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Source: Associated Press
By DAVID EGGERT, ASSOCIATED PRESS LANSING, Mich. Apr 20, 2016, 11:12 AM ET
Two state regulators and a Flint employee were charged Wednesday with evidence tampering and several other felony and misdemeanor counts related to the Michigan city's lead-tainted water crisis.
The charges the first levied in a probe that is expected to broaden were filed against a pair of state Department of Environmental Quality officials and a local water treatment plant supervisor and stem from an investigation by the Michigan attorney general's office.
Michael Prysby, a DEQ district engineer, and Stephen Busch, who is a supervisor with the DEQ's Office of Drinking Water, were both charged with misconduct in office, conspiracy to tamper with evidence, tampering with evidence and violations of water treatment and monitoring laws.
Flint utilities administrator Michael Glasgow was charged with tampering with evidence for changing lead water-testing results and willful neglect of duty as a public servant.
Busch is on paid leave after being suspended earlier. Prysby recently took another job in the agency. Glasgow testified at a legislative hearing that Prysby told him phosphate was not needed to prevent lead corrosion from pipes until after a year of testing.
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Jeffersons Ghost
(15,235 posts)ScreamingMeemie
(68,918 posts)While guilty as sin, these people are the replacement prisoners.
malaise
(267,838 posts)Watch this space
gateley
(62,683 posts)It's suffocating realizing this is happening in the "greatest country in the world!!!"
How've been, pal?
is republican. nuff said.
etherealtruth
(22,165 posts)OK, Bill Shutte didn't oversee the poisoning of an entire city ... but he "woulda if he coulda"
Octafish
(55,745 posts)The perps walked free.
gateley
(62,683 posts)gateley
(62,683 posts)The big boys always skate, ya know?
Faux pas
(14,584 posts)Octafish
(55,745 posts)If he should offer to turn over the billionaires behind all the privatization since Ronald Reagan first attended Bohemian Grove, I'might agree to put him into a state witness protection program.
Blue_Tires
(55,445 posts)Spitfire of ATJ
(32,723 posts)heaven05
(18,124 posts)to the slaughter has started. And the ONES who are responsible will skate, squirm and eventually be absolved of aaallll wrongdoing. I knew it.
TexasBushwhacker
(20,044 posts)Why would these underlings take it upon themselves to do this evidence tampering?
Loki
(3,825 posts)The water that Governor Rick Snyder is drinking was taken from a tap with the filter. This filter will supposedly eliminate the toxic lead content. I hope it was done on a day when the lead was so high that it won't take it all out
louis-t
(23,199 posts)water crisis. "All Dems fault, poor Snyder was powerless to stop the evil Dems from poisoning the water, they ruined Flint, they ruined Detroit, too...blah, blah, blah..."
TalkingDog
(9,001 posts)/sarcasm