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Sam Ogozalek

South Carolina, Washington, D.C., United States

Transportation Reporter at POLITICO

Transportation reporter @politico. Previously @TB_Times and @islandpacket.

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  • 1 week ago | politico.com | Sam Ogozalek |Oriana Pawlyk

    With help from Chris Marquette— Bryan Bedford, the FAA administrator nominee, doesn’t hold a license to fly aircraft commercially, records show — but his official biography long said he was “rated” to do so. — Urgent checks of Boeing Dreamliners in India have begun, and authorities recovered a black box from the passenger jet that crashed in the country last week, killing more than 200 people. — The Senate Finance Committee is expected to drop some of its reconciliation text today.

  • 1 month ago | politico.com | Sam Ogozalek

    With help from Oriana Pawlyk— The Justice Department announced a non-prosecution agreement with Boeing in an ongoing fraud conspiracy case tied to deadly crashes in Indonesia and Ethiopia. — The Army wrapped up an internal review after an early May incident in which a Black Hawk helicopter near the Pentagon caused go-arounds for two commercial jets.

  • 1 month ago | politico.com | Oriana Pawlyk |Sam Ogozalek

    Under last year’s plea agreement, Boeing would have pleaded guilty to a felony of conspiracy to defraud the government, paid a total of $487 million in fines and subjected itself to an independent third-party monitor, among other provisions.

  • 1 month ago | yahoo.com | Oriana Pawlyk |Sam Ogozalek

    The Justice Department announced an agreement Friday to end its felony case against Boeing for the plane-maker’s role in two passenger jet crashes that killed a total of 346 people in Indonesia and Ethiopia — less than a year after the company agreed to plead guilty as part of a deal with the Biden administration. In return, Boeing must spend over $1.1 billion on fines, safety improvements and compensation for families of the people who died in the crashes in October 2018 and March 2019.

  • 1 month ago | politico.com | Sam Ogozalek

    With help from Oriana Pawlyk— Elon Musk’s cost-cutting squad claims to have canceled leases for DOT subagencies across 20 states and Puerto Rico. “It’s part of the chaos,” an FTA employee said. — Boeing and the Justice Department have discussed a possible nonprosecution agreement to avoid a June trial in a fraud case tied to the 2018 and 2019 737 MAX crashes. — Buckle up: The House GOP is facing down a (self-imposed) crunch time for its megabill. Here’s the state of play.

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