Evidence found, prosecutors seek freeze in Flint water case

Source: Associated Press


Ed White, Associated Press Updated 7:29 pm CDT, Friday, April 26, 2019

DETROIT (AP) — Prosecutors on Friday asked a judge for a six-month timeout in the criminal case against Michigan's former health director after finding a "trove of documents" related to the Flint water crisis in the basement of a state building.

The 23 boxes included a file titled "phones/wiped" with the names of eight state employees, prosecutors said.

"Only within the past few weeks did the People learn of a trove of documents and other materials that should have been, but was not, provided to it months or even years ago," the attorney general's office said in a court filing.

It's unclear what connection, if any, the boxes have to former health chief Nick Lyon, who is charged with involuntary manslaughter in an outbreak of Legionnaires' disease. He's accused of failing to timely warn the public about the disease while Flint was using water from the Flint River in 2014-15 . The water wasn't properly treated, which caused lead to leach from old pipes, among other problems.

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