Richard Baird Was Summoned By Jordan Chariton For A Leaky Flint Water Transcript Legal Psyoptic

A very interesting leak, I see!

Now, whoever would do such a thing?

I know Jordan Chariton was just talking about this very same thing not so long ago.

Jordan was talking alot about Richard Baird.

Jordan was also talking about how VICE would not pick up his work.

Jordan never shared his information with the Michigan State Police or the FBI, or with anyone else, for that matter, because, I guess, he wants the scoop, where I believe Richard Baird may become the sacrificial lamb to cover up all the stealin' the children, land & vote up there in Genessee County Land Bank territory, but, hey, what do I know.

I know this is about to get juicy, because Kym Worthy, as word delivered to me, is not in a happy place right about now.

I wonder how Fadwa Hammoud is doing?

Todd Flood was working with Andy Arena.

Where is Andy?

Who else had their hands on these transcripts?

Who was the transcription service?

Just asking.

Perhaps, someone should ask Jordan.

Someone should ask Kym and Fadwa how come they are not focusing on all that stuff about all the contracts and land bank stuff.....oh, drats, I forgot, if they did that, they would implicate themselves in what was going on in Wayne County and all those properties that just so happened to end up in the Detroit Land Bank Authority.

My bad.

Release of 'confidential' transcripts concerns Flint water investigators

Lansing — Prosecutors involved in Flint's water investigation believe someone illegally provided confidential interview transcripts featuring aides to former Gov. Rick Snyder to a media outlet.

VICE News cited transcripts of interviews with multiple former officials, including Richard Baird, in a wide-ranging April 16 expose on the Snyder administration handling of lead-tainted water in Flint. Then, on Thursday, the Detroit Metro Times published another story by the reporters of the VICE piece with the full transcripts of the Baird interviews.

A new prosecution team appointed by Attorney General Dana Nessel continues to investigate the water crisis. Courtney Covington, a spokeswoman for the Attorney General's Office, said the prosecution team has "grave concerns about the unauthorized disclosure of investigative subpoena transcripts."

"Investigative subpoenas are, by statute, confidential, and their release without a court order is a violation of the law," Covington said. "Such conduct obstructs the investigation that the people of Flint are entitled to and threatens to jeopardize our pursuit of justice."

However, she wouldn't comment on whether prosecutors were investigating the leak.

The transcripts detail interviews between Todd Flood, who previously led the Flint water prosecution team under former Attorney General Bill Schuette, and Baird from February and March 2017.


Baird was previously Snyder's transformation manager. Snyder and Schuette left office at the end of 2018.

The interview transcripts featuring Baird are marked "highly confidential." And in one of the documents, Flood specifically tells Baird, "This is confidential. It's that simple. So I keep it confidential."

The transcript  "doesn't go anywhere" and is "sealed into an evidence room upstairs," Flood adds at another point.

Citing VICE's reporting, Metro Times alleged "prosecutors were investigating alleged attempts by Baird to pay off sick, publicly outspoken Flint residents with offers that included state-funded medical treatment, expanded Medicaid and home infrastructure replacements for pipes and water heaters damaged by Flint River water."

Randall L. Levine, Baird's attorney, said in a statement to The Detroit News on Monday that claims in the articles about Baird "are false based upon presumption and wrongly place him in a false light."

Baird had been informed that he was not a target of the government’s investigation, Levine said. And Baird voluntarily appeared for the interviews and did not claim privilege as he had nothing to hide, the attorney said.

As for the release of the transcripts, Levine said it "appears the only way such documents could have been leaked would be by the government, which is extremely troubling."

"By law, confidential information obtained by the prosecution including testimony and documents secured pursuant to investigative subpoena cannot be available for inspection or divulged and are exempt from disclosure under the Freedom of Information Act," Levine added.

One year ago this month, Nessel's office removed Flood from leading Flint water prosecution.

On Monday, Flood said he had no idea how the transcripts of his interview with Baird became public. But he acknowledged their release was "absolutely" an illegal act.

"I share the concerns of unauthorized disclosures of confidential material," Flood said in a statement. "I am not in a position to know why someone would do such a reckless act to disclose protected material."

Last year, Nessel removed Flood from the prosecution team. Nessel ordered criminal charges dismissed from the past investigation.

Michigan Solicitor General Fadwa Hammoud and Wayne County Prosecutor Kym  Worthy are now leading the prosecution team. On April 17, they promised criminal charges are still coming and that the criminal statute of limitations and the coronavirus pandemic will not stop them.

VICE says its new reporting into the Flint water crisis spanned "a year and a half across the state of Michigan."

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PBS: Flint's Deadly Water

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Operation Reanimation Of The Peculiar Institution In Flint Is A Success - Just Ask Marua Corrigan

"Have you seen Maura Corrigan?"

They had a plan.

They got the Genessee Land Bank.

They got their Medicaid expansion plan implemented.

They increased their Special Needs population, which is an automatic default to the corporate parent who provides aid and shelter to the savages who must forfeit assets of their souls in foreign corporate legal guardianship.

Operation Reanimation of the Peculiar Institution is a roaring success.

For everything you ever wanted to know about the Flint Water Crisis, go here

Or here:  https://beverlytran.blogspot.com/search?q=flint#axzz5egWbwTZU

EDUCATION: School Re-Segregation - Brown v. Board Of Education - A Residual Of Predictive Modeling Crap Databases Of Property Ownership & Gerrymandering

Someone should interview Maura Corrigan to find out how proud she is of her passionate work to reanimate the Peculiar Institution of the Michigan Department of Human Services.

Ways and Means Testimony of... by Beverly Tran on Scribd

In Flint, Schools Overwhelmed by Special Ed. Needs in Aftermath of Lead Crisis

Years after reports surfaced of alarmingly high lead levels in the water system, the toll of the crisis is becoming clear: At least 1 in 5 students in Flint's public schools are eligible for special education—and the school system is buckling under the weight of federal requirements and costs for providing programs and services.

The percentage of special education students has increased by 56 percent, rising from 13.1 percent in 2012-13, the school year before the water crisis began, to 20.5 percent last school year.

Schools are understaffed. Teachers are overwhelmed. Parents are frustrated.

"It's been a fight," said Maxine Onstott, a leader of a citywide special education parent-advocate group. Her autistic 6-year-old son, Maximilliano, began kindergarten this month. "There [are] a lot of children right now that are not getting the services they need and that are not getting the support they deserve to get from the schools."

The fallout in Flint could foreshadow problems in other districts. Schools across the country have found elevated lead levels in drinking water.

In a suit brought by the American Civil Liberties Union of Michigan, the Education Law Center, and the New York-based firm of White & Case, lawyers representing Flint families have sued the school system, the Michigan education department, and the Genesee County Intermediate school district, alleging systematic failure to meet the needs of special education students. The Genesee district helps oversee special education services in Flint and other county districts.

While the lawsuit does not pin the increased need for special education services solely on the prolonged lead exposure, research has linked lead toxicity to learning disabilities, poor classroom performance, and increased aggression.

"Any amount of lead is damaging to a child's brain development, and clearly a number of children in Flint were overexposed," said epidemiologist and pediatrician Philip Landrigan, whose research in the 1970s in El Paso, Texas, was among the first to show that lead can cause brain damage to children at levels too low to cause clinically evident signs and symptoms.

In Flint, families drank, bathed, and cooked in their homes with lead-laced water from the Flint River for 17 months before the problem was discovered and the water supply was shut off. The contamination occurred when the city switched its water supply from Lake Huron as a cost-cutting measure.

Still more children have suffered lead exposure because of lead-based paint in the city's older, deteriorated housing stock, said Landrigan, a professor of biology and the director of the Global Public Health Program and the Global Observatory on Pollution and Health at the Schiller Institute for Integrated Science and Society at Boston College.

"The combination of lead in paint and lead in water is a double whammy," Landrigan said.

City officials say the water is safe to drink now, but the water fountains and faucets in the schools remain off-limits for students. Even so, the percentage of special education students in Flint could continue to rise as children born during the water crisis begin to enroll in the city's schools.

A System in Stress
In an interview with television station WJRT, Flint schools Superintendent Derrick Lopez said that 28 percent of the district's students have individualized education programs this school year. That's more than double the national average of 13 percent.

Lopez did not respond to interview requests from Education Week. But, in a prepared statement from the district's public relations firm, he responds by saying: "The Flint Community schools district is deeply committed to the well-being and success of all students."

For Onstott, though, trying to secure educational support for her son has been one big waiting game: waiting months for an updated individualized education program or IEP, waiting weeks for special education staff to return her calls, waiting hours in district offices to plead her case for help.

"I should be able to walk into my child's school and know and trust that everybody that has interaction with him is doing the best things for him," Onstott said. "You're supposed to be able to trust your child's school, and I don't."

The water crisis has further eroded trust in a city and school system already decimated by deindustrialization and urban decay.

Flint was a city once fueled by General Motors jobs. Many of those jobs are gone, poverty is pervasive, and few cities report more violence per capita.

At the peak of the city's manufacturing boom in the 1960s, Flint had 54 school buildings and close to 50,000 students. Four decades later, enrollment has dropped to less than 4,500, declining 35 percent since the water crisis began.

Many families with the resources to do so have left town. Those left behind are disproportionately poor and in need of extra support.

The lead poisoning has made "an absolutely terrible situation significantly worse," said Gregory Little, the chief trial counsel at the Education Law Center, a Newark, N.J.-based nonprofit that advocates for at-risk students.

The Flint schools "simply do not have the resources to provide these programs and services," Little said.

Ebony Dixon, a mother of two children identified for special education services—a son, 7-year-old Torea, diagnosed with autism, and a daughter, 6-year-old Alexus, deemed to be cognitively impaired—has struggled with that reality for years.

Dissatisfied with the services in Flint schools, Dixon faces a constant dilemma: Should she leave her home in the city behind and head to a more affluent school district?

Tracking the Growth of Special Education in Flint
The percentage of students who qualify for special education services in Flint has grown from 13.1 percent in the school year before the water became contaminated to 20.5 percent last school year.

2012-13: 13.1%

2013-14: 15.1%

2014-15: 15%

2015-16: 16.7%

2016-17: 17.4%

2017-18: 19.8%

2018-19: 20.5%

Source: Michigan Department of Education
Dixon has moved to neighboring school districts more than once, only to return because she was unable to make ends meet.

"It's been a struggle at times," she said.

Dixon said that she doesn't want to leave now that her children have started school, but even if she did, "I'm still stuck here."

Overwhelmed Teachers
Unable to recruit and retain qualified special education teachers, the school district has resorted to filling vacancies with long-term substitutes and hires from temp agencies. As many as 25 percent of special education teaching and support jobs in the Flint schools have been filled that way, the lawsuit against the district alleges.

William Therrien, a special education professor at the University of Virginia Curry School of Education and Human Development, has visited Flint twice since 2017 to interview parents and current and former teachers to evaluate the special education services in place after the water crisis. He provided a declaration of his findings in support of the lawsuit against the Flint schools.

Therrien documented a number of problems, including a glaring shortage of teachers qualified to work with special education students.

"If we don't have effective educators and enough of them, we're identifying [children in need of special education] for no reason," said Therrien, a former K-12 special education teacher.

Part of the challenge for Flint is that teaching candidates can earn tens of thousands of dollars more in neighboring school systems.

But the issues for teachers extend beyond the struggles to find and retain qualified staff members, teachers said.

Classroom sizes and caseloads for support-staff members, such as speech therapists, have swelled as a consequence of the staffing shortages.

And training to help teachers address student anxiety and aggression has missed the mark, making it more difficult to connect with students who are exhibiting problems in class, according to the local teachers' union affiliate.

The lawsuit also seeks to address the Flint schools' increased reliance on suspensions and related discipline measures to deal with student behavior. The district's suspension and expulsion rate for special education students is four times higher than the state average.

One family in the suit had a child suspended from school more than a dozen times in one school year—and even placed in restraints in an attempt to control him. The child, now a 4th grader diagnosed with ADHD, has since left the district and is enrolled in online classes.

Joanna Coselman, a special education teacher at Flint's Durant-Tuuri-Mott Elementary School, said: Learning has "to come later. You have to feel safe, you have to feel secure."

Union members have reported more student-on-teacher attacks and increased aggression from parents as well. In response, the district has added security in every building to help manage relationships with frustrated parents and to limit in-school confrontations.

"I've had parents come at me," Coselman said."[I say] 'We're not going to do this in front of the kids. Let's go the office. You can yell and scream at me all you want.' "

'Long-Sustaining Disaster'
Flint is not the only school district dealing with lead concerns.

From coast to coast, lead-contaminated water has emerged as a problem aggravated by aging school buildings and plumbing and tight repair budgets.

Hundreds of schools in dozens of districts have identified similar problems. School leaders in big-city districts such as Detroit; Newark, N.J.; and Portland, Ore., have shut off water in buildings for months or years at a time.

A study released earlier this year from the Harvard School of Public Health and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation suggests the problem may be even more widespread. It found that half of students in the United States attend schools in states that do not have programs for testing drinking water for lead.

Among the schools that do test, about 40 percent have yielded samples with elevated lead levels.

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency estimates that 98,000 public schools and a half-million child-care facilities are not regulated under the Safe Drinking Water Act, the federal law designed to ensure safe drinking water.

In fact, there is no federal policy that mandates lead testing in schools.

The Genesee Healthy System's Neurodevelopmental Center of Excellence, which provides universal health screening and neurological assessments for families, opened as a result of a $4 million settlement agreement by the lawyers representing Flint children in the ongoing lawsuit against the Flint schools and the state education department.

The current phase of the lawsuit is focused on ensuring that the lead-exposed children receive the special services and resources they are entitled to under federal and state law.

Months after the school district shut off its own water fountains in 2015, the district sent a letter to parents about the water crisis warning that: "It is impossible, at this point, to forecast how it will impact us, our schools, and our children."

Almost four years have passed, and the school district, the state, and the families they serve still don't know the full impact of the lead contamination on the children bearing the brunt of it.

"It's a long-sustaining disaster that society has turned their head away from," said Therrien, the special education professor. "Time really is of the essence here. Years and years are going to go by, and the children that need help the most are going to suffer."

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How PFAS Creates Jobs & Gerrymandering

Why Nestle' gets free water in Michigan: Profit.

Michigan AG Dana Nessel takes steps toward suing PFAS manufacturers

AG's Office accused of foot-dragging on PFAS pollution crisis

When you cannot drink the tap water, you have to buy it.

When you cannot afford to buy water, you typically end up with a water shutoff.

When your water is shutoff, your property is condemned and are no longer registered to vote.

That is called gerrymandering.

That is also called Medicaid fraud in child welfare because the State will will implement its privatization, corporate parental rights models of some predicitive modeling crap foreign programs that do absolutely nothing but submit fraudulent cost reimbursements.

And that is how Michigan creates jobs.

Just ask Bill Schuette.

Internal documents show 3M hid PFAS dangers for decades

A 3M environmental specialist, in a scathing resignation letter, accused company officials of being "unethical" and more "concerned with markets, legal defensibility and image over environmental safety" when it came to PFAS, the emerging contaminant causing a potential crisis throughout Michigan and the country. 

 PFOS, one of 3M's chief PFAS products, "is the most insidious pollutant since PCB," Richard Purdy stated in his March 28, 1999, resignation letter, referring to a compound used in 3M's ScotchGard stain-protection product line, among other uses. 

 "It is probably more damaging than PCB because it does not degrade, whereas PCB does; it is more toxic to wildlife," he stated, adding that PFOS's end point in the environment appeared to be plants and animals, not soil and sediment like PCB. 

Read more because I am sure this will not be taken down.

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Flint Water Crisis Prosecution Team Found Wiped Phones - Todd Flood Is Gone

Todd Flood was doing more than just the Flint Special Investigation.

Flint special investigator Todd Flood removed from state's prosecution team

Todd Flood
LANSING, Mich. (FOX 2) - Detroit attorney Todd Flood has been removed from the state's prosecution team dealing with the Flint water crisis.

Flood was hired by former GOP state attorney general Bill Schuette, but the new Democratic attorney general Dana Nessel has accepted his resignation even though she told reporters earlier this year she wanted to negotiate a new contract with him.

Flood has recently had surgery to place a stint in his heart after doctors discovered 100% and 96% blockage in two arteries.

It was Flood who charged two top state officials with manslaughter for their alleged misconduct in handling the Flint crisis.

Millions of Flint water documents found in basement, prosecutors claim

FLINT, MI -- Millions of documents related to the Flint water crisis, including a list of state employees titled “Phones/Wiped,” have been discovered in the basement of a state-owned building, according to a filing Friday, April 26, by the Michigan Attorney General’s Office in Genesee Circuit Court.

Solicitor General Fadwa A. Hammoud made the explosive claim in a 10-page request for a six-month delay in the prosecution of former state Department of Health and Human Services Director Nick Lyon, whose attorney said the request amounted to nothing more than stalling in a case that was originally filed nearly two years ago.

“Although the duration of the requested stay is, admittedly, a lengthy one, it is indisputably commensurate with the volume of evidence that has been unknown to (if not withheld from) the People -- not to mention the importance of these prosecutions to the citizens of the state of Michigan,” the request says.

The postponement request also says the records -- collected in response to investigative subpoenas filed by former special prosecutor Todd Flood -- were never completely reviewed before criminal charges -- including involuntary manslaughter -- were filed against Lyon. The filing also claims prosecutors have learned “only a slice” of evidence requested was turned over to them and says evidence that was supplied “did not conform to data delivery standards that would have made it digestible, searchable and analyzable.”

> Ex-health director fights decision to stand trial in Flint water case

John Bursch, one of the attorneys for Lyon, called Friday a “devastatingly bad day” for prosecutors, who have “no case” against his client.

“Among the newly discovered evidence is a list of names ominously titled ‘Phones/Wiped,' along with data from at least one cell phone that the People were told did not exist," the request says.

Chip Chamberlain, an attorney for Lyon, called the requested delay “nothing but a stall tactic” and said the former DHHS director would fight the postponement.

Lyon asks judge to stop jury trial, overturn lower court's Flint water decision

"If allowed to proceed, this case will have a terrible chilling effect on those serving in state government as well as those merely considering such service," the filing says.

A spokeswoman for the attorney general declined to comment in detail on information in the new motion, saying it "speaks for itself. "

The Journal could not immediately reach Flood, who remains a part of the state’s prosecution team, for comment on Friday’s court filing.

In the filing, the attorney general’s office claims the new records were part of the response to subpoenas served on state officers and agencies, including Lyon, for data including voicemails, computer hard drives, audio and video recordings.

The request says that since the attorney general’s office took direct control of the Flint water prosecutions from Flood earlier this year, they have “learned of the existence of millions of pages of documents as well as phone extractions and other materials stored on hard drives recovered in a state-owned facility’s basement, that were responsive to the original subpoenas but were not turned over.”

The filing says those parties served the subpoenas were aware of the materials but “erroneously represented to the prosecution that the prosecution already possessed these materials in their entirety.”

In a brief in support of the request, the attorney general’s office says 23 boxes of evidence “were languishing in the basement” when information about them was discovered. Attorneys within the AG’s office were aware of the records but believed they were duplicates of data already turned over in relation to the case.

The same assistant attorney generals were responsible for the civil defense of “individuals whom this office is investigating in a criminal capacity" and took direction from attorneys outside the office “who are also responsible for the individuals’ civil (and now criminal) defenses," according to the brief.

Among the records in the boxes was data from a state employee’s cell phone despite claims from attorneys for Lyon that the employee had no cell phones preserved or imaged, the brief says, and the file titled “Phones/Wiped,” “which listed the names of eight state employees.”

Only one of these eight individuals appeared in documentation provided by the respondents, who could not explain the significance of the list of individuals," the court record says.

The brief claims that while there is circumstantial evidence of “bad faith concealment” by either Lyon or his attorneys, the state is not alleging that “at this time.”

“Simply put, the People issued investigative subpoenas that sought particular materials, and those materials were not provided,” the brief says.

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Michigan Attorney General's Office, "The Girls", Flint, PFAS, GM & A Jurisdictional Crisis

It seems, "The Girls" are going to have to run a full court bench press when it comes to a pending, contemporaneous inherent conflicts of interest when it comes to the Flint Prosecution because is seems this may cross jurisdictions.

This is going to be fun.

From one of my cybermermaids, who has brought forth precious pearls of wisdom for the deep, dark bowels of the Michigan Government....

And they lied in the article.....waste water from there still flows into Flint Municipal system and goes through their water treatment plant and as far as I know that doesn't take out PFAS et al. that means it has been flowing to flint since it started getting into the waste systems and over/out flows.

Hey Bill, Smooches!

Oh, wait, we have Dana Nessel and "The Girls" in the Michigan Attorney General's Office over the Flint Water prosecution.

It would be a bit awkward for the "The Girls" to question General Motors Chairman and CEO Mary Barra, former Vice Chairman of the General Motors Foundation Chair Debbie Dingell, or anyone associated with the Michigan State University Sparrow Clinton Hospital, but hey, what do I know?

I know this falls under the realms of war crimes.

PFAS levels elevated in 4 of 5 Buick City sewer test sites

FLINT, MI -- The most recent testing at the former Buick City site shows elevated levels of PFOA or PFOS aren’t only in storm sewers on the 400-acre property, but in sanitary sewers as well.

Four of five sampling locations tested in mid-December showed elevated levels of one -- or both -- of the compounds, adding to evidence of widespread contamination that will require further sampling and investigation of connections to the sanitary sewers.

"We have reported these results to the U.S. (Environmental Protection Agency) and (Michigan Department of Environmental Quality),” the RACER Trust says in a posting on its web site.

RACER manages the old Buick property, which was abandoned by General Motors during its bankruptcy proceedings a decade ago. The court-created trust is charged with cleaning up and selling off the real estate for redevelopment, but sales have been put on hold until the scope of PFAS contamination is better defined.

PFAS moving into Flint River from ex-Buick City factory site

Tests continue to determine extent of contamination on the former General Motors manufacturing property - and a solution.

In November, RACER held community meetings to discuss its finding to date.

PFAS are a group of man-made chemicals that includes PFOA, PFOS and many other chemicals that have been manufactured and used in a variety of industries in the United States since the 1940s, according to EPA.

Although there are few regulations to stop the spread of PFAS, either from the federal or state government, Michigan’s rule for water quality specifically limiting PFOS to 12-parts per trillion -- is one of them.

RACER’s web posting says the most recent water samples were collected Dec. 17 from five locations in the sanitary sewer that flows east along Hamilton Avenue and then combines with the sanitary main from James P Cole Boulevard.

Elevated levels of PFAS found in groundwater at Bishop Airport

The state has added it to a list of sites requiring further investigation.

Concentrations of PFOA ranged from zero to 2,280 ng/L, and PFOS results ranged from zero to 27,580 ng/L -- nearly twice the level as the highest previous testing of groundwater in the area.

Both the groundwater and sanitary sewer tests showed high results near a former paint shop, north of the new Lear Corp. plant.

Testing for a range of per- and poly-fluorinated compounds started last year at the Buick complex, which GM fully closed in 2010.

The property is one of four sites in Genesee County that the state DEQ is investigating because of elevated levels of PFAS. Others are the shuttered Richfield and Coldwater Road landfills and Bishop Airport.

Richfield Landfill sample shows PFAS contamination 25 times state action level

"Something has to be done," he said. "PFAS is a big issue, and Richfield is going to get the same attention" as other contaminated sites in the state.

RACER officials have said none of the PFAS detected on the Buick City property is making its way to the municipal water system, which has not drawn from the Flint River since October 2015.

Previous testing showed PFAS moving through the storm sewer system into the river.

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It Seems Michigan Richard Baird Really Likes Public Private Trust Funds

The more the Michigan Governor's Cabinet operations are uncloaked, the more I am inclined to reaffirm my position that Snyder was falsely advised, if he was even advised on what was going on.




Here is a list of Rich Baird's privatization activities in Michigan:

The search and appointment of Kevyn Orr, Emergency Manager for the Detroit Bankruptcy.

Pay attention to all those trust funds and real estate.

Flint Homecoming

Senior Advisor and Transformation Manager
Office of Michigan Governor Rick Snyder

Richard L. Baird was appointed Senior Advisor and Transformation Leader to Michigan Governor Rick Snyder in October of 2013. Prior to that, he was the CEO of MI Partners, LLC, a Michigan-based consulting company contracted by the Snyder administration since January, 2011.

Baird works with the Governor and his leadership team to reinvent and transform Michigan. Baird has played key roles to address financial solvency, organizational redesign and performance, talent assessment, financially distressed city turnaround strategies, public safety and infrastructure, economic/workforce development and education reform.

Baird served as co-leader (with U.S. District Court Judge Sean Cox) of the mediation team which led to the creation of the Great Lakes Water Authority and also assisted Judge Gerald Rosen in the successful resolution of creditor disputes under the Detroit bankruptcy. He created the Office of Good Government for the State of Michigan, designed the Governor’s Council on Law Enforcement and Reinvention (CLEAR), and has been actively involved in pension redesign, enhancing opportunities for the disabled, ex-offender rehabilitation, and tax payer reform.

More recently (since January, 2016), Baird has served as the Team Leader for “Mission Flint” which coordinates the State’s partnership with the City of Flint and the related nearly $300 million appropriation to address problems arising from the water crisis and assist with economic/workforce development, medical and education initiatives.

In 2010, Baird retired from PricewaterhouseCoopers, LLP as global and U.S. leader of people and change management. From 2003–2008, he was global managing partner – people, responsible for human resources and learning & education for PwC’s 150,000 partners and staff in 150 countries, while serving on the 14-partner global leadership team. From 19997 to 2000, Baird was President of Compass.com, a couple sold to TMP Worldwide (Monster.com) in 2000.

Baird has been referenced in various professional publications for his work in talent management, including The Wall Street Journal, Global HR News, Newsweek, Economist, and Chicago Tribune.

Baird serves as Treasurer of the Michigan Education Excellence Foundation, and is a member of the board for the Grow Michigan Investment Fund. He joined the board for the American Center for Mobility in May, 2017. He is a life member of the board of trustees for United Methodist Homes and Services and a past member of the AIESEC U.S. board of directors and global advisory steering committee. An avid conservationist, he also served on the board of the Great Lakes Protection Fund.

https://www.unitedmethodisthomes.org/services/

https://aiesec.org/about-us

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Baird received his bachelor’s degree from Albion College and was a trustee for 12 years, including five as chair. He received an honorary Ph.D. from Albion College and from Eastern Michigan University.

Snyder aide Rich Baird comes out from behind the curtain

Governor's right-hand man served as emissary, deal-maker, talent scout

Rich Baird, senior adviser to Gov. Rick Snyder, has worked throughout Snyder’s tenure as a de facto deputy governor of the state, whether it was dealing with the Flint water crisis or weekly meetings with Detroit Mayor Mike Duggan.

Rich Baird's skin is a lot thicker these days after eight years as a student of government.

The former PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP executive's faithful service as the right-hand man for outgoing Gov. Rick Snyder has been a ride through the making of laws, Detroit's landmark bankruptcy, some well-intended ideas gone awry and the tsunami of turmoil that engulfed his hometown of Flint — and nearly took the Snyder administration with it.

Whenever there was a controversy or a fire to put out during Snyder's unconventional tenure as Michigan's chief executive, Baird was typically on the scene, serving as an emissary, a deal-maker, the talent scout and, in the eyes of some people, a de facto deputy governor of Michigan.

For the past six years, Rich Baird's trail has run from the governor's office and courtrooms to Detroit Mayor Mike Duggan's office and Flint City Hall. And for most of that time, he has spurned attention from journalists who have been curious about his wide-ranging assignments from the governor.

Rich Baird has seemingly been everywhere:

• He recruited the top minds to Snyder's team, convincing Jones Day bankruptcy attorney Kevyn Orr to camp out in Detroit for a nearly two-year bankruptcy reorganization project that defied political gravity.
• He set up Snyder's now-defunct Education Achievement Authority school reform entity — and later was involved in dismantling the EAA after it became entangled in mismanagement and corruption.
• In 2016, Baird planted himself in Flint during the height of the city's lead-tainted water crisis, living in rooms he rented off Craigslist and serving as the governor's personal representative at a time when hatred for Snyder was at a fevered pitch.
• He has served as Snyder's ambassador to the Manoogian Mansion, holding meetings every Thursday morning with Duggan for the past five years and forging an early peace treaty in 2013 between the emergency manager and a newly elected mayor who vowed to dispose of the EM.
• During and after the bankruptcy, Baird mediated negotiations with stakeholders, including creation of the Great Lakes Water Authority, a regional entity that spun off suburban water and sewer operations from the Detroit Water & Sewerage Department.
• In the four years since Detroit emerged from bankruptcy, Baird has continued to be the go-to troubleshooter for state-city issues, serving as a self-described "field commander" in Detroit's failed bid for Amazon's second headquarters.
• Baird played a central role in striking key deals for construction of the Gordie Howe International Bridge, including securing funds for Detroit to relocate Delray residents who live near the planned bridge plaza.

"He's the person we turn to when we're stuck," Duggan said of Baird. "The fact that he's down (in Detroit) every day, he understands what we're trying to do and why, it has made him very effective as an honest broker with a lot of different major deals."

Baird's broad role in the Snyder administration "created a vacuum, a mystery around him" that was widely misunderstood, Lt. Gov. Brian Calley said.

"It's hard for this town to understand that there's this person that you've never heard of that has a lot of influence. What's going on there?" Calley said in an interview.

Before Snyder took the oath of office on Jan. 1, 2010, incoming Chief of Staff Dennis Muchmore gave Baird the ubiquitous title of "transformation manager."

"What's transformation manager mean?" Baird asked Muchmore.

"Absolutely nothing," Muchmore replied.

"Or it could mean absolutely everything," Baird said.

The latter turned out to be true.

"Rich Baird has been one of the most important, impactful and effective members of this administration," Calley said.

The recruiter

Baird, 62, retired from PricewaterhouseCoopers on June 30, 2010, after three decades at PwC and one of the accounting giant's predecessors, Coopers & Lybrand, where he hired Snyder in 1982 to work in the firm's Detroit office. Snyder has been Baird's colleague, a client when he ran Gateway Computers, confidante and friend ever since.

Baird volunteered for Snyder's gubernatorial campaign. In the transition, Snyder tapped Baird to lead the recruitment of state agency directors and top aides — a natural fit for the guy who was PwC's global managing partner for human resources.

Two positions proved to be the most difficult to fill: the Department of Corrections director and the state budget director. The corrections director job would be filled a month into Snyder's tenure with the appointment of then-Jackson County Sheriff Dan Heyns.

For the budget director job, Baird was not satisfied after interviewing nearly two dozen in-state candidates.

"I did not come away with the sense that any of them really understood what it was going to take to not only deal with the budget and fill what we knew was a deficit, but also knowing how the governor was going to approach policy and budgeting," Baird said.

On a Saturday afternoon in November of 2010, Baird called former Gov. John Engler for advice on out-of-state candidates for the job.

Engler, who was then CEO of the National Association of Manufacturers, came back to Baird with a list of five well-regarded state budget officers across the country. At the top of the list was Utah's budget director, John Nixon, then the president of the National Association of State Budget Officers.

"(Engler) said, 'You won't get this guy, but you should start with him and talk to him about the other candidates — because he knows all of them,'" Baird said.

Baird sent Nixon an email — and within an hour Utah's budget guru called the Michigan headhunter on a Saturday night.

Nixon, a devout Mormon with six children who were ages two to 14 at the time, wasn't interested in uprooting for the Midwest.

But cajoling is Baird's specialty.

"I said, 'It seems to me that you've retired in place. How exciting could it be? Why don't you at least come out and talk to us? We'll make you part of the biggest comeback in the history of the country,'" Baird said. "And he laughed."

Nixon relented, flying to Detroit to meet with Baird and the top members of Snyder's cabinet — Calley, Muchmore, Treasurer Andy Dillon and Strategy Director Bill Rustem. He also met with members of Snyder's transition team: Business Leaders for Michigan CEO Doug Rothwell and Meijer Inc. Vice Chairman Mark Murray, a former state budget director and treasurer under Engler.

When Nixon came back the following weekend with his wife to meet with Snyder, Baird called in a favor from Honigman corporate attorney G. Scott Romney, son of former Gov. George Romney and a fellow Mormon and Republican.

Baird asked Romney if he'd take the Nixons to his Mormon church. "The Romney name is like gold in Utah," Baird said.

On New Year's Eve 2010, Nixon flew to Michigan and set to work on a grueling mission: Produce a two-year budget in six weeks that eliminates a $1.5 billion budget deficit and lets the state slash business taxes.

"Rich is a compelling guy. I realized they had built a first-class team. And I thought, this is something I want to be part of," said Nixon, who returned to Utah in 2014 to become chief administrative officer of the University of Utah.

'Great idea' gone bad

Baird never intended to be part of Snyder's administration.

Initially, Snyder asked Baird to work as a consultant for six months to help put together a new government.

Baird says he "resisted" becoming an employee of the State of Michigan.

"I'm not a bureaucrat," Baird recalled telling the governor. "I don't want to stay on."

"He said, 'Well, I'll pay you out of the NERD Fund,' which we thought was a great idea at the time," Baird added.

And that's how Baird got on the radar of reporters like me.

For most of Snyder's first three years, Baird was paid $100,000 annually from the New Energy to Reinvent and Diversify (NERD) Fund, a not-for-profit organization that could accept limitless donations without having to disclose the donors.

The arrangement raised the specter of whether special interest groups with a policy or legislative agenda were funding the salary of an influential member of the governor's inner circle.

"It wasn't special interests that gave to the NERD Fund — it was Democrats, a whole bunch of them," Baird said.

But Democrats had a field day, raising transparency questions about the secrecy of the fund and the source of Baird's pay while being listed as a state employee with an office across the hall from the governor's suite.

To this day, the identity of the donors who contributed $2.2 million to the NERD Fund remains a secret. In October 2013, Snyder shuttered the NERD Fund, put Baird on the state payroll — at $140,000 a year — and started a new nonprofit organization that has voluntarily disclosed its donors and expenses.

But Baird insists his NERD Fund employment arrangement was devoid of conflicts.

"If I'm a tool of the special interest, then somebody should be shot because I made exactly one-twentieth of what I made in my old life at PricewaterhouseCoopers," Baird said.

'Hated being called a tax cheat'

Even after Snyder tried to tamp down the NERD Fund controversy, Baird remained a frequent target of Democrats and the governor's political enemies.

In August of 2014, the critics pounced after MIRS news service discovered Baird was claiming tax principal homestead exemptions on a $500,000 home in Clinton County's Bath Township and his longtime residence in suburban Chicago. Tax laws limit the property tax break to just one home.

Baird also was still driving around a vehicle with an Illinois license plate, even after he had changed his voter registration to Michigan and got elected a precinct delegate to help re-nominate Calley for lieutenant governor at a GOP state convention — and vote for Snyder that fall.

That move, Baird said, triggered a call from his accountant, who flagged the fact that Michigan — under Snyder — was now taxing pension income for individuals born after 1946.

"She said, 'Are you crazy? You've got to move your pension away from Illinois and to Michigan — and you're going to get taxed on the pension,'" Baird recalled. "I said, 'I know. I was at the scene of that crime.'"

'EAA was not a failure'

Baird's activities stretched well beyond recruitment and the confines of governing inside the Lansing bubble.

Snyder made turning around Detroit and its long-failing schools a top priority. For the city's schools, a succession of state emergency managers was not working, and Snyder wanted to try something new.

The governor tasked Baird with helping to create a new entity that would take over 15 persistently failing schools in Detroit in an effort funded in large part by billionaire Detroit native Eli Broad to demonstrate a different style of education with longer school days, year-round instruction and no grade levels.

The result was the Education Achievement Authority, which was organized as an intergovernmental agreement between Eastern Michigan University and Detroit Public Schools, which was run by an emergency manager at the time.

That move, Baird said, triggered a call from his accountant, who flagged the fact that Michigan — under Snyder — was now taxing pension income for individuals born after 1946.

"She said, 'Are you crazy? You've got to move your pension away from Illinois and to Michigan — and you're going to get taxed on the pension,'" Baird recalled. "I said, 'I know. I was at the scene of that crime.'"

'EAA was not a failure'

Baird's activities stretched well beyond recruitment and the confines of governing inside the Lansing bubble.

Snyder made turning around Detroit and its long-failing schools a top priority. For the city's schools, a succession of state emergency managers was not working, and Snyder wanted to try something new.

The governor tasked Baird with helping to create a new entity that would take over 15 persistently failing schools in Detroit in an effort funded in large part by billionaire Detroit native Eli Broad to demonstrate a different style of education with longer school days, year-round instruction and no grade levels.

The result was the Education Achievement Authority, which was organized as an intergovernmental agreement between Eastern Michigan University and Detroit Public Schools, which was run by an emergency manager at the time.

From the outset, the EAA was troubled.

The school reform entity struggled to meet payroll and manage expenses in the absence of authority to borrow money like normal school districts do.

John Covington, the former Kansas City schools superintendent who was hired to be the EAA's chancellor, was "a good blueprinting guy ... but not an operations guy," Baird said.

Baird said Covington's insistence that the EAA be a closed shop for the American Federation of Teachers triggered an unnecessary "war" with the union and legislative Democrats, who dredged up thousands of pages of emails that revealed the early dysfunction and stumbles of Snyder's school reform project.

"I ultimately rolled over on that," Baird said. "I'm really sorry I did, because over the years, I've worked with the (AFT), and we've been able to find common ground."

In 2013, as Snyder was seeking legislation to expand the EAA to 50 failing schools across the state, Baird said he experienced an "epiphany" that the EAA was faltering when a highly skilled information technology director quit after one week on the job.

"I called her and I said, 'What's going on?' And she said, 'There's so many things that are wrong, I can't fix them and I'm not going to fool anybody into thinking I can,'" Baird said.

Baird asked David Behen, the state's chief information officer at the time, to audit the books of the EAA. "He did a thorough investigation — as good as anything a PwC or a Deloitte would have done," Baird said.

The audit revealed duplicate IT contracts and a "consistent lack of controls" that allowed vendors to get paid without contracts. That caused Baird to turn to a former PwC partner, Tom Golden, who co-authored a guide to forensic accounting.

Golden's investigation led to an FBI and state police probe that rooted out a corruption scheme involving an EAA principal who was driving a Maserati and pocketing tens of thousands of dollars in bribes from a vendor. A dozen principals in DPS were eventually charged for taking bribes from vendors in a pay-to-play scheme that had been going on in Detroit schools for years.

The corruption scandal, Covington's mismanagement and controversial frequent travel to conferences coupled with declining enrollment and rampant staff turnover eventually caused the Snyder administration to fold the EAA schools back into DPS in 2016.

"It clearly didn't work," said David Hecker, president of the AFT Michigan. "But I'll give Gov. Snyder credit for realizing it didn't work."

Baird insists the "EAA was not a failure."

"If we had done some things differently, I'm convinced the EAA would have been the trigger to create some real revolutionary change in school districts across the state," Baird said. "It was always designed to be Stage One of a statewide focus."

Defending the EM law

For eight years, Snyder wore his "relentless positive action" mantra on his sleeve, while Baird worked to enforce it.

On the Thursday after Detroit's November 2013 mayoral election, Baird brokered the first meeting between Mayor-elect Mike Duggan and Kevyn Orr, who had been running the city for nearly eight months as emergency manager.

Baird hand-wrote a pledge for the two men: Both agreed to keep their disagreements private "and the only time that we're going to publicly talk about the other person is when we have something good to say."

"I made them sign it," said Baird, who declined to show me a copy of this peace accord.

At that meeting, Duggan and Orr agreed to share power for the next year — Orr would manage the bankruptcy and supervise police chief James Craig, while Duggan would run city departments.

Baird cautioned Orr on how the arrangement could play out.

"You've heard about if you give a mouse a cookie, he's going to want a glass of milk," Baird recalled telling Orr. "Mike Duggan will want the barn, the dairy farm, the production facility and the supply chain — it won't stop with the milk."

Since Orr left town at the end of the bankruptcy four years ago this month, Baird has remained Snyder's point man in Detroit, holding court with the mayor every Thursday morning. Duggan even gave Baird his own mayor's office ID badge that lets him bypass security.

"I think Rich Baird has been as big a part of the progress Detroit has made in the last eight years as any other person, including Kevyn Orr, Mike Duggan and Rick Snyder," Calley said. "Rich Baird has been that impactful."

Baird credits the bankruptcy's success to both Duggan's management and turnaround skills and the talents Orr and his Jones Day legal team brought to the restructuring of a city that was drowning in debt and political dysfunction.

The same cannot be said for Flint, where Baird ran a "Mission Flint" program in 2016 trying to chart new initiatives in education, economic development and social services for his hometown in the wake of the water crisis.

Baird, the longtime human resources professional, is blunt in his assessment of how Flint's water became tainted with lead under the watch of Snyder-appointed emergency managers.

"The reason it didn't work in Flint is because we did not always have the right emergency manager that looked at this as a partnership as opposed to a dictatorship," Baird said.

Rumor has it

With just two weeks remaining in Snyder's term, the only transforming Baird is working on is stepping back into semi-retirement.

Snyder appointed Baird to an eight-year term on the Eastern Michigan University Board of Regents, and he's planning to do some long-overdue traveling with his wife next year.

And even though he's already got walk-in privileges at the mayor's office, Baird said he isn't going to join the Duggan administration.

"I think Mike was the one spreading that rumor," Baird said with a laugh.

In an interview, Duggan didn't deny he has tried to make Baird more than a weekly visitor to Coleman A. Young Municipal Center.

"Yeah, I'm recruiting people all of the time," Duggan said. "But you know, I think he's earned retirement."

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OVERSIGHT: Cummings Calls Snyder Back Over Flint

It is my belief that Snyder's advisors lied to him.

Snyder was rejected by the Michigan Democratic Party for a candidate no one could even pronounce his name let alone pick him out of a line up.

Engler and Corrigan advised Snyder.

This should be interesting to see what is flushed out in testimony because Nestle' funded Snyder's legal defense, after only having to pay $200 for a permit to expand water production, while Flint water rates skyrocketed.

Snyder said Nestle "followed the rules as they exist" and that Michigan's water withdrawal fee structure is an "issue for the legislature to decide."

But the legislative bodies refuse to make law which becomes another transposable model.

Cummings is ready to bring Snyder back before Congress over Flint

Washington — The incoming chairman of the House Oversight committee said he's likely to bring Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder back before Congress after Democrats take control of the House next year.

"I'm not done with Flint," U.S. Rep. Elijah Cummings said Friday at the U.S. Capitol.

Cummings, a Maryland Democrat, is set to take the helm of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee in January, which will give him subpoena power and the authority to call hearings and reopen the panel's investigation into the Flint lead-contaminated water crisis.

Snyder testified before the committee in March 2016, where Cummings and other committee Democrats called for his resignation.

Cummings later raised questions over whether the governor lied in his testimony about when he learned about the 2014-15 Legionnaires' disease outbreak in the Flint area after hearing of contradictory testimony in an involuntary manslaughter preliminary exam by Snyder's urban issues adviser.

"It is very difficult for me to sleep at night with what happened and continues to happen to Flint — that wonderful municipality," Cummings told The Detroit News.

"I know that much has been done with regard to Attorney General Bill Schuette, but there are still questions as to whether the governor was completely honest with us when he appeared before our committee. I would love to at some point — soon — see him come back to address the committee's concerns."

Cummings said he's not sure yet when that could happen, but "we cannot let go."

"We must do everything in our power to make sure something like this never happens again, and we must also make sure the people of Flint are not forgotten," Cummings added.

"The damage that has been done to many of Flint's children will have negative impacts on their lives until they die."

Snyder's office declined to comment Friday. The Republican governor leaves office at the end of December and would be a private citizen if he were to be called to testify again.

Schuette's special prosecutor has charged two Snyder health officials with involuntary manslaughter and other crimes.

Two state-appointed emergency managers also have been criminally charged, as have four current and former Department of Environmental Quality officials.

In his March 2016 testimony, Snyder accepted responsibility for not questioning the conclusions of state experts on Flint's water quality after the city shifted its water source from the Detroit area water system to the Flint River.

But the governor blamed DEQ officials for not telling him about lead-contaminated water, maintaining he did not know about elevated lead levels until shortly before he announced an action plan in October 2015.

He insisted that he did not learn about an outbreak of deadly Legionnaires’ disease until January 2016.

Currently the top Democrat on the House Oversight committee, Cummings last year asked Republicans leading the panel to subpoena Snyder to direct him to comply "in full" with the panel's bipartisan request for documents relating to the Flint crisis.

Cummings has been particularly interested in documents relating to when Snyder became aware of concerns relating to Flint's outbreak of Legionnaires' disease, a deadly form of pneumonia that killed 12 people and sickened dozens of others in Genesee County in 2014-15.

After a top aide contradicted Snyder's statements to the Oversight panel, committee leaders last year asked Snyder about his congressional testimony that he first learned about the Legionnaires' concerns in January 2016.

Urban affairs aide Harvey Hollins had testified that he informed the governor about the Legionnaires’ outbreak in December 2015 but didn't indicate what he specifically told Snyder about the Legionnaires’ cases.

Snyder stuck by his testimony, but that didn't satisfy Cummings and other Democrats.

Snyder's office has said it provided the Oversight committee with tens of thousands of pages of records, in addition to documents from the state's attorney general, health and environmental departments.

Former House Oversight Chairman Jason Chaffetz, R-Utah, closed the panel's Flint inquiry in December 2016 over the objections of Cummings, who called the move premature and "inconceivable" at the time.

Rep. Dan Kildee, D-Flint Township, endorsed Cummings' plan to re-examine the Flint crisis, calling it a "man-made disaster caused by the state of Michigan and its emergency financial managers, appointed by Gov. Snyder, that failed to protect public health."

“Justice for Flint families comes in many forms, including the governor testifying under oath and his administration being held accountable for their actions that led to this crisis," Kildee said.

"Congressman Cummings has been a champion for Flint families, and I know he, as the chairman of the Oversight and Government Reform Committee, will continue the fight for justice for the people of Flint.”

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The Flint Water Crisis Had Nothing To Do With The Color Of Skin - It Was All About The Genesee County Land Bank

It seems the attorneys representing the people of Flint in the Michigan Emergency Manager water poisoning lawsuit, Theodore J. Leopold, partner at Cohen Milstein Sellers & Toll, think they can bring back Rick Snyder and other elected officials as a defendants in their official capacities under the race card.

The following is a Socratic line of questioning I have so arduously developed to disprove the notion that the Flint Water Crisis was motivated to target a specific racial population:

"Knock, knock."

"Who's there?"

"Land Bank."

"Land Bank, who."

"Genesee County Land Bank."

There is no discrimination in the fraudulent property foreclosures of Flint.

Much of the hardships the People of Flint are experiencing has to do with the legal community only being focused on obtaining settlement, which is not adjudication of what actually happened under the mens rea of the Emergency Manager Law, which was intentionally designed to steal the children, the land and the votes.

When one has their home foreclosed upon, whether through a complex, financial fraud scheme or egregious property tax fraud and unsubstantiated, increased water rates, forced migration ensues.

When you are kicked out of your home, you cannot vote and your likelihood of registering to vote at your new abode may come at a cost of time, since foreclosures typically sync with election cycle deadlines.

That leads to gerrymandering which is election interference through campaign finance money laundering schemes and has absolutely nothing about the one-drop rule of social constructs.

We should ask Dan Kildee about my allegations.

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Flint residents seek to reinstate Snyder in water suit

Flint – Residents and businesses affected by the lead-contaminated water crisis in Flint are asking a judge to reinstate Republican Gov. Rick Snyder and other Michigan officials as defendants in a class-action lawsuit.

Lawyers said Sunday that an amended complaint includes evidence not in the original lawsuit. They say it shows Snyder and his staff knew about health risks for months before making an official announcement.

"The citizens of Flint were both forgotten and mistreated by those involved in the Flint water disaster.

To this day, residents continue to suffer because of the reckless decisions of senior state and local officials,” Theodore J. Leopold, partner at Cohen Milstein Sellers & Toll and co-lead Plaintiffs’ attorney, said in a statement on Sunday

“We hope to restore as defendants the senior leaders responsible for responding to Flint’s water crisis and enforcing State and federal environmental laws to provide a measure of justice to those still struggling to recover and eventually some much-needed relief," Leopold said.

Judge Judith Levy dropped Snyder and others from the case in August, saying the 2016 suit didn’t claim Snyder knew of risks when the city switched to Flint River water in 2014. The corrosive water caused lead to leach from old plumbing.

The new complaint also alleges the administration’s delayed response may have been racially motivated.

Snyder spokesman Ari Adler said the administration doesn’t comment on pending litigation.

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