On Thursday afternoon, Michigan’s attorney general’s office announced its Flint Water prosecution team has dismissed all of the criminal charges originally brought against former Department of Health and Human Services Director Nick Lyon and eight others by the former Office of Special Counsel appointed by former Attorney General Bill Schuette.
According to a statement released by the attorney general’s office on Thursday, the charges are being dismissed “without prejudice … in order to conduct a full and complete investigation.”
A joint statement issued by Solicitor General Fadwa Hammoud and Wayne County prosecutor Kym Worthy said the reason for the move was shoddy work by the former team of investigators, which was originally led by special prosecutor Todd Flood. Attorney General Dana Nessel gave Hammoud control of the Flint criminal team in February. Flood was either fired, or resigned due to illness, in April.
According to the statement by Hammoud and Worthy, “Upon assuming responsibility of this case, our team of career prosecutors and investigators had immediate and grave concerns about the investigative approach and legal theories embraced by the OSC, particularly regarding the pursuit of evidence. After a complete evaluation, our concerns were validated.”
The statement says that the former Office of Special Counsel didn’t pursue “all available evidence,” and that the team allowed outside private law firms “representing Michigan Department of Health and Human Services, Michigan Department of Environmental Quality, the Department of Treasury, and the Executive Office of former Governor Rick Snyder” to decide what information would and would not be turned over to law enforcement officials.
from Daily Kos http://bit.ly/2KfOdND
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