Senator Plans Hearings on Boeing Practices
A senator said he planned hearings on the defense-contracting practices that led Boeing Co. to agree to pay $615 million to end a Justice Department investigation.
Sen. John Warner (R-Va.) said his Armed Services Committee would not limit itself to Boeing but would look into other aerospace contracts with the government.
Chicago-based Boeing was under investigation for three years on allegations that it improperly obtained documents from rival Lockheed Martin Corp. in the late 1990s and used them to help win a government rocket-launching contract.
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