 New today, Boeing will plead guilty to a criminal fraud charge stemming from two deadly crashes of 737 MAX jetliners after the government determined that the company violated an agreement that protected it from prosecution for more than three years. Federal prosecutors gave Boeing the choice this week of entering a guilty plea and paying a fine as part of its sentence or facing a trial on the felony criminal charge of conspiracy to defraud the United States. Prosecutors accused the American aerospace giant of deceiving regulators who approved the airplane and pilot training requirements for it.