Washington - According to lawyers Family members of the crash victim Meeting with prosecutors on Friday.

Boeing last year agreed to deceive regulators in two 737 Max Jets crashes in 2018 and 2019, killing 346 people. But it's a federal judge Denied the proposed plea agreement.

Now, the Justice Department is weighing another agreement that will allow Boeing to avoid criminal prosecution. The company will agree to a non-crime settlement that includes a $444.5 million crash victim fund.

Lawyers for some family members said they were angry at the proposed agreement and said they planned to fight it in court.

“It’s not justice,” Erin Applebaum, a lawyer for Credler and Credler, said in a statement. “It’s a behind-the-scenes deal dressed as a legal process, and it conveys a dangerous message: In the United States, wealthy people can buy out of accountability.”

The Justice Department did not respond to a request for comment. A Boeing spokesman declined to comment.

Boeing has agreed to plead guilty to a conspiracy to deceive its planes’ safety, according to the last deal announced last year. But Texas' U.S. District Court Judge Reed O'Connor opposes Boeing and the Justice Department's careful selection of independent monitors, insisting that the court should play a bigger role.

The acting head of the Justice Department’s fraud division said that according to a family member lawyer, no final decision has been made.

"We hope this strange plan will be rejected by department leadership," said Paul Cassell, a law professor at the University of Utah. In a statement, his clients also urged Judge O'Connor to reject this agreement, too.

"Disappearing the case would humiliate the memories of 346 victims who killed Forlin through their ruthless lies," Kassel wrote.