“There are no targets here”, Schuette said.
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Residents of Flint, Michigan are one step closer to justice in the aftermath of the Flint Water Crisis. Corrine Miller retired from DHHS in April of this year. The other employees facing charges are suspended without pay, it said. “They were criminally wrong to do so”.
“I don’t get it”.
Smith’s attorney, Brian Morley, told the Associated Press that the charge was “disappointing”.
Rosenthal: 1 count misconduct in office (felony: 5 years and/or $10,000); 1 count willful neglect of duty (misdemeanor: 1 year and/or $1,000); 1 county tempering with evidence (felony: 4 years and/or $5,000).
Rosenthal was charged with misconduct in office, conspiracy to tamper with evidence, tampering with evidence and neglect. “The other two state employees charged are no longer with DEQ or MDHHS”, they said.
The charges were authorized by Judge Nathaniel C. Perry II early Friday against three employees, each from the state’s health and environmental departments.
This morning, six employees for the state of MI have been criminally charged in a district court for their connection with the Flint water crisis. “The result was water was poisoned”.
“These individuals concealed the truth”, Mr. Schuette continued. Rosenthal is accused of tampering with evidence to hide lead levels in water.
The former chief of the Office of Drinking Water, Liane Shekter-Smith, allegedly failed to act on complaints about water quality as well as knowledge of a Legionnaires disease outbreak and lead issues.
“Cook, who is the current MDEQ official responsible for complacence with lead and copper monitoring, signed a permit in 2014 that was the last approval necessary for the use of the Flint Water Treatment Plant”. His co-worker Peter Cook allegedly misled the feds about whether corrosion control methods were needed after Flint’s water supply was switched.
The Legionnaire’s component of the water crisis remains a crucial part of the investigation and is forefront in the minds of investigators every day, Flood said.
A state-appointed emergency financial manager was running Flint in April 2014 when the city began using the Flint River to provide its drinking water after nearly 50 years of receiving water supplied by the Detroit Water and Sewerage Department. Authorities had said it was vital to switch the supply to save public money. Perry III authorized the charges Friday. “Like organized crime, we are working our way up in the DEQ and expanding the scope of investigation”.
Other Democrats also called for a focus on higher-ups.
“I sweat the details of policy ― whether we’re talking about the exact level of lead in the drinking water in Flint, Michigan, the number of mental health facilities in Iowa, or the cost of your prescription drugs”, Clinton said. At the time, the Republican attorney general guaranteed others would also be charged.
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“The Attorney General and his team still have not gotten to the root cause of the crisis”.
