By Tyler Durden
By now, most of America probably remembers the Flint, Mich.
water crisis as one of the biggest scandals of the Obama era. But
nearly seven years after the impoverished city’s drinking water
was found to be contaminated, former GOP Gov. Rick Snyder (who was
widely vilified in the press over his involvement in the decisions
that led to the contamination) is reportedly about to face criminal
charges.
The
AP reports that Snyder, his health director Nick Lyon and other
ex-officials from his administration have been told they’re being
charged after a new investigation of the Flint water scandal. The
city’s water, which was mistakenly contaminated with lead due to
an oversight by the state, caused an outbreak of Legionnaires’
disease in 2014-2015 and untold led poisoning.
Snyder has been out of office for two years, but he was governor
when state-appointed managers in Flint switched the city’s water
source to the Flint River in 2014 as a cost-saving measure while a
new pipeline was being built to Lake Huron. The water, however, was
not treated to reduce corrosion, which turned out to be a
disastrous decision, as lead leached from old pipes and found its
way into the water drank by 100K residents. Meanwhile, bacteria in
the water was blamed for legionnaires.
Progressive media latched on to the scandal and transformed
Flint into a symbol of governmental mismanagement, as well as an
example of how poorer communities of color are treated compared
with wealthier, mostly white communities.
Snyder and Lyon announced the Legionnaires’ outbreak and the
contamination issue in January 2016, although Lyon conceded that he
knew that cases were being reported many months earlier. In 2018,
Lyon was preparing to stand trial on involuntary manslaughter
charges after a special prosecutor accused him of failing to timely
inform the public about the outbreak in a timely manner. His
attorneys argued there was not enough solid information to share
earlier. But by June 2019, the prosecution had been thrown out as a
new attorney general, Dana Nessel, and a new team of prosecutors
said they would start the investigation anew.
The looming charges are apparently the result of this second
investigation.
Source:
Zero Hedge
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