Daily News | The engineer of the 2015 Amtrak crash rejected a plea offer as his trial began
The engineer of the 2015 Amtrak crash in Frankford rejected a plea offer Thursday that could have spared him the possibility of spending years behind bars.
Prosecutors have accused Bositan of causing the fatal derailment nearly seven years ago. He accelerated Train 188 to 106 mph — twice the speed limit — before a curve, an action the Attorney General’s Office contends was criminally reckless. McDermott told Bostian Thursday that he’d been offered the opportunity to enter a “no contest” plea to nine counts of reckless endangerment, a close equivalent to pleading guilty. In return, McDermott said, prosecutors would have dropped all other charges, including the lead charge of causing a catastrophe, a felony.
The AG’s Office has not said what sentence they might seek if Bostian is convicted on all counts at trial.
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