The lawsuit accused Boeing of harassing and intimidating the man until he “either gave up or be discredited.”
CHARLESTON, S.C. — The family of a former Boeing quality control manager who police said killed himself after lawyers questioned him for days about his whistleblowing on alleged jumbo jet defects sued the airplane maker Thursday.
Boeing subjected John Barnett to a “campaign of harassment, abuse and intimidation intended to discourage, discredit and humiliate him until he would either give up or be discredited,” lawyers for the family wrote in a wrongful death lawsuit filed in federal court in South Carolina.
Barnett, 62, shot himself March
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