Detroit Free Press reporter Elisha Anderson has tweeted out the targets of charges coming down from Michigan Attorney General Bill Schuette in the wake of lead poisoning in Flint’s water system.
Mike Glasgow is the Flint water quality supervisor, while Mike Prysby is an engineer for the Michigan Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ). Steve Busch was the former DEQ district supervisor.
Both Busch and Prysby were suspended from the DEQ in January.
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Glasgow is accused of tampering with evidence when he allegedly changed testing results to show there was less lead in city water than there actually was. He is also charged with willful neglect of office.
Prysby and Busch are charged with misconduct in office, conspiracy to tamper with evidence, tampering with evidence, a treatment violation of the Michigan Safe Drinking Water Act and a monitoring violation of the Safe Drinking Water
No charges were made against anyone at the top of the hierarchy, such as former emergency manager Darnell Earley, who led the move from the Detroit Water and Sewerage Department to the Karegnondi Water Authority, or Republican Gov. Rick Snyder. But the reasons for going after these three seem pretty clear—and pretty odious.
Water samples sent to state labs for testing in the first six months of this year were all marked as having come from homes with lead service lines, but actually almost always came from homes at less risk of lead leaching – houses with underground plumbing made of copper, galvanized steel or materials that could not be identified, according to the city's own documents given to The Journal through the Freedom of Information Act.