6 State Employees Charged in Flint Water Crisis

Michigan’s attorney general has filed charges against six state employees for their roles in the lead contamination crisis in the city of Flint, Mich., reports The Detroit News.

Attorney General Bill Schuette is bringing charges against three employees of the Department of Health and Human Services and three employees of the Department of Environmental Quality, including Liane Shekter Smith, the former municipal water chief and the only state employee to have been fired so far in the wake of the crisis.