilous course through multiple U.S. investigations. But as it faces off against the government, Boeing will be dealing with a lot of familiar faces.<\/p>\n<p>The myriad personal connections between the U.S. plane-maker and top officials were hinted at when Attorney General William Barr bowed out of a criminal investigation of the plane\u2019s design and certification. Barr cited his past affiliation with Kirkland &amp; Ellis LLP, a longtime legal adviser to Boeing that\u2019s now helping with its defense in the matter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The crashes of two Boeing Co. 737 Max jetliners have put the aerospace giant on a perilous course through multiple U.S. investigations. But as it faces off against the government, Boeing will be dealing with a lot of familiar faces. The myriad personal connections between the U.S. plane-maker and top officials were hinted at when Attorney General William Barr bowed out of a criminal investigation of the plane\u2019s design and certification. Barr cited his past affiliation with Kirkland &amp; Ellis LLP, a longtime legal adviser to Boeing that\u2019s now helping with its defense in the matter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[188,139,130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-283600","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-aviation-live-mint","category-live-mint","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283600","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=283600"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283600\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=283600"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=283600"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=283600"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}