The Flint Water Targeted Populations Murder Trial Is Off And Running

I truly hope everyone understands that there are multiple layers to this entire investigation that takes us from Flint, to D.C. right back here to Detroit.

I see Todd, but where is Andy?

Hey, Andy, whacha doin'?

Judge: Michigan health chief Lyon heads to trial on Flint crisis manslaughter charges

Flint — Michigan health and welfare chief Nick Lyon will stand trial on felony charges including involuntary manslaughter related to the Flint water crisis, a judge ruled Monday.

67th District Court Judge David Goggins made the announcement in a nearly 160-minute ruling from the bench after delaying the decision more than three weeks in the most anticipated Flint water prosecution case.

Lyon will go to trial on two counts of involuntary manslaughter and one count of misconduct in office connected to the Flint region's 2014-2015 Legionnaires' disease outbreak that killed 12 people and sickened another 79 people. No public notice about the outbreak was given until Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder made the announcement in mid-January 2016 at a hastily arranged press conference in Detroit.

Lyon "had the ability" to know how many Legionnaires' disease deaths there were in the Flint area and has the "power" as the state's health chief to protect lives and "enforce laws" to that end, the judge ruled, citing prosecution witnesses including retired state epidemiologist Corinne Miller.

Goggins found that Lyon knew about the outbreak in 2015.

Special Prosecutor Todd Flood recently added a misdemeanor charge of "willful neglect" to protect the health of Genesee County residents, but Goggins on Monday appeared to dismiss the charge. He spoke faintly, and courtroom spectators strained at times to hear what he was saying.

If convicted, Lyon could face up to 30 years in prison on the manslaughter charges and up to another five years on the misconduct charge. Up to $25,000 in fines could be added for the three charges. 

Goggins was in no hurry to make a decision. Reading from a yellow notepad full of notes, he read from each and every page.

The judge covered every person from the more than 20 prosecution witnesses, from state health officials to the relatives of elderly Flint area residents Richard Skidmore and John Snyder, whom the prosecution say died from Legionnaire's disease that Lyon failed to warn the public about.

To send a case to trial for a jury to consider, the judge must decide whether there’s probable cause that a "reasonable person, based on the evidence, could find the defendant guilty," Wayne State University law professor Peter Henning said.

Lyon walked into court with his wife more than a half an hour before the hearing was scheduled to start, hugging family members and then sitting down with his wife on a bench outside the courtroom. The hearing started 45 minutes late.

Among those in the courtroom were former state Sen. Roger Kahn, R-Saginaw, and former Snyder Community Health Director James Haveman, who has supported Lyon.

The preliminary exam involved 10 months of testimony — starting last September with prosecution witnesses and then this spring with defense witnesses.

Prosecutors contended Lyon should have warned the public of the Flint region's Legionnaires' disease outbreak and could have saved lives.

The defense lawyers countered that Lyon runs a department of 14,000 employees and relied on the expertise of department employees, none of whom recommended issuing a public warning. They also argued the prosecution failed to make any connection between Lyon and the men's deaths, arguing they died from long-term diseases but not Legionnaires'.

Because Skidmore and Snyder went to McLaren hospital in Flint, where medical officials had been warned about Legionnaires' disease, a public announcement wouldn’t have prevented their deaths, the defense said.

Former state-appointed Flint Emergency Manager Gerald Ambrose already has skipped his preliminary exam and will go straight to trial.

Michigan Chief Medical Executive Eden Wells and four current and former Michigan Department of Environmental Quality regulators are still going through their preliminary exams after being charged criminally. No date has been set for Wells' bind-over ruling.

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UPDATE On Flint Water Crisis Trial: Flint Has A Land Bank, You Know, Right?

All I can do is say what I see and tell what I know.

What I see is, or least I hope I see this correctly, is a conjugal collaborative with Michigan Auditor General, House Oversight Committee, and FBI.

Of course, the Michigan Attorney General and Gubernatorial Candidate Bill Schuette, who called me a public nuisance through his Assistant AG in the Court of Claims for creatively reporting fraud, has farmed out the prosecution to Andy and Todd, so, I am going to include them, also, in the conjugal collaborative.

Yes, I enjoy encouraging Bill Schuette to do his job to protect children, even though he has no idea that by refusing to deal with the pervasive Medicaid fraud in child welfare, he is participating in the "depopulation" of Flint.

Flint has a Land Bank, you know.

But now, we have subject matter experts participating in the investigation, Shawn McElmurry.

WSU prof: State officials stalled Flint water tests

A Wayne State University professor tasked by Gov. Rick Snyder with helping investigate whether the Flint area Legionnaires’ outbreak was connected to the switch to the Flint River said on Friday state officials tried to stall his team so they didn’t find anything in the water system.

Shawn McElmurry, an environmental engineering associate professor hired by the state, testified Friday in the preliminary hearing of Health and Human Services Director Nick Lyon that the group was being set up to fail. He also worried the budget limits for the 2016 study would hinder his sampling and research because he wouldn’t be able to hire as many staffers as necessary.

Lyon’s preliminary hearing on criminal charges in the Flint water crisis resumed Friday after stopping in December.

Asked by Lyon attorney Chip Chamberlain if the health director deliberately tried to slow down the contracting process to affect his research team, McElmurry said things were “politically slow” but didn’t name Lyon.

“What I’m basing that on is multiple interactions with, not with Mr. Lyon, but MDHHS in general,” he said.

“Every interaction seemed to be adding yet another layer of complexity and things keep slowing down, down, down,” McElmurry said. “It wasn’t just one instance. Over the time period, it felt like things didn’t add up. It didn’t make sense.”

Because of the way the Flint water system worked, he was concerned the sampling of bacteria would be affected. “The longer you wait, the more that water system’s flushed out,” he said.

In court, McElmurry referenced an email he sent to members of his WSU environmental team that indicated Snyder was “shocked” when told “he needed to push if he wanted this done.”

In the same email, McElmurry said U.S. Environmental Protection Agency officials were not keen on filter sampling and questioning the scientific value of the study.

All of this, he said, led to conflict over what to test and then reveal to the public.

Chamberlain sought to cast special prosecution witness McElmurry as being alone in wanting to test water filters on faucets for bacteria in select homes.

McElmurry and Lyon had sparred over funding for the project and how quickly to test water filters in Flint for the presence of Legionnaires’ disease bacteria known as Legionella. Lyon said he didn’t think the filters needed testing; McElmurry did.

Flood’s team has been criticized by defense attorneys as taking a long time but he said in court Friday that the case is proceeding at a good pace, a comment backed by the judge.

Chamberlain sought to contend that Virginia Tech environmental engineer Marc Edwards also disputed McElmurry’s claims that testing home water filters was needed and would be effective. But his questions often were overruled after Special Prosecutor Todd Flood objected.

67th District Court Judge David Goggins rebuffed Chamberlain when he tried to ask McElmurry if Edwards criticized home sampling.

Testing by Edwards and his students helped expose high levels of lead in some Flint homes in summer 2015 after the city switched its drinking source from the Detroit area water system to the Flint River in 2014. He has also testified before Congress about the Flint crisis.

McElmurry’s group was charged with trying to determine what caused the Legionnaires’ outbreak that eventually killed 12 and sickened 79 others, but v/it found more areas of possible exposure that needed investigating.

“We were not certain that the epidemic ... the outbreak was over,” he said Friday, but added that the study group needed various areas of data collection to “be able to verify that indeed the outbreak had ended.”

Chamberlain also questioned McElmurry about the funding disputes and concerns by the Department of Health and Human Services about study costs.

In other testimony, Stephanie Whisiker-Lewis, an internist for Genesys Regional Medical Center and its associated hospice, said though her name appeared on the death certificate of Robert Skidmore she couldn’t determine his exact cause of death. She said she did not examine him or review his charts.

Lyon is charged in Skidmore’s death.

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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 DHHS New Director Robert Gordon - What Comes First? Indictment Or Resignation?

Well, obviously, it would not be prudent to hire someone from Michigan because they would knowledgeable to the trafficking of tiny humans and the billions in Medicaid fraud in child welfare.

But, you know I would be remiss if I did not mention the civil asset forfeitures, the ongoing criminal investigations into the intentional Flint Water Crisis, Detroit being #1 in the world for infant mortality, which is intentional, child poverty, fraudulent billing, money laundering, false claims, and the SCOTUS cases about the Michigan Children's Trust Fund, to name a few.

https://beverlytran.blogspot.com/2018/11/happy-national-adoption-month-scotus.html

I cannot wait until he gets his first federal subpoena.

This is going to be so much fun watching him realize that he inherited criminal investigations that should bring him a good 10 to life, that is if he did not bring with him other pending charges, but hey, what do I know?

I know it is only proper for me to give Robert heads up to what he will be formally called to address because "The Gretch" will be trying her hardest to cover it up to preserve her liberty.

https://beverlytran.blogspot.com/search?q=Ricky+Holland

Welcome aboard, I look forward to your resignation, or indictment, which ever comes first.

Whitmer picks former Obama official to lead Michigan health department

Robert Gordon,
Michigan DHHS new
clueless Director

Lansing — Gov. Gretchen Whitmer has gone out of state to fill a key position in her administration, naming former Obama appointee Robert Gordon to lead the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services.

Gordon, who will move to Michigan from Washington, D.C., previously held senior roles in the federal Office of Management and Budget and U.S. Department of Education under former President Barack Obama.

He most recently served as senior vice president for finance and global strategy at The College Board, a non-profit based in New York that is focused on expanding access to higher education.

“I have full confidence that Robert will work every day to improve public health and deliver essential human services for Michiganders across the state,” Whitmer said in a statement.

“He brings a unique set of skills and experiences that will lead the Department of Health and Human Services to drive real results that help hardworking families, and I look forward to working with him and the rest of our department leaders as we build a stronger Michigan for everyone.”

Gordon will take over the largest department in state government, which former Gov. Rick Snyder created by merger in 2015. As of last year, the welfare and health department had roughly 15,000 employees working at offices across the state, according to a tally by the Civil Service Commission.

The department remains under scrutiny for its response to the Flint water contamination crisis.

It is called a DOJ matter of interest.

Former director Nick Lyon, a Snyder appointee who stepped down in the New Year, is scheduled to stand trial on involuntary manslaughter and other charges related to a 2014-2015 outbreak of the deadly Legionnaire’s disease in the Flint region.

More children died in the care of the state.

https://beverlytran.blogspot.com/search?q=Nick+Lyon

The department manages assistance programs for lower-income residents, including welfare and Medicaid health plans. It also oversees adoptions and foster care programs, investigates child abuse and neglect complaints, runs health awareness initiatives and more.

Gordon’s resume does not include direct experience in public health, but he once worked as a law guardian for foster care children. Whitmer’s office said he has been described as a “quarterback” for the Obama administration’s “evidence-based policy-making initiatives, which closely tied program funding to quality evaluation.”

Gordon is known as an education and labor expert who also worked as a policy adviser to former Sens. John Kerry and John Edwards during their respective Democratic presidential runs in 2003 and 2004, according to the Washington Post. He also previously worked as a guest  scholar for the Brookings Institution and clerked for U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsberg early in his career.

Gordon called it an "honor" to be named to the state director post.

“I look forward to working with Gov. Whitmer and this administration as we improve public health and quality of life for Michiganders across the state,” he said in a statement. “I’m ready to roll up my sleeves and get to work building a Michigan where everyone has access to the care they need and can make healthy decisions for themselves and their families. Let’s go.”

The state will pay Gordon $175,000 a year in his new role according to Whitmer's office. Lyon had earned the same salary.

Whitmer had named most of her cabinet picks before taking office on Jan. 1 but had only announced an interim director for the Department of Health and Human Services. Gordon takes over for acting director Farah Hanley, who remains deputy director for financial operations for the department.

Whitmer had considered breaking up the community health and human services department but ultimately decided to retain the merged structure that Snyder touted as a way to streamline state services and coordinate various programs for vulnerable residents.

Employees in the Department of Health and Human Services make up nearly 30 percent of the total state government workforce. Whitmer, Gordon and Lt. Gov. Garlin Gilchrist visited some of those employees Thursday in Lansing.

Whitmer campaigned on vows to protect and potentially grow the state’s Healthy Michigan Medicaid expansion program, raise the state’s tobacco purchase age to 21, make health care more affordable, enact paid family leave policies and improve mental health services.

She also pledged to create a new cabinet-level position to focus on mental health services and a new Director of Food Security coordinator to focus on access to fresh foods. She has not yet announced plans for those potential posts.

Many of Whitmer’s appointments will be subject to potential review by Michigan’s Republican-led Senate, which has up to 60 days to consider and potentially reject gubernatorial picks. Majority Leader Mike Shirkey, R-Clarklake, recently created a new “advice and consent” committee to review Whitmer appointments.

Sen. Pete Lucido, a Shelby Township Republican who will chair the new committee, said this week he has not yet decided whether to hold hearings on any specific Whitmer appointees.

“We need to see that the best fit for these positions are being made,” he told The Detroit News. “More importantly, I want to get our money’s worth here as a taxpayer. So we hire based on skill, knowledge and the fact they have experience. Without experience, we’re wasting our time and our money.”

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Cocktails & Popcorn: The Michigan Attorney General's Office Eats Each Other Alive

From the belly of the beast comes the Michigan Attorney General's Partus Sequitur Ventrum of Parental Rights.

That is correct, the Michigan Attorney General is supposed to possess those parens patriae antitrust duties of public office when it comes to natural persons, not corporations.

They messed up when they came up with that privatization crap because I was watching everything they did.

What that means is that you have "The Girls" coming up in there, ready to set up shop and run clean up ops, but "The Boys" are not too happy having to shut down their ops.

I also think Dana was just a placeholder for Fadwa Hammoud, ya know, just in case the election is nullified, or other stuff.

I only say that the "Legal Geniuses" (trademark pending) like to use those transposible models.

This is going to be a rather bloody battle and it is going to be global.

We have an entire cast of characters waiting in the wings, absolutely unprepared to enter the world stage, right here in Detroit, but hey, what do I know?

I know I would suggest planning on an outdoor bar-be-que, invite anyone who wants to witness the Quantum Renaissance because you know what they say when it gets hot in Detroit, "They come out the woodwork."

AG v. AG: Flint evidence concealment claims 'not true,' top assistant says

"Going to eat you, Dana, I want your job and 

Lansing — Michigan Solicitor General Fadwa Hammoud’s claim the state may have concealed millions of Flint water crisis documents relevant to a criminal probe in the basement of a government building is "not true," a top assistant in Attorney General Dana Nessel's office argues in a new court filing.

And neither are several other related assertions, Assistant Attorney General Christina Grossi said Thursday in what she acknowledged was a "highly unusual" attempt to address multiple "misstatements" by a colleague on the other side of the department's firewall.

Hammoud last week alerted Genesee County Judge Joseph Farah to the newly discovered “trove of documents” as she requested a six-month delay in the criminal case against former Michigan Department of Health and Human Services Director Nick Lyon. He is headed toward trial for involuntary manslaughter and other charges arising from an investigation of the Flint lead-contaminated water crisis.

The solicitor general also announced Monday she had fired special prosecutor Todd Flood, saying she did so after realizing legal "discovery was not fully and properly pursued from the onset of this investigation."

Nessel in January named Hammoud to lead the ongoing Flint criminal investigation through the Office of Special Counsel within the Department of Attorney General. Grossi leads the department’s State Operations Division, which handles a variety of legal issues for state agencies.

"The strength of our legal system is zealous advocacy on both sides of an issue, and my office is utilizing some of the most talented attorneys in the state to zealously represent their clients’ interests in the Flint matter," Nessel said in a statement. "This is the legal system at its best, and it shows that my Department’s conflict wall works. The State of Michigan is well served on both sides of this important issue."

The dispute within the Attorney General's Office is centered around documents and other material from the Department of Environmental Quality that had been stored in the basement of the Department of Technology, Management and Budget’s Joint Operations Center.

Hammoud requested additional time to examine the evidence, which could delay the criminal case against Lyon that began in June 2017. Whether the material was “concealed or simply overlooked,” a thorough examination “will serve the interest of justice,” Hammoud and Wayne County Prosecutor Kym Worthy said last week in a filing.

But the material in question had already been reviewed in accordance with procedures that Flood had agreed to, and “responsive” documents related to the Flint investigation had already been produced, Grossi said in a rare intervention notice by the Department of Attorney General. 

Michigan Assistant Attorney General Christina Grossi, left, is defending the Department of Attorney General's handling of recently rediscovered Flint water documents in a state building. 

The stored material did not consist of millions of documents, she said. Rather, it was mostly material cleared from the offices of environmental regulators Michael Prysby and Stephen Busch — who pleaded no contest to misdemeanors in 2018 as part of plea deals — after they had been put on leave.

Accompanying hard drives likely contain back-up images of computers that had already been searched, Grossi said.

The materials from Busch and Prysby mainly included training manuals, personnel files, DEQ policies and binders containing” metering and agenda notes not relevant to the Flint case, Grossi said.

In her filing last week, Hammoud claimed the evidence included a “list of names ominously titled ‘Phones/Wiped,’ along with data from at least one cell phone that (her team was) told did not exist.”

The Office of Special Counsel never provided the department with the names on that list, so it is unclear whether data from the phones in question had already been duplicated and preserved, Grossi said.

All told, Grossi outlined an extensive document discovery process and said the Department of Attorney General had produced 305,692 documents in the case consisting of more than 1,509,364 pages. Several state agencies hired private attorneys to help them respond to subpoenas and requests for information, she said.

Any “allegations of misconduct against assistant attorney generals” who were involved in the document production “are unsupported,” Grossi wrote.

The Office of Special Counsel declined direct comment on Grossi's filing, but Hammoud and Worthy issued a joint statement saying they "will address all matters relevant to our motion in court."

Private attorney Chip Chamberlain, who is defending Lyon in the criminal case, said Grossi’s filing is “entirely consistent” with his understanding of the discovery process and called Hammoud’s claims to the contrary “deeply troubling.”

“They appear designed to smear Mr. Lyon together with any number of hard-working public servants who tried to keep politics out of the whole process,” Chamberlain said.

Former Attorney General Bill Schuette, who appointed Flood to lead the investigation into the Flint water crisis, first announced charges against Lyon on June 14, 2017.

Lyon is set to go to trial in Genesee County Circuit Court on two counts of involuntary manslaughter and one count of misconduct in office connected to the Flint region's 2014-15 Legionnaires' disease outbreak that killed 12 people and sickened another 79 people.

In a Monday filing for Lyon, Chamberlain urged Judge Farah to reject Hammoud’s request to delay the case because of the material that had been stored in the basement of a state government building.

“The stay request is worse than meritless,” he wrote. “The motion invites the court to rescue the prosecution from its own team’s dysfunction, all at the expense of Mr. Lyon, who has been vigorously proclaiming his innocence by diligently seeking relief from the courts.”

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Michigan Tells The Court It Has The "Right To Lie" In Child Welfare

Falsification of documents in the Michigan Child Welfare System has been going on since the enactment Child Abuse and Prevention Treatment Act of 1974 but the Adoption and Safe Families Act, in 1997 opened the flood gates for Medicaid fraud in child welfare.

Compounded with the secrecy, lack of regulation, stripping of civil rights, non-existence due process and the inherent contemporaneous conflicts of interests embedded deeply in CAPTA and ASFA in dealing with the States Attorney General, the Medicaid Fraud Control Units, the exclusive civil penalties of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, the sequestering of federal authority of the U.S. Department of Justice, and the fact that authorization of billing is a judicial determination that has only been challenged by me, nothing is going to ever be done.

But, alas, I have omitted the best parts of why Michigan, which was the first state to create its model of human trafficking.

It re-animated the Michigan Children's Institute, a former, and actual, brick and mortar building in less than 18 months of CAPTA to "capture" lost revenue from the oil embargo moments of the mid-1970s,

Then, Michigan went on to breathe life back into its brick and mortar of MCI to
give birth to a theoretical, institutional model of child trafficking, and it was all billable to Medicaid, with everyone who participated receiving a beautifully woven cloak of immunity.

Yes, this immunity means anyone in the child welfare system has the "Right To Lie" even though it subsequently ruled that it did not, but, heck, who is going to enforce the ruling when I just pointed out the deficiencies in the rules of construction with both CAPTA and ASFA, in all three branches.

Besides, this lawsuit which is still before Judge Edmonds, has never, not one, nope, ever mentioned Michigan Children's Institute or Medicaid Fraud in Child Welfare, but I have and you can either read it in the preserved court record or click the links, below.

History of the Michigan Children's Institute

Michigan Office of Children's Ombudsman

The Lansing State Journal pulled its top statements from the hearing transcripts.

Now, I pull mine and Nick Lyon is probably not doing very well, right about now.

Herman McCall is probably not feeling well, either.

Michigan Department of Health and Human Services Director Nick Lyon:

As you know, improving our child welfare system to better protect children and to meet the benchmarks was a top priority for my predecessor, Maura Corrigan. I'm here today to reiterate what an important priority this is for me, and also is a top priority for my boss. What our Children's Services Agency does is a critically important part of the MDHHS mission; to provide opportunities, services, and programs, to promote a healthy, safe and stable environment for residents to be self sufficient. 

Here's what DHHS told a federal judge about falsification allegations (annotated)

LANSING - Monitors appointed by a federal judge and Oversight Committee chairmen in the Legislature have said they will investigate allegations — first reported by the State Journal — that state child welfare supervisors manipulated employee caseload data to make Michigan appear in compliance with a court order.

The State Journal's reports documented allegations from current and former state workers in Ingham, Barry, Marquette, Monroe, Muskegon, St. Clair and Wayne counties. Workers said supervisors are under intense pressure to get out from under the terms of a decade-old federal lawsuit filed by a New York advocacy group over a string of child deaths.

The Michigan Department of Health & Human Services gave its first substantive answers to the allegations on June 8, during a previously scheduled hearing on the federal lawsuit.

Federal Transcript of June 8 2017 Hearing on Michigan Child Welfare System by Beverly Tran on Scribd

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Cocktails & Popcorn: Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel Replaces Special Prosecutor Flint Water Crisis Team - Federal Is Out - Wayne County Prosecutors In

Flint cocktails for "The Poors"
(always said with clinched teeth)

Why is Dana Nessel, the brand new Michigan Attorney General is "firing" the Special Counsel for the Flint Crisis?

First, she targeted Wayne County Prosecutor's Office legend Todd Flood with inference of replacing him, as a consultant, with the current Wayne County Prosecutor, Kym Worthy.

Then, she brings in Fadwa Hammoud, another former Wayne County Prosecutor to take over the investigation.

Now, she is getting rid of Andy Arena, former FBI Special Agent in Charge, who made a public declaration to go after the generational public corruption with the creation of a conjugal collaborative in Michigan governments.

Keep in mind that Matt Schneider, former Michigan Deputy Attorney General for Bill Schuette, is back as the Michigan Easter District U.S. Attorney and Barbara McQuade is on the Governor "The Gretch" Whitmer's transition team.

Dana does not look like she is being very nice playing in the conjugal collaborative.

It looks like she is trying to redirect the scope of the investigation, but hey, what do I know?

I know Andy falls under the FBI Enhanced Protection Whistleblower Act of 2017 and the Wayne County Prosecutor's Office used to be headed up by Mike Duggan, the current Mayor of Detroit.

I also know Dana does not want to talk about the 2016 and 2018 elections because she refuses to #sayhisname or that #perkinscoiesucks.

Based upon the following facts, I am going claim Dana Nessel as being a "Legal Genius" (trademark pending).

There is even an investigation in the U.S. Congressional Oversight Committee, led by Elijah Cummings, on the Flint Water Crisis, particularly what has happened to the lives Flint children, yet, Dana is more focused on pleasuring the women in her life, than the trafficking of tiny humans in Michigan.

Priorities.

FUN FACT! DANA USED TO PROSECUTE CHILD ABUSE CASES IN WAYNE COUNTY, BUT NEVER CHILD ABUSE IN FOSTER CARE

All I can say is that it is very, conveniently considerate, to lump all the former Wayne County Prosecutors, all in one office.

People profited from the Flint Water Crisis because it was intentional.

How do I know?

I know because you measure the ethics of officeholders based upon how they treat the children.

Right now, in Michigan, child poverty and infant mortality is increasing.

Let us see how this new Wayne County Prosecutor's Office gurls crew proceeds because the reasons for the replacement are quite questionable to being a cover up.

Hey, Bill...Smooches.

Andy Arena replaced as chief investigator in Flint water crisis

The chief investigator leading the state’s inquiry into the Flint Water Crisis will be replaced by a team member, who is a former Dearborn Heights police officer.

Andy Arena, the FBI Detroit office’s former director, was relieved of his assignment as head of the investigative team earlier this week, according to a statement from Attorney General Dana Nessel’s office.

Bill & Andy.
(This picture is art.)

Jeff Seipanko, a three-year member of the attorney general’s investigative team in Flint, will replace Arena.

Arena did not immediately return a call seeking comment.

The decision comes roughly two weeks after solicitor general Fadwa Hammoud was appointed to take the lead on the state’s criminal cases related to the Flint water crisis. Nessel said Hammoud’s role in the case allowed Nessel to avoid conflicts of interest by not taking a direct role in either the criminal or civil cases.

Flint Special Prosecutor Todd Flood, who along with Arena, were part of the Flint investigation and appeared with former Attorney General Bill Schuette in June 2017 to make the announcement of the criminal charges in the case. Flood could not be reached for comment.

“There is nothing more important to Attorney General Dana Nessel and to me than to bring these cases home,” Hammoud said in a statement Tuesday.

Seipanko has served as the officer in charge in all of the charged cases in Flint and is the “only certified law enforcement officer” on the team, an attribute Hammoud stressed as important in the statement announcing Seipanko’s promotion.

Since the preliminary hearings began in Flint over the water crisis, Seipanko has been a fixture in the courtroom, often times in the back or in private rooms and in constant contact and communication with the special prosecution team.

In January 2018, Seipanko testified at the preliminary hearing of Nick Lyon, the then-chief of the state Health and Human Services department, that he retrieved Lyon’s iPhone for information extraction. Lyon faces trial in the Flint water crisis case on charges, among others, of involuntary manslaughter.

Seipanko testified about a July 22, 2015, meeting in Lansing with Gov. Rick Snyder’s chief of staff Dennis Muchmore, urban policy adviser Harvey Hollins and Flint residents talking about the lead-in-water problem. A screenshot of a note from Lyon’s phone confirmed the meeting.

“Jeff Seipanko possesses the institutional knowledge and experience required to manage and direct all future investigative assets to bring these cases to conclusion,” said Hammoud.

Seipanko served with the Dearborn Heights Police Department for 29 years and retired from the department as a captain of the investigative services division.

In early January, Nessel asked Wayne County Prosecutor Kym Worthy to review the Flint criminal cases, and Worthy was expected to make recommendations regarding the future of the prosecution, including Flood's future as special prosecutor. That review is ongoing.

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Solicitor General Hammoud Selects Internal Chief Investigator for Flint Criminal Cases 

LANSING – Weeks after taking the lead on the Flint water crisis criminal cases, Solicitor General Fadwa Hammoud has selected a career law enforcement officer as the team’s new chief investigator. Jeff Seipenko, a member of the Attorney General’s Flint investigative team for three years, replaces Andy Arena, who had been appointed by former Attorney General Bill Schuette as chief investigator in the Flint Water Investigation. 

Hammoud relieved Arena of his assignment earlier this week. Seipenko has been imbedded as the only certified law enforcement officer with the Flint Water Investigative Team since its inception.

During that time, Seipenko has served as the Officer in Charge of all currently charged cases. “Jeff Seipenko possesses the institutional knowledge and experience required to manage and direct all future investigative assets to bring these cases to conclusion,” said Hammoud.

“It is important that we strengthen our internal team with certified law enforcement officers from within our department as we move forward with criminal prosecutions.” Special Agent Seipenko has more than 32 years of law enforcement experience, including 29 years with the Dearborn Heights Police Department. He retired there with the rank of Captain, leading the Investigative Services Division.

During his career, Seipenko has successfully led narcotic and surveillance teams, detective units, special operations and internal affairs investigations. Seipanko has decades of specialized investigative experience where he has managed and directed complex criminal investigations.

“We are committed to bringing justice to the people of Flint,” said Hammoud. “There is nothing more important to Attorney General Dana Nessel and to me than to bring these cases home.”

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Michigan Takes Over The Legislature On Mediciad Asset Forfeiture

 Privatization is in full effect in Michigan.

Michigan Medicaid Work Plan

In this situation, the annual budget is on hold unless Michigan policymakers pass a law to support it.

Asset forfeiture policy is all the rage in Maine, Kansas, Kentucky, you know.

Boy, these Privateers are serious!

It is just a shame the Michigan Senate did use the same ferocity when dealing with the child poverty or trafficking of tiny humans, but then again, it is the oldest form of survival.

This is worthy of a constitutional challenge to the entire concept of separation of powers.

Senate uses salary threat to push Medicaid work plan

Lansing — Michigan’s Republican-led Senate is pressuring Gov. Rick Snyder to back sweeping changes to the state’s Medicaid health insurance system, including proposed work requirements and a tougher 48-month benefit limit for the Healthy Michigan plan.

The Senate on Thursday approved a $56.6 billion budget that would suspend salaries for Director Nick Lyon and other top officials in the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services if the Snyder administration does not request and secure a federal waiver to implement Medicaid work requirements.

The provision follows last month’s Senate approval of a controversial 29-hour weekly work mandate for able-bodied adults. The legislation is now before the House, and “we just want to send a message that it’s important for the administration to also take it seriously,” said Senate Appropriations Chairman Dave Hildenbrand, R-Lowell.

The budget includes a separate provision directing the state to end expanded eligibility for residents who earn between 100 percent and 133 percent of the federal poverty level after they’ve been on the Healthy Michigan plan for 48 months, eliminating an option to extend coverage by completing healthy behaviors.

Democratic Sen. Curtis Hertel of East Lansing called the budget language “severely unconstitutional,” arguing the executive branch is supposed to implement laws. The budget would diminish that role by threatening salary reductions “if they don’t interpret the laws the way we want,” Hertel said.

The salary penalties are unlikely to remain in the final 2019 budget that lawmakers will negotiate with Snyder. But they are the latest tactic in the Senate’s bid to reform Medicaid less than five years after agreeing to expand eligibility under the Affordable Care Act. Nearly 700,000 residents are now enrolled in the Healthy Michigan plan.

Under the budget, the state would withhold a combined $294,000 in salaries from “unclassified” employees in the state health department until a work requirement waiver is submitted. The state would withhold another $294,000 unless or until the federal government approves the waiver.

Current unclassified employees include Lyon, Senior Assistant Nancy Grijalva, Chief Medical Executive Eden Wells, senior communications deputy Geralyn Lasher and Cindy Kelly, a design coordinator at the state-operated Caro Center psychiatric hospital, department spokesman Bob Wheaton said.

“This issue is still being worked through,” Wheaton said of the Medicaid provisions.

Coverage limits

The Healthy Michigan law, as signed by Snyder in 2013, discouraged residents from staying on the plan for more than four years but gave them the option to continue coverage with higher cost-sharing payments that could be reduced through healthy behaviors.

The current federal waiver directs individuals to seek private insurance on the federal marketplace after 48 months on Medicaid, but it conflicts with state law by allowing the state to subsidize those premiums, said state Sen. Mike Shirkey, R-Clarklake.

“This is personal for me, because I laid a lot of political capital on the line to try to get this done,” said Shirkey, who coaxed fellow Republicans to support the Medicaid expansion in 2013 but is now leading the reform effort.

“I still believe it was the right thing to do, but I’m not going to go back on the promises that were made to get those votes.”

Senate Democrats opposed the Medicaid work requirement legislation, and Senate Minority Leader Jim Ananich said the salary penalties show the proposal “is becoming more and more of a political gimmick.”

“I thought it was wrong as a policy bill, and it’s wrong in the budget,” said Ananich, D-Flint. “I hope that the governor puts pressure on them by saying he’s not going to support this, but this scheme is just not well thought out.”

A Snyder spokesman previously called the Senate-approved Medicaid work mandate “neither a reasonable nor responsible change to the state’s social safety net.” But the governor has continued to negotiate potential changes with Shirkey ahead of potential voting in the House.

Able-bodied Medicaid enrollees could lose government health insurance if they fail to document at least 29 hours a week of work, job training or related education. Shirkey estimates about 300,000 Medicaid recipients would be subject to the Senate-approved work mandate, which includes exemptions for parents with children 6 or younger, pregnant women, disability caretakers and people recently released from prison or receiving unemployment benefits.

Ongoing negotiations

The proposal would also waive the work requirement for anyone who lives in a county with an unemployment rate of 8.5 percent or higher. Critics note the exemption would benefit rural parts of the state that might vote Republican but not urban cities like Detroit or Flint that have struggled with unemployment.

Shirkey dismissed the criticism, calling the exemption a compromise after an initial draft of the bill did not include any unemployment rate allowances.

“I don’t know why anybody in Flint would say we need to be treated separate than Genesee County,” Shirkey said. “I mean, is it too much of an expectation to look for jobs if you happen to live in Flint, to look for a job in Genesee County? And the same argument applies to Detroit and Wayne County. 

How granular do you want to get?”

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But state Rep Fred Durhal III, D-Detroit, said low-income urban residents face travel obstacles to work in another part of the county.

“We have no regional transit system,” Durhal said. “If you live on the east side of Detroit and there are jobs available in Plymouth, how the hell are you supposed to get out there?”

House Democrats are proposing unemployment exemptions based on zip code. Durhal called the proposal that passed the Senate “discriminatory in nature.” Democrats want to encourage people to work, he said, but “this seems like it’s an attack on folks and trying to take health care away from folks.”

Shirkey said he met with the Snyder administration last week to discuss the work requirements and is expected to meet again Wednesday with officials.

Negotiations have focused on initial roll-out and administration, but Shirkey said the 29-hour weekly mandate will likely be reduced to more closely mirror a 20-hour work requirement for food stamp recipients.

“I believe we’re getting very close to the governor, his staff and the department being on board now finally,” Shirkey said, “and I’m happy about that.”

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Michigan Hires Indicted Murderer Of Tiny Humans Eden Wells To Oversee As The Death Of Tiny Humans - "Maura Corrigan Still MIA?"

I have no words, so I am going to tell a lovely tale so everyone can feel all warm and fuzzy inside when it comes to trafficking of tiny humans to death.



Once upon a time, there was a Doctor who came from the land of the Smarty Pants and moved into the Ivory Tower of Lansing to care for the children.

But lots of kids died and lots of people made lots of money for the Children's Trust Funds.

She self-spirited herself away to come back, reincarnated into, with omnipotence of the Michigan Children's Institute Superintendent, a privatized authority, empowered under the laws of the Michigan Emergency Financial Manager Laws, as the legal guardian of the trust for the children of the State of Michigan's posterity so they can send out thoughts and prayers to raise more money to run another Child Welfare Medicaid Fraud scheme, or rather, the trafficking of tiny humans to death.

So, the moral of the story is, when facing murder charges for lots of tiny humans that you and your prosperity prayer group substantially profited from their nascent demise, just do one of those special legal incantations and you come back as a civil servant to cover up and lie so you can try and capture that Eleventh Amendment immunity having the Attorney General do that contemporaneous "advise and advocate" thing to make it all go away.

FUN FACT! THE MICHIGAN CHILDREN'S INSTITUTE SUPERINTENDENT IS A CIVIL SERVANT

Someone advised Snyder.

Who was it?

"Maura"? Did someone say "Maura"?

Michigan creates civil service physician job for Flint defendant paying $180K

The state's health department has created a nearly $180,000-a-year civil service "advisory physician"job for Chief Medical Executive Eden Wells that starts Jan. 1, which prompted criticism from a prominent Flint Democratic lawmaker.

Eden Wells, the new "Advisory Authority Chief Medical
Executive" for the State of Michigan to oversea the trafficking
of tiny humans who was just indicted for trafficking tiny humans."

On Friday, 67th District Court Judge William Crawford bound over Wells for trial on charges of involuntary manslaughter, obstruction of justice and lying to a law enforcement officer connect to the 2014-15 Legionnaires' disease outbreak in the Flint area. The pneumonia-like disease killed at least 12 individuals and sickened 79 others.

Crawford ruled that there was sufficient evidence that Wells knew about the Legionnaires' disease outbreak and was slow to warn other state officials and the public. Gov. Rick Snyder didn't issue a public warning until a hastily arranged mid-January 2016 press conference in Detroit.

The Michigan Department of Health and Human Services posted the job opening from Nov. 5 — the day before the midterm election — and closed it on Nov. 11, a Health and Human Services spokesman said. The new job pays $179,672 a year, the state confirmed, compared with the $184,000 salary Wells earned as Republican Snyder's medical executive in 2017, according to an MLive article.

A civil service job provides safeguards against firing compared with Wells' current appointed position, meaning Democratic Gov.-elect Gretchen Whitmer couldn't fire her when she takes office Jan. 1.

Instead, civil service workers can be suspended without pay for up to seven days while the state investigates their conduct, and firing them can be difficult. A probe normally can take weeks.

The decision to create Wells' new position was made by Population Health Administration Acting Deputy Director Karen MacMaster, Health and Human Services spokeswoman Angela Minicuci said Tuesday.  She confirmed Wells was the only applicant for the job, which became effective last week on Dec. 2.

The state health agency has 49 employees who make $175,000 or more, according to Minicuci.

"MDHHS determined there was a need for an advisory physician to the Population Health Administration, as we already have with other administrations within the department," she said in a Tuesday statement. "This position will advise the administration on public health issues such as HIV, Hepatitis C, environmental health and more given the increasing focus on these and other public health issues in Michigan."

Senate Minority Leader Jim Ananich, D-Flint, criticized the “ridiculous” new position for Wells and said he is skeptical the governor did not know about it.

“They can’t make up an unclassified position like that, with no purpose, no meaning, no real responsibility, here with weeks to go without the governor knowing about it,” Ananich said in a phone call with The Detroit News. “This is part of a legal strategy. It’s not about protecting the citizens of Michigan.”

Ananich, a former history teacher, suggested it may be unprecedented that “someone under a felony indictment, bound over for trial, would be given a classified job, meaning they have protections, with such a cloud hanging over their head.”

Asked about Wells’ new job Tuesday afternoon, Snyder said he “wasn’t even aware of that, in terms of her gaining that position.”

“But I’ve supported Dr. Wells,” the governor added during an end-of-year discussion with reporters, his last before leaving office Jan. 1.

“Dr. Wells has done a lot of great work. Obviously, there’s the criminal issue going on — she has not been found guilty of anything — but if you look, she’s actually won awards from organizations for her work, actually in fact, helping deal with the Flint water crisis.”

Health and Human Services Director Nick Lyon also has been bound over for trial on involuntary manslaughter and other criminal charges related to the Flint-area Legionnaires' outbreak.

The Madame Maura Corrigan (always said in a high British accent), the former Michigan
Director of the Department of Health & Human Services, the one who heralding in
the privatization of child welfare and the brain child of the revenue maximization schemes
of the Flint Water Crisis and the conditions for the Detroit infant mortality research industry
to thrive.

Six state environmental and health workers were suspended without pay because of their roles in the Flint lead-contaminated water crisis — Stephen Busch, Michael Prysby, Adam Rosenthal and Patrick Cook from the state Department of Environmental Quality and Nancy Peeler and Robert Scott with the Department of Health and Human Services.

Their pay was reinstated in August 2016 as they awaited preliminary hearings on criminal charges. Rosenthal subsequently reached a plea deal with Special Prosecutor Todd Flood.

Official state investigations were never initiated regarding ​​​​​​Wells and Lyon.

Snyder has allowed Wells and Lyon to remain on the job after criminal charges were brought a year and a half ago by Michigan Attorney General Bill Schuette's legal team. Schuette called for their resignations.

Snyder noted the two "are presumed innocent unless and until proven guilty beyond a reasonable doubt" and "continue to be instrumental in Flint's recovery."

Wells will lose her chief medical executive post Jan. 1 when Democratic Gov.-elect Gretchen Whitmer takes office.

Michigan health officials have been grappling with a variety of health challenges in addition to Flint. An outbreak of Hepatitis A that began in 2016 in Southeast Michigan sickened 906 residents as of Dec. 5,  with 729 hospitalizations and 28 deaths.

The state had 2,729 overdose deaths in 2017, an increase of 8.7 percent over the prior year. Sexually transmitted diseases also increased in 2017, as part of a national trend.  Rates of preterm birth increased statewide in 2017, when Detroit had the high preterm birth and infant mortality rates in the nation.

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Of Course, Michigan DHHS Lies

Lawmakers vow to investigate Michigan Department of Health and Human
Services records manipulation?

However did "The Elected Ones" come up with the ingenious idea to look into fraud in DHHS?

Michigan DHHS has a long and illustrious history of lying, because they have a right to lie when it come to child welfare.

Michigan DHHS lies so badly that it was the inspiration for my mission and this blog.

Of course, Michigan DHHS Lies

This particular post just so happens to be a favorite of mine because Maura Corrigan is the one who perfected the culture of lying for the State of Michigan, only for the purposes of maximizing revenue for the state, privatized child welfare contractors, of course.

Maura Corrigan Is A Brilliant And Refined Liar

Michigan's DHHS lies goes all the way back to Jennifer Granholm which taught me how to circumvent lies when collecting data to analyze child welfare operations in Michigan.

Michigan has lied so badly about its child welfare that it is under a federally court appointed monitor, where I would even go so far to say that these administrators even generate propaganda for press releases and public image campaigns, with tax payer dollars, of course.

Unfortunalty for Michigan, the federally appointed court monitor for child welfare forced the state to find alternative means of maximizing revenue for it privately contracted service providers.

But, of course, there are alternative means to identify manipulation of DHHS records.

Let us begin with the insidious, congressional pitch by the Madame Maura Corrigan (always said in a high British accent) on behalf of the American Enterprise Institute, on November 3, 2015.

In order to generate such a pitch, one would have to review relevant data on the well-being of children.

Michigan knew there was a rate increase in Flint for children of Genesee County who tested positive for lead in 2015, where 42.5%, (4,196), compared to the state rate of 37.9%.

Michigan knew there was a rate increase in Flint for children of Genesee County, who were receiving Special Needs services, where 14.1%, (9,470), compared to the state rate of 13.8%.

It must be noted that there is at least a 2 year lag in SACWIS reporting, so these rates may be even higher, but, of course, no one can verify my claim if the state continues to lie, I mean, of course, manipulate records.

It must, also, be noted, of course, that the aforementioned rates are for the County of Genesee, are not stratified for the City of Flint, where I am just going to go all out there and lay claim that the rates are much higher than "ensconcely reported".

Remember, we are dealing with Medicaid cost reimbursements, another database which is becoming privatized, meaning, that FOIA and civil rights laws do not apply to private corporations, which will probably be Michigan's defense, of course.

I am going to take this a step further.

The Flint water crisis is directly connected to the sordid history of the Detroit water crisis.

Stay tuned...of course.

Lawmakers vow to investigate DHHS records manipulation

Flint — The involuntary manslaughter hearing for Michigan Health and Human Services Director Nick Lyon restarts Wednesday with the expected continuation of testimony by Gov. Rick Snyder’s urban affairs aide that previously created a national controversy.

 In October, urban initiatives director Harvey Hollins told the 67th District Court that he informed the governor about the Flint area’s Legionnaires’ disease outbreak in December 2015, contradicting the governor’s testimony to Congress that he first learned of it in January 2016.

 In 2014-15, a Genesee County outbreak of the deadly form of pneumonia ended up killing 12 and sickening 79 residents. Snyder informed the public about the respiratory disease outbreak at a hastily arranged Jan. 13, 2016, press conference in Detroit.

 When the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform asked the Republican governor whether he wanted to clarify his testimony, Snyder stood by his comments.

 “My testimony was truthful and I stand by it,” Snyder wrote on Oct. 13 to House Oversight Chairman Trey Gowdy, R-S.C., and Ranking Member Elijah Cummings, D-Maryland. Cummings wants to subpoena Snyder for more records, something the Snyder administration has called playing politics by press release. The administration says it has released all pertinent Flint-related state documents.

Liar.

 Earlier this month, Cummings said he was thankful to Gowdy for agreeing to reopen the Flint investigation — a claim a Gowdy spokeswoman declined to comment on.

 Hollins testified that he gave Snyder information pertaining to Legionnaires’ in late 2015 from his own six-member task force.

The aide did not indicate what he specifically told Snyder about the Legionnaires’ cases. Special Prosecutor Todd Flood played Snyder’s congressional testimony in court. Last week, Lyon’s attorneys asked Genesee County Judge David Goggins to strike video of Snyder’s congressional committee testimony from the court record, calling it “irrelevant” to the case and a political “sideshow.”

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