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Snyder attorney says he was charged in wrong county, will ask for Flint water charges to be dismissed
Updated Jan 19, 2021;
Posted Jan 19, 2021
Former Gov. Rick Snyder stays silent as barrage of media asks questions after his video arraignment on charges related to the Flint water crisis on Thursday, Jan. 14, 2021 outside the Genesee County Jail in downtown Flint. (Cody Scanlan | MLive.com)
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FLINT, MI Attorneys for former Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder say they will ask for Flint water criminal charges against him be dismissed because he was charged in the wrong county.
Snyder was charged last week with two misdemeanor counts of willful neglect of duty related to the water crisis after indictment by a one-man grand jury.
Former governor Rick Snyder charged over role in Flint, Michigan water poisoning
Almost seven years after the crime began, Michigan’s Flint Water Prosecution Team announced indictments Thursday of nine state officials for their roles in the poisoning of the city’s population and then covering up the dangerous condition of the water. Flint has become known around the world for the odious crime carried out against the population in which its most basic necessity clean water was replaced with water laced with lead, sickening residents and resulting in numerous deaths.
Most significant in the indictments is that of former governor Rick Snyder who faces two willful neglect of duty charges, misdemeanors with potential sentences of one year each and/or a $1,000 fine. The limited charges fly in the face of Flint residents who consider him chiefly responsible for the suffering they are still enduring. Snyder was governor when the switch over to Flint River water was made in 2014. His ad
Sincere Smith, one of Hawk’s six children, was the boy who appeared on the cover of Time Magazine at age 2 in 2016 as national outrage grew over the crisis.
Former Gov. Rick Snyder charged with willful neglect of duty in Flint water crisis
Updated Jan 13, 2021;
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The charges show up in an online case search for Genesee County District Court records.
The record, filed Wednesday, Jan. 13, shows an offense date of April 25, 2014, which was the month that Flint switched from the Detroit public water system to Flint River water. Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel authorized the complaint Jan. 8.
Willful neglect of duty is a misdemeanor punishable by up to one year in prison and a $1,000 fine.
News surfaced Tuesday that Snyder, 62, and others connected to the water scandal, which resulted in elevated lead levels in public water, would be charged criminally for their roles.