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by Allan Lengel Nothing Michigan does will fully repair damage from the Flint water crisis, Attorney General Dana Nessel says. No matter how much money, no matter how lengthy the prison sentences are of anyone who is charged, and if they’re convicted, they won t be made whole, she said in a taped interview Sunday night on MSNBC that also featured Gov. Gretchen Whitmer and Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson. But all we can do is the best we can to hold people acountable and to make the promise that while the three of us are in charge of the executive offices nothing like this will ever happen again.
By JOE GUILLEN, CHRISTINE MACDONALD AND JENNIFER DIXON | Detroit Free Press | Published: January 14, 2021 DETROIT (Tribune News Service) Former Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder appeared in a Flint court Thursday morning and pleaded not guilty to two charges of willful neglect of duty as state prosecutors revealed indictments against nine defendants as a result of the Flint water crisis. Despite the lower-level charges compared with other defendants, the case against Snyder marked a significant moment in the state s political history. Snyder is the first Michigan governor or former governor to be charged with a crime for alleged conduct while in office. Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel praised the high-profile prosecutions led by her office s Solicitor General Fadwa Hammoud as well as Wayne County Prosecutor Kym Worthy. Nessel had said earlier that she had walled herself off from the criminal cases, turning her focus instead to ongoing civil cases related to the contamination of
Flint water crisis prosecutors are holding back many of the details connected to new criminal charges against former Gov. Rick Snyder and eight others but appear to have laser focused on the connection between Flint water and outbreaks of Legionnaires’ disease in the area in making the charges.