FLINT — A new investigation of the Flint water disaster led to charges against nine people, including former Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder and key members of his administration, who are accused of various crimes in a calamitous plan that contaminated the community with lead and contributed to a fatal outbreak of Legionnaires disease, authorities said Thursday.Nearly seven years after the doomed decision to use the Flint River, pipes at more than 9,700 Flint homes have been replaced and water
Jan 14, 2021
FLINT, Mich. (AP) Two former Michigan health officials were charged Thursday with involuntary manslaughter in the deaths of nine people who got Legionnaires’ disease during the Flint water crisis, as prosecutors revisiting how the city’s water system was contaminated with lead and bacteria also hammered a key adviser to ex-Gov. Rick Snyder with extortion and perjury crimes.
Snyder joined a parade of former state and local officials pleading not guilty in Genesee County courts. He’s facing misdemeanor charges of willful neglect of duty in Flint in a case that was filed Wednesday night, the first governor or former governor in Michigan’s 184-year history to face charges related to time in that office.
Former Gov. Rick Snyder was arraigned Thursday by a Genesee County judge on two misdemeanor charges of willful neglect of duty while his administration oversaw Flint in emergency management that led to the city's lead-tainted water crisis.Appearing on Zoom in a Genesee County jail booth, the one…
Here are nine officials charged in Flint water crisis
A total of nine people many of whom are connected to the state s 2014-15 response to a Legionnaires disease outbreak were charged Thursday by Attorney General Dana Nessel s office in relation to the Flint water crisis.
For three former state of Michigan officials, the charges are new. For the six others, charges have been resurrected after Nessel s office in 2019 dismissed all pending cases authorized by her predecessor, Republican Attorney General Bill Schuette, and started the investigation anew.
Those charged range from a former two-term governor to a Flint public works director, from emergency managers to top state officials. Even a maternal infant health specialist was arraigned.