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-Lurid Crime Tales-
US Federal judge approves $626 million payout to Flint residents whose water supply was poisoned by lead after city started using Flint River as a source to save money
2021-11-12
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news]
  • It is believed over 100,000 Flint residents were affected by the water poisoning

  • Of those, it is thought as many as 20,000 children were exposed to the water

  • Children are particularly susceptible to the dangerous affects of lead poisoning

  • The crisis prompted several lawsuits and neglect charges to be brought against Michigan Governor Rick Snyder and other officials
The water poisoning came after the disastrous 2014 decision by Michigan's then-governor, Republican Rick Snyder, to switch the city's water source from Lake Huron to Flint River, with the city failing to swiftly acknowledge the problem.

Most of the money - $600 million - is coming from the state of Michigan, which was accused of repeatedly overlooking the risks of using the Flint River without properly treating the water.
I seem to recall that the decision was made by the Democratic Flint mayor or the Democratic county executive — someone like that — without consulting with or informing the Republican governor. See here, here, and here.
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Posted by:Skidmark

#7  And just who will be the ultimate payor of this money?
Posted by: Bubba Lover of the Faeries8843   2021-11-12 17:41  

#6  Money doesn't make you non-dead from poisoned water.
Posted by: Skidmark   2021-11-12 10:14  

#5  IIRC the city did that to redirect money to pensions payments for a system they could not sustain.
Posted by: Procopius2k   2021-11-12 07:13  

#4  US Federal judge approves $626 million payout to Flint residents

...Actually, more likely $438,200,000 maximum after the lawyers get their cut, and possibly less. Figure actually about 125K people affected, so that reduces the best case number to about $3500/person, and I wouldn't bet the house payments on that.

We were on the 'winning' end of a major lawsuit against a state utility company here in SC a couple years ago where the newspapers were predicting at least $2500/household. Everybody GOT $150 off their electric bills, spread out over three months.

Mike
Posted by: Mike Kozlowski   2021-11-12 06:34  

#3  /\ The intelligence community pays people big bucks to do the exactly same thing you have been doing. Their only advantage is they have access to both Open Source and classified reporting, as well as
sophisticated Information Systems search tools. The methodology is exactly the same.
Posted by: Besoeker   2021-11-12 05:47  

#2  I do have the advantage of nearly twenty years of articles with discussions stored in the Rantburg archives, Bobby... once I figured out the right key words. I’m proud to have worked my way up to junior analyst-in-training thanks to all the examples here.
Posted by: trailing wife   2021-11-12 05:28  

#1  Nice of you, TW, doing the work "journalists" won't. Or can't.
Posted by: Bobby   2021-11-12 05:15  

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