Livengood: As Snyder and advisers are charged in Flint catastrophe, executive decision-making is put on trial
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Former Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder testifies March 17, 2016 before the U.S. House Oversight and Government Reform Committee hearing in about Flint's lead-tainted water crisis.
A Genesee County grand jury indictment of Richard Dale Snyder alleges the former two-term governor of Michigan committed the misdemeanor of willful neglect of duty for failing to supervise his underlings during Flint's disastrous water switch in 2014 and 2015.
The first count of the two-count indictment says Snyder shirked his responsibilities as the state's chief executive by "failing to inquire into the performance, condition and administration of the public offices and officers that he appointed and was required to supervise."