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Ex-Michigan health chief charged with manslaughter in Flint

by David EggertED White
| January 14, 2021 7:06 AM

FLINT, Mich. (AP) — Michigan’s former health director was charged Thursday with involuntary manslaughter in the deaths of nine people who got Legionnaires’ disease during the Flint water crisis as prosecutors revisit how the city’s water system was contaminated with lead and bacteria during one of worst human-made environmental disasters in U.S. history.

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