Update, 11:30 a.m. Friday: Six state employees are criminally charged with hiding and manipulating data last summer that showed a change in drinking-water sources that was poisoning people in Flint, the Detroit Free Press reports.
Liane Shekter-Smith, Adam Rosenthal and Patrick Cook worked for the Michigan Department of Environmental Quality. Nancy Peeler, Corinne Miller and Robert Scott worked for the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services last summer.
Charges were filed Friday morning in Flint District cour. "We're way far from done," said Attorney General Bill Schuette at a press conference in that city.
Asked what the motive was, Schuette said "part arrogance."
Original article, Friday morning
Attorney General Bill Schuette is expected to announce criminal charges Friday morning against six state employees in connection with the Flint water crisis, sources tell WXYZ.
Three employees work for the Michigan Department of Environmental Quality and three work for the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services. They face misconduct, conspiracy to commit misconduct and willful neglect of duty charges, the station reports.
Three government workers were charged earlier.
