Five Involuntary Manslaughter Charges in the Flint Water Crisis
Michigan Health Director Nick Lyon and four other officials are accused of failing to act on a Legionnaires' disease outbreak associated with the city’s lead-poisoning problems.
by Vann R. Newkirk II
Jun 14, 2017
2 minutes
Updated on June 14 at 11:35 a.m. ET
On Wednesday morning, Michigan Department of Health and Human Services Director Nick Lyon became both the highest-ranking person charged in the ongoing Flint water-crisis investigation. He and four other Michigan officials received the first involuntary manslaughter charges in the investigation as
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