$500,000?

The New York Times reported last week that Parnas had told associates he paid Giuliani hundreds of thousands of dollars for what Giuliani said was business and legal advice. Giuliani said for the first time on Monday that the total amount was $500,000. Giuliani told Reuters the money came in two payments made within weeks of each other. He said he could not recall the dates of the payments. He said most of the work he did for Fraud Guarantee was completed in 2018 but that he had been doing follow-up for over a year.

It would be fascinating to see Giuliani explain to a prosecutor or congressional committee what kind of work he performed in 2018 and the nature of his follow-up work in 2019.

As for those two346 people.

But the disagree alert could have notified pilots that a sensor was malfunctioning. In both disasters, preliminary investigations suggest faulty data from a malfunctioning angle of attack (AOA) sensor triggered the aircraft's anti-stall software, known as MCAS, which pitched down the nose of the planes as pilots struggled for control.

Boeing says its senior leadership and the Federal Aviation Administration did not know about the issue until after the Lion Air crash.

Neither the FAA nor Boeing interfered with the fleet's operations until the Ethiopian Airlines crash in March 2019, when all 737 Max jets were grounded worldwide, creating financial and logistical problems for three major US airlines.

Why the alert function is important

The AOA disagree alert only worked on an aircraft if the airline had purchased an additional, optional