I’ll update with details when I have them.
Just in: Criminal charges coming Wednesday in Flint water crisis https://t.co/YvF52pHV5N
— Southern Poverty Law Center (@splcenter) April 20, 2016
UPDATE: I read somewhere later that the D.A. is doing this as a stunt, but we’ll see.
2ND UPDATE: Here it is.
FLINT, MI – Felony and misdemeanor charges have been issued against three state and city employees in connection to the city’s water crisis.
Genesee District Court Judge Tracy Collier-Nix authorized charges, Wednesday, April 20, for Flint employee Michael Glasgow and Michigan Department of Environmental Quality employees Stephen Busch and Michael Prysby.
Glasgow is accused of tampering with evidence when he allegedly changed testing results to show there was less lead in city water than there actually was. He is also charged with willful neglect of office.
Prysby and Busch are charged with misconduct in office, conspiracy to tamper with evidence, tampering with evidence, a treatment violation of the Michigan Safe Drinking Water Act and a monitoring violation of the Safe Drinking Water.
Why is it that the little fish always fry, but the sharks always go untouched?
I want to see Rick Snyder removed from office and thrown into prison, where he will drink only unfiltered Flint River water until his eyebrows turn green and fall out.
Izzy, you know perfectly well that that’s pie-in-the-sky thinking.
Useful politicians are always protected by the 1% from suffering the vagaries of real life like the rest of us wankers must endure.
We shouldn’t trust any politician who accepts corporate donations.
Woman or man.
There should be a graduated federal tax on political contributions.
No tax on the first $27, 10% on the next thousand, and 50% on the next $10,000, and 80% on anything above that. Calculated and collected yearly. No loopholes, deductions, or offsets.
At least with federal prosecutors, a common strategy is to go after the little fish first, and get them to talk about what the big fish did in exchange for some leniency. So it may be that they are just going to crucify the little guys (happens often enough), but there is hope yet.