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Family of Boeing whistleblower John Barnett accuses company of hounding him before he committed suicide

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John Barnett was a quality control manager at Boeing 's South Carolina plant.

Police say he killed himself after lawyers questioned him for days about his whistleblowing on alleged jumbo jet defects.

" Boeing had threatened to break John , and break him it did," his family says in a wrongful death lawsuit.

Boeing has not yet responded in court filings.

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