Michigan Health Chief Charged With Manslaughter for Flint Water Probe
14th June 2017
The head of the Michigan health department, Nick Lyon, was charged Wednesday with involuntary manslaughter and misconduct regarding Flint’s lead-contaminated water.
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Chief Medial Executive Eden Wells was also charged with obstruction of justice and lying to a police officer. Both are charged in connection with the Legionnaires’ disease outbreak in the Flint area that led to 12 deaths after the city’s water supply was switched to the Flint River in April 2014.
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Michigan Attorney General Bill Schuette has so far charged over a dozen current or former government officials linked to the Flint water crisis.
Not often bureaucrats get tagged for their mistakes, even when those mistakes kill people.