And the charges may not be the last.
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“That’s the last contact”, with investigators before Friday, he said.
– Daniel Jaquier (@Roolbreaker1) July 29, 2016Enough with the distractions, Mr. AG-charge Governor Snyder and let’s get this over with.
“There are no targets here”, Schuette said. “We’re just going where the truth takes us”.
Smith’s attorney, Brian Morley, told the Associated Press that he expected she would be vindicated. The state said in a statement Friday that Miller was no longer working for DHHS. They were criminally wrong to do so, and the victims are real people. I don’t understand the lack of compassion.
The Free Press was unable to contact the other defendants.
The criminal charges were filed by Michigan Attorney General Bill Schuette against three employees from the state’s health and environmental departments, the newspaper said.
The Republican attorney general also filed a civil suit against two engineering companies in June that allegedly mismanaged work on the water supply system, potentially exacerbating the 2015 lead crisis. The two environmental department employees, Stephen Busch and Mike Prysby, are awaiting preliminary examinations.
Schuette said Peeler and Scott are still employed with the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services, the MDHHS confirms Miller retired in mid-April. “The result was water was poisoned”. “They had knowledge and ability to stop the problem, but they failed”, Schuette said. Peeler and Scott both work in a “childhood lead poisoning prevention program” for MI. Schuette accused the trio of burying a report that highlighted the lead issue, producing their own “bogus” report, and advising others not to take action in regards to the lead contamination when it should have been required. In addition to allegedly working with Rosenthal on the incorrect Lead and Copper Rule report, Cook, according to Schuette, said water tests were occurring in Flint, when they were in fact not. According to an email, Cook, a specialist with the Department of Environmental Quality’s Community Drinking Water Unit, mentioned the possible need for corrosion-control treatments in Flint during a conversation with a U.S. Environmental Protection Agency official in May 2015.
The river water was not treated for its corrosion content, and lead leaching from outdated fixtures and pipes seeped into the water supply.
The switch to river water also is blamed for an outbreak of Legionnaire’s Disease that is blamed for at least 12 deaths.
“I’ve been involved in thousands of cases”, Flood remarked, “and there hasn’t been a case that has jarred my soul more than this for the lack of caring and the lack of compassion that has affected the citizens of Flint”.
The switch was meant to save money, but instead created a public health crisis that continues more than two years later.
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Despite these concerns, there is still time for more and higher level charges. “Like organized crime, we are working our way up in the DEQ and expanding the scope of investigation”. “There is one system of justice”.
