FLINT, Mich. (AP) — Two state regulators and a Flint employee were charged Wednesday with evidence tampering and other felonies and misdemeanors, for the first time raising the lead-tainted water crisis in the Michigan city to a criminal case.
Months after officials conceded that a series of bad decisions had caused a disaster, charges were filed against a pair of state Department of Environmental Quality employees and a local water treatment supervisor and stem from an investigation by the office of Michigan Attorney General Bill Schuette.
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It’s about damn time. Oh, and I am stunned at the related story you posted. What the hell?
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“What the hell?” is right! Mind-boggling news from Tennessee!
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For Flint, the people at the top need to be nailed. I.e., Governor Snyder.
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Agreed. Not that these three underlings aren’t culpable, but this does look like scapegoating by the Snyder Administration.
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