Ex-Michigan Gov. Snyder Lied And Covered Up Flint Water Crisis, VICE Report Alleges

Michigan's ex-Gov. Rick Snyder knew about Flint's toxic water and lied about it and was involved in a cover up, a lengthy investigative story published Thursday in VICE alleges.

The story by reporters Jordan Chariton and Jenn Dize states:

Hundreds of confidential pages of documents obtained by VICE, along with emails and interviews, reveal a coordinated, five-year cover-up overseen by Snyder and his top officials to prevent news of Flint’s deadly water from going public—while there was still time to save lives—and then limit the damage after the crisis made global headlines.

The report says that the outgoing Gov. Snyder approached then-Flint Mayor Karen Weaver at Gretchen Whitmer's inauguration in January 2019 and asked her to speak to Democratic Congressman Elijah Cummings, who the incoming head of the powerful U.S. House Oversight Committee, and get him to back off an ongoing probe into the Flint water crisis.

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