Former Boeing Employee Found Dead Days After Testifying Against Corporate Giant

A whistleblower against Boeing allegedly took his own life after testifying against the company recently, but his friends and family don’t believe this story at all. Something definitely smells rotten about this. Mike Papantonio is joined by Farron Cousins to talk about this.

Order a copy of Mike Papantonio's new book, "Suspicious Activity" at

Check out our merch by visiting our store

Subscribe to our podcast

Become a member today!

Support us by becoming a monthly patron on Patreon, and help keep progressive media alive!

Spread the word! LIKE and SHARE this video or leave a comment to help direct attention to the stories that matter. And SUBSCRIBE to stay connected with Ring of Fire's video content!

Support Ring of Fire by subscribing to our YouTube channel

Be sociable! Follow us on:

*This transcript was generated by a third-party transcription software company, so please excuse any typos.

A whistleblower against Boeing allegedly took his own life after testifying that the company recently had made a lot of mistakes. His friends and his family, they don't believe this story. Something's definitely wrong about this story. I've got Ring of Fire's Farron Cousins with me to talk about it. Farron, we've been doing media now together 20 years.

20 years.

20 years. And we've seen these stories and I've heard you say from time to time, this is a story made for a movie, isn't it? Talk about it.

Oh, 100%. You have this whistleblower 32 year former employee at Boeing, John Barnett. And Mr. Barnett was testifying, had been working against the company, basically as a whistleblower saying, listen, you've got doors flying off their airplanes right now. You've got other pieces of planes falling apart in the air. And it's because they were using faulty materials. They would take the materials he testified from scrap yards, they would take it from junk piles and they knew that it was not up to par, but they've stuck it on the planes anyway. And so after telling the investigators this, after cooperating against the company, he's found dead in his truck in a Holiday Inn parking lot. The day he testified. And the gun was in his hand. His finger was still on the trigger. Uh, but he had somehow still put a bullet through his temple.

Okay. Look, call on it. It is.

I mean, there's no way.

If the FBI doesn't do their job here, and they won't, by the way, they will not do their job. This has got too big of political ramifications. This goes all the way, all the way up the chain of command. This is something to where, if you look at this guy's history, there's never been a sign at all. He's never had counseling. He's never said to his wife, gee, I can't take it anymore. I'm gonna kill. There's no sign of it at all. But the sign is this, Boeing is under so much pressure right now. There's never been a time in history, I dunno if you saw this, never a time in aviation, anywhere in the world where you've had this many failures by the same company. Now, what they try to say is, well, it's the subcontractors. Right? Subcontractors aren't doing their job. Tell the viewers why that's nonsense.

Yeah. This guy worked at the Boeing factory in Charleston. And he said, no. What happened was they brought in new teams a couple years ago, shortly before he retired. And these teams were nothing but the good old boys. They all came from the same former factory. They were all buddies, he testified. And so when they came in, the safety and the inspections kind of went out the window, which we have seen, my God, with every industry we've ever had to talk about. They bring in their own special guys. No more inspections, no more safety, no more following regulations. And that is exactly, based on what he said, what was taking place here.

It's hiding by subcontractors. That's what it is. You say, look, we brought these people in. They didn't do their job. Well, the subcontractor was set up not to do their job. They're handpicked trolls that come in. They give Boeing cover. When Boeing is asked a question, why the hell did your windshield shatter? Why did your door fall off? Why did your wheel fall off? Well, you know, we gotta count on subcontractors. This is all, Boeing is making more money right now than they can spend. Okay. The profits are staggering. You know who helped them get there?