Whatever lawyer or lawyers thought “blame the victimized child” was a good defense strategy need to be disbarred.
“Look, Boeing offed a whistle blower. We can’t do worse than that, right?”
Sorry, but If my employer asked me to defend a p3do and blame a 9-yo instead, I might just have to take that golden parachute. There are plenty of other high-paying corporate law positions out there.
im so glad that this picture exists, because this man will NEVER fucking live this down.
Not only did he commit a heinous crime, but he’s also a fucking dumbass.
Also, i’m shocked they didn’t immediately settle this case. You would think doing anything other than immediately settling this would be corporate suicide.
It sounds like it’s their insurance company that is handling the thing and their first action was to fight instead of settle. If AA really wanted to send the right message to the public with this announced backtracking, they’d have announced that they’d just dropped their previous insurance company in favor of one that’s not completely insane.
the ONLY reason i can assume the started fighting this, was because they didn’t know about the image.
Big fucking mistake it turns out. The only reason i mention settlements is because they’re privately settled and often give people fuck tons of money. The dude would’ve be arrested anyway, so it’s only good PR at the end of the day, since now they likely would have an NDA, but apparently whoever is working for them is a little fucking stupid.
Essentially:
We did don’t know this would become a public interest story in national media
It wasn’t an accident, it was the boilerplate answer corporate lawyers always give.
The problem is that American Airlines needs another TAX PAYER FUNDED BAILOUT so they can hire BETTER lawyers and buy BETTER cameras to spy on little girls peeing! We could take money from EDUCATION and give it to AMERICAN AIRLINES TOILET CAMERA FUND!