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Eugene

(61,595 posts)
Wed Apr 20, 2016, 11:28 AM Apr 2016

3 Charged With Several Crimes in Flint Water Crisis

Source: Associated Press

3 Charged With Several Crimes in Flint Water Crisis

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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3 Charged With Several Crimes in Flint Water Crisis (Original Post) Eugene Apr 2016 OP
K&R This is disturbing, especially with news on nuclear leaks in Washington state Jeffersons Ghost Apr 2016 #1
...and yet the biggest criminal of them all will walk away... ScreamingMeemie Apr 2016 #2
He will resign eventually malaise Apr 2016 #3
From your lips, to the AG's ear, maiaise! gateley Apr 2016 #11
the AG heaven05 Apr 2016 #18
The AG is worse than Snyder etherealtruth Apr 2016 #19
Like the sergeants of Abu Ghraib went to the stockade for years. Octafish Apr 2016 #7
Makes me SO sad. nt gateley Apr 2016 #10
Exactly. I think we all thought that when we heard the announcement. gateley Apr 2016 #9
K N R-ed Faux pas Apr 2016 #4
Until Snyder is read his rights, I won't be satisfied. Octafish Apr 2016 #5
It's a start, but this needs to go much, much higher up the chain... Blue_Tires Apr 2016 #6
Was bribery in the mix? Spitfire of ATJ Apr 2016 #8
sacrificial lambs heaven05 Apr 2016 #12
Yup, the fish rots from the head TexasBushwhacker Apr 2016 #16
Just listening to Rachel on MSNBC Loki Apr 2016 #13
Article in the National Review blames Dems for Flint louis-t Apr 2016 #14
Thank goodness none of them were wealthy and politically connected. TalkingDog Apr 2016 #15
Good! Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Apr 2016 #17

ScreamingMeemie

(68,918 posts)
2. ...and yet the biggest criminal of them all will walk away...
Wed Apr 20, 2016, 11:34 AM
Apr 2016

While guilty as sin, these people are the replacement prisoners.

gateley

(62,683 posts)
11. From your lips, to the AG's ear, maiaise!
Wed Apr 20, 2016, 01:28 PM
Apr 2016

It's suffocating realizing this is happening in the "greatest country in the world!!!"

How've been, pal?

etherealtruth

(22,165 posts)
19. The AG is worse than Snyder
Wed Apr 20, 2016, 08:05 PM
Apr 2016

OK, Bill Shutte didn't oversee the poisoning of an entire city ... but he "woulda if he coulda"

gateley

(62,683 posts)
9. Exactly. I think we all thought that when we heard the announcement.
Wed Apr 20, 2016, 01:24 PM
Apr 2016

The big boys always skate, ya know?

Octafish

(55,745 posts)
5. Until Snyder is read his rights, I won't be satisfied.
Wed Apr 20, 2016, 12:27 PM
Apr 2016

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.

 

heaven05

(18,124 posts)
12. sacrificial lambs
Wed Apr 20, 2016, 01:30 PM
Apr 2016

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)
16. Yup, the fish rots from the head
Wed Apr 20, 2016, 02:17 PM
Apr 2016

Why would these underlings take it upon themselves to do this evidence tampering?

Loki

(3,825 posts)
13. Just listening to Rachel on MSNBC
Wed Apr 20, 2016, 01:39 PM
Apr 2016

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)
14. Article in the National Review blames Dems for Flint
Wed Apr 20, 2016, 02:09 PM
Apr 2016

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..."

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