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Prosecutors in the Michigan Attorney General’s office say they will argue a circuit court judge erred when she dismissed criminal charges against seven former public officials.
The prosecution team from the Michigan Attorney General s Office, which is led by Michigan Solicitor General Fadwa Hammoud and Wayne County Prosecutor Kym Worthy, issued a statement Tuesday announcing the
No Flint water crisis attorney has agreed to cap on fees for defending state employees
Updated May 06, 2021;
Posted May 06, 2021
Former Gov. Rick Snyder walks out from the Genesee County Jail alongside his attorney after a video arraignment on charges related to the Flint water crisis on Thursday, Jan. 14, 2021 in downtown Flint. Snyder faces two counts of willful neglect of duty, each a one year misdemeanor and/or $1,000 fine. (Jake May | MLive.com)Jake May | Mlive.com
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FLINT, MI Nearly four months after nine current and former government officials were charged with crimes related to the Flint water crisis, none of their attorneys has agreed to a standardized contract proposed by Gov. Gretchen Whitmer.
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Written by Maureen Cunningham and Olya Egorov
25th February 2021
“We move Heaven and earth,” says Montana Birt. A transplant from Georgia, Birt is a pastor in a local church in Thorp, Wisc., the smallest of cities with a population of just more than 1,600. His more earthly endeavor, however, involves digging up and replacing lead pipes that threaten to poison his neighbors’ water in Thorp and in Eau Claire, Wisc., about 40 miles west.
We met Birt in the course of examining lead service line replacement programs in municipalities across the country. Big cities like Newark
, N.J., or Denver often grab the headlines for their programs, but we set out to learn what smaller municipalities with lead pipes are doing to replace them.