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Prosecutor Charges Six Employees in Flint, Michigan Water Investigation

posted by n1 on Sunday July 31 2016, @09:37AM   Printer-friendly
from the flavor-enhancer dept.

takyon writes:

Six Michigan state employees are being charged with crimes related to the coverup of unsafe drinking water conditions in Flint:

Six Michigan state workers have been charged with hiding data that showed that drinking water was unsafe in the city of Flint. Flint's drinking water became contaminated with lead in 2014 after the city changed its water supply. The lead investigator said that they "effectively buried" data showing that elevated levels of lead in children's' blood was tied to the water supply. The six people are all health and environmental workers. Investigators said they put "children in the cross-hairs of drinking poison".

Also at NPR, Reuters, and Detroit Free Press .

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  • (Score: 2) by BsAtHome on Sunday July 31 2016, @10:32AM

    by BsAtHome (889) on Sunday July 31 2016, @10:32AM (#382226)

    Management saw the bottomline and it looked good. The dollars were melting off the invoices and all was well. Cost became marginal and bonuses went through the roof. Management was pleased by the result of their underlings and drove away in bigger cars than before. No harm can come from optimizing dollar-flow in the right and upward direction of management. A proven result from the public market. Money is no dirty business and you can always blame someone else for the right price.

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  • (Score: 2) by mcgrew on Sunday July 31 2016, @05:48PM

    by mcgrew (701) <publish@mcgrewbooks.com> on Sunday July 31 2016, @05:48PM (#382332) Homepage Journal

    Management saw the bottomline and it looked good.

    Is your spell checker broken, or are you in advertising (Fastfood, carline, etc)? There is no such word in the English language. Ignorance like that makes me wince.

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