Charges dropped in Flint water scandal; investigation to start over

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Prosecutors stunningly dropped all criminal charges Thursday against eight people in the Flint, Mich., water scandal and pledged to start the investigation from scratch.

that occurred in 2014-15 when Flint was drawing improperly treated water from the Flint River. That led to residents’ water being tainted with lead.

“This week, we completed the transfer into our possession millions of documents and hundreds of new electronic devices, significantly expanding the scope of our investigation,” Hammoud and Wayne County prosecutor Kym Worthy said in a statement.

 

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Too bad for all those families that can’t drop the lead poison out of their blood streams like formal charges drop.

This happened on Obama-Biden watch. Charge them instead.

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