Michigan Attorney General Bill Schuette on April 20 announced that he filed a total of 13 felony charges and five misdemeanor charges against two state officials and one city official as a result of their actions in the Flint water contamination crisis now gripping the city. Busch had been on paid leave under civil service rules.
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Other charges also were lodged against Busch and Prysby, who have pleaded not guilty.
The Republican governor told a news conference in the capital, Lansing, later on Wednesday that he did not believe he had done anything criminally wrong in relation to the water crisis. Some Flint residents want to see those at higher levels of state government held accountable, including Gov. Rick Snyder. “The residents of Flint continue to await a date when they will know safe drinking water will flow through their pipes, and they continue to await an answer to the question of who will provide the required resources to assist their children for the rest of their lives”.
■”Pose an increased risk of disinfections by-product (carcinogen) exposure to public health”.
City employees were involved in treating water at the Flint Water Treatment Plant as well as in testing residents’ water for the state.
Glasgow is charged with tampering with evidence and willful neglect of duty, said CNN on Thursday. It was the lack of that treatment that led to the drinking water crisis. Testing is to be conducted at Tier 1 sites, houses that are served by lead lines.
Peter Cassell is with the Environmental Protection Agency. But the water wasn’t treated to control corrosion.
But Busch told EPA in an email that Flint had “an optimized corrosion control program” in place.
State officials were slow to respond to experts’ and residents’ concerns. Michigan’s DEQ has since acknowledged Prysby misinterpreted federal guidelines on preventing lead and copper pollution. If so, it was a stagnated sample as part of the sampling protocol. Michigan Attorney General Bill Schuette chargedBusch, 40, with three counts of felony and two misdemeanors, Prysby, 53, faces fourfelony charges and two misdemeanor charges, and Glasgow, 40, one felony and onemisdemeanor.
Theoretically, the lawyers said Schuette or the special prosecutor could go after higher-level officials including Snyder for “misconduct in office” during Flint’s lead crisis but they said it would be a challenge for prosecutors the more removed the official was from day-to-day decisions.
Because Flint was under financial control of the state, city officials were not the decision-makers leading up to the crisis, though many have criticized them for not speaking up sooner or alerting the public to the consequences of the state’s bad decisions.
Mike Glasgow works for the city. We will make them as carefully and consistently as we can. On February 11, 2016 I would have had two babies if I hadn’t miscarried drinking the contaminated water. What happened? To save money, the state switched Flint’s water supply in 2011 from Lake Huron to the notoriously filthy Flint River.
Nutritious food can limit the effects of lead exposure.
In 2015, Glasgow seemingly admitted to shortcomings in the way samples were collected when confronted by an interviewer with ACLU-Michigan. “If they have to go to the top, that’s what they should do”, Chatman said.
“Where it becomes hard is if it is not clear what that person’s obligations were”, Henning said.
“They failed MI families”. Specifically, these two state employees were brought under felony charges: two counts of office misconduct; one, tampering with evidence; and one, conspiracy to tamper with evidence.
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Reporter: Now facing felony charges, MI department of environmental quality supervisor Stephen Busch and engineer Michael prysby, and city of Flint water quality supervisor Michael Glasgow.
