Judge Goggins called Lyon’s behavior “corrupt” because it was. He, like Governor Snyder and top officials in Lansing, knew about lead and Legionella much earlier than they publicly let on and decided to try create a governmental message of “nothing to see here.” Why? Because...
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Flint is poor, essentially bankrupt, and the people’s lives there didn’t and still don’t matter to the wealthy white public “servants” who created the
#FlintWaterCrisis in the first place. There are two facts that should outrage all Americans of all ideologies. 1) In Governor...Show this thread -
Snyder’s attempt to buy his state officials silence and loyalty, the cost for Lyon and other charged state employees legal defense has fallen to Michigan-and Flint-taxpayers at 15-25 million dollars. AKA-taxpayers are paying for Snyder’s soldiers defense, so they keep quiet about
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Snyder’s role in the
#FlintWaterCrisis. The second fact is Lyon’s PRETRIAL has gone on for nearly a year-longest known in state history. This should have been decided months ago—Lyon’s wreckless and willfull neglect clearly reached standards for a jury—but Lyon and the state’sShow this thread -
RIGOROUS defense shows that age-old United Corporations of America theme. If you’re wealthy, well connected and played your role in a corrupt rigged government, you will be able to rigorously defend yourself. If you’re poor or without those connections—you are SOL
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I have continued reporting on Flint because it matters when citizens are poisoned by their government, their government than covers it up, then produced nonsense data declaring water safe and “restored” and then leaves citizens to fend for themselves. I will keep covering
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Why were these people not being prosecuted for CRIMES AGAINST HUMANITY?
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Curious of the involvement of attorney general shady Schuette? Is the FBI even investigating this in order to get to the bottom of all this corruption? 119 people died during that time, do we need to exume bodies to determine if it was really due to Legionella? So many questions.
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So ummmmmm ... any chance the people of Flint will have clean, untainted water any time within the next decade or two?
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Years too late
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