Emergency managers charged over Flint’s tainted water

There will be accountability.

Michigan’s attorney general filed more criminal charges Tuesday in the investigation of lead-tainted water in Flint, targeting two former state-appointed emergency managers who were running the troubled city and had key roles in making changes to the supply that caused the crisis.

Former emergency managers Darnell Earley and Gerald Ambrose were each charged with four crimes, including conspiracy. Attorney General Bill Schuette said they committed Flint to $85 million in bonds to help build a new water pipeline to Lake Huron while at the same time using a city water plant that was not equipped to treat water properly from the Flint River.

Schuette also charged former Flint city employees Howard Croft and Daugherty Johnson with conspiracy and false pretenses. Croft was the public works director from December 2011 to November 2015. Johnson was Flint’s utilities director.

Johnson’s attorney, Edwar Zeineh, said his client will plead not guilty. The others and their lawyers couldn’t immediately be reached for comment.

By: Alan

Alan Colmes is the publisher of Liberaland.