The fine leveied against Boeing for its use of the sic "Gyro remote Q chip" is a fact.

Has Boeing paid the 615 million dollar fine in full? I don't know

It is a HUGE FINE compared to any other (standard corporate practice of "its cheaper to pay the fine" than follow the law means of doing business)

Exxon Valdez was about a 6 million dollar fine.

In any case it is a rhetorical stretch to say this money is equivalent to hush money paid to the judicial system.