#FlintWaterCrisis THREAD: After knocking on nearly 500 doors in 2018—& talking to 150 Flint residents—@JennElizabethJ & I broke story that MI environmental officials were illegally testing Flint residents water to produce lower lead #s. No corporate mediahttps://twitter.com/JordanChariton/status/1058000746829041665 …
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would pick up the story---unfortunately, if it's not Trump/Russia/or porn stars, they don't care. In fact,
@vicenews +@Newsweek both agreed to run the story before killing it the week it was supposed to run. But@StatusCoup did not give up. We contacted just about every lawmaker1 reply 12 retweets 42 likesShow this thread -
We contacted every media outlet. And we contacted the new AG's office in Michigan. In February, we were invited to meet with officials from the AG's office, where we presented our reporting and evidence showing Snyder's environmental agency manipulated water samples by flushing
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residents' water lines before taking samples--in some cases, for 10-15 minutes. This is a blatant violation of EPA testing regulations (the EPA of course did nothing and stood by MI's cooked testing bc the EPA itself is corrupt). Well, today it came out that the new AG's office
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has seized Governor Snyder's government phone, iPad, and computer hard drive. Obviously
@StatusCoup has no idea if what the new AG's office is looking for is related to the evidence we offered them. But our reporting that we gave the AG's office did suggest that Snyder's office1 reply 13 retweets 33 likesShow this thread -
and the Michigan Department of Environmental Quality did have some coordination when we reached out to both about our evidence that state environmental officials manipulated the testing and data.
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A high-level source told @StatusCoup that prosecutors who've charged 15 state officials with crimes related to the #FlintWaterCrisis all believed they had the evidence to charge Snyder with a crime. They were unable to get former MI Republican AG Bill Schuette to sign off.
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Replying to @JordanChariton @StatusCoup
So, is it past the statute of limitations now?
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