Judge Richard Leon in February rejected the government’s $21 million deferred-prosecution agreement between federal prosecutors and a Dutch aerospace firm it accused of illegally selling aircraft navigation parts and components to Iran — a move prosecutors called unprecedented. On Friday, Justice Department lawyers will ask a U.S. appeals court to reverse Leon’s decision, and revive the agreement with a unit of Fokker Technologies Holding BV.
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