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Michigan AG to Announce Criminal Charges over Flint Water Crisis

HeadlineApr 20, 2016

Michigan Attorney General Bill Schuette is reportedly planning to announce criminal charges for at least two officials involved in the Flint water contamination crisis. The water crisis began when Flint’s unelected emergency manager, appointed by Governor Rick Snyder, switched the source of the city’s drinking water from the Detroit system to the corrosive Flint River. The water corroded Flint’s aging pipes, causing poisonous levels of lead to leach into the drinking water.

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