June 14 (UPI) -- The Michigan Attorney General has charged the state's health director with involuntary manslaughter in the lead poisoning of Flint's water supply.
Michigan Health and Human Services Director Nick Lyon also faces another felony count: misconduct in office, according to court documents obtained by the Detroit Free Press that Attorney General Bill Schuette filed Tuesday.
Chief Medical Executive Eden Wells was also charged with obstruction of justice and lying to a police officer.
Judge G. David Guinn, in Michigan's 67th District Court, authorized the charges Wednesday morning in Flint.
The charges should be murder and crimes against humanity, but manslaughter is better than nothing. Justice is finally catching up to these sleazy sons of bitches who destroyed my home town.
Michigan health director charged with involuntary manslaughter in tainted Flint water - UPI.com
The charges should be murder and crimes against humanity, but manslaughter is better than nothing. Justice is finally catching up to these sleazy sons of bitches who destroyed my home town.
Michigan health director charged with involuntary manslaughter in tainted Flint water - UPI.com
There are people who committed the act and there are those had to give the approval.
The BUCK STOPS at the TOP!
The charges should be murder and crimes against humanity, but manslaughter is better than nothing. Justice is finally catching up to these sleazy sons of bitches who destroyed my home town.
Michigan health director charged with involuntary manslaughter in tainted Flint water - UPI.com
They certainly made a mess of it, didn't they. Was it public ownership of the waterworks? I don't remember.
The charges should be murder and crimes against humanity, but manslaughter is better than nothing. Justice is finally catching up to these sleazy sons of bitches who destroyed my home town.
Michigan health director charged with involuntary manslaughter in tainted Flint water - UPI.com
It was owned by the City of Flint, but was taken over by the State after Governor Snyder appointed a manager and disbanded the city government. The managers he appointed decided to use the Flint River for city water instead of continuing to get their water from Detroit. Water in the Flint River was so polluted that it leeched the lead out of the pipes and caused the problem.
Top? Wasn't that obama back then?
Top? Wasn't that obama back then?
Presidents aren't in charge of state and local governments. But I have no idea how culpable the mayor or governor might be.
The latest charges reached farther than before into Michigan’s state government, affecting two cabinet-level officials in the administration of Gov. Rick Snyder and leaving open the possibility that the investigation would go higher still.
Nick Lyon, the director of the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services, was charged with involuntary manslaughter and misconduct in office, felonies that could lead to as much as 20 years in prison. Dr. Eden V. Wells, the chief medical executive for the department, was charged with obstruction of justice and lying to a peace officer, and could face up to seven years if convicted. They are among 15 current and former state and local officials facing criminal charges as a 17-month investigation into Flint’s tainted water supply continues.
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Besides, the report found, a solution for Flint’s essential water problem was maddeningly simple, and cheap: The addition of common anti-corrosion chemicals could have cost the financially struggling city only $200 a day.
But officials failed to take that step when they switched the city’s water supply in early 2014, the investigators said, partly to save money. Residents began complaining of puzzling colors, putrid odors and an array of rashes and illnesses, which eventually included Legionnaires’ disease.
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