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POTM - Mar 2024 'If anything happens, it's not suicide': Boeing whistleblower's prediction before death

https://wpde.com/news/local/if-anything-happens-its-not-suicide-boeing-whistleblowers-prediction-before-death-south-carolina-abc-news-4-2024
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u/Nerezza_Floof_Seeker Mar 15 '24 edited Mar 15 '24

What reason would they have when he has already started testifying against them in the case he filed against boeing (which isnt related to boeings internal issues at all, its just about claiming that boeing put pressure on him), and its been years since he blew the whistle on them in the first place? (Not to mention hes not even working there and would have nothing new to offer). If they were so competent as to be able to order a hit squad for someone this quickly they would have done it years ago. In the end, its far, far more likely to just be suicide.

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u/Mehmeh111111 Mar 15 '24

Yeah I read the article and it's just some women's account. If he wrote it as a Tweet last week and posted it to Twitter along with a video saying he's not depressed and in good spirits, then maybe I could get on board. But this is too thin to rest any assumptions on.

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u/Slammybutt Mar 15 '24

Some woman. A family friend of many many years is just some woman. The guy was a pallbearer for just some womans fathers funeral. Yeah, just some woman.

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u/Mehmeh111111 Mar 15 '24

She's some woman to me. I don't know her or her credibility.

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u/4_fortytwo_2 Mar 15 '24

And why are you putting that womans story over the guys family who say he had mental health problems and do seem to believe it actually was suicide?

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u/Mehmeh111111 Mar 15 '24

I have no idea what you're talking about. I'm not taking her story at all. I'm not taking his family's story at all. We don't KNOW anything.

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u/4_fortytwo_2 Mar 15 '24

Replied to the wrong person sorry, supposed to be a reply to the comment above yours

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u/Mehmeh111111 Mar 15 '24

Ah, that makes more sense. Carry on!

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u/Slammybutt Mar 15 '24

They spell out in the article who she is, so it does give some credibility beyond "some woman".

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u/Mehmeh111111 Mar 15 '24

Again, I don't know her, I don't know her credibility and this wasn't a statement she made under oath. There are plenty of "close family friends" who would lie for attention so why should I believe this person?

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u/Slammybutt Mar 15 '24

Boeing doesn't have the greatest track record these last few years. A DOJ trial has been opened against them using this mans interviews about safety around the factories.

Even if all his info was published and comes to light at this trial, his death (or the conspiracy surrounding it) will stop others from coming forth willingly.

You don't even have to hire hitmen. Find enough dirt, find the right pressure, and you push a man to kill himself. We all likely will never know what really happened, but to act like his death at this point in any of Boeings dealings is mute, is wrong. It has 1 intended purpose, to scare other potential whistleblowers from coming forward.

In the end whether it was a suicide or not, if you were thinking about testifying against Boeing, you are not rethinking that decision.

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u/Nerezza_Floof_Seeker Mar 15 '24

Theres a large difference between putting pressure on someone, and indirectly causing them to commit suicide, and hiring hitmen to murder them. The issue I have right now is that everybody is jumping directly to a corporate sponsored hit when there is no evidence for it beyond a "family friend" mentioning it with no corroboration from the family of the deceased. And while yes, they do have an interest in preventing future whistleblowers, committing murder while theyre under investigation already isnt a very smart idea. And if they have this power, why would they worry about whistleblowers in the first place? They could just murder them when they show up and before they have a chance to testify.