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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Nice of you, TW, doing the work "journalists" won't. Or can't.
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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.
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/\ 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.
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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 ||
11/12/2021 6:34 Comments ||
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IIRC the city did that to redirect money to pensions payments for a system they could not sustain.
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Rene Boucher only got about 8 months for severely & permanently injuring Sen. Rand Paul, this in a federal court after the previous 30 day was appealed as too lenient.
Posted by: Bubba Lover of the Faeries8843 ||
11/12/2021 17:43 Comments ||
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Politically motivated leniency in one case doesn't mean every other case needs to be so lenient.
[Just The News] A federal appeals court on Thursday granted former President Trump's request to temporarily stop the release of documents to the Democrat-controlled House committee investigating the Jan. 6 Capitol riot.
Trump's lawyers made the request earlier Thursday ahead of the Friday 6 p.m. for the select committee to receive 46 records, including White House call logs, visitor logs, drafts of speeches and three handwritten memos from Trump's then-chief of staff Mark Meadows, according to CNN.
The ruling temporarily block the National Archives from releasing the records.
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11/12/2021 00:00 ||
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If its ok to pull this on Trump.
Lets get Pelsoi's, Chucky's, Adam Shi*ts, AOC's, Obama's, Clinton's and etc...while they are at it also.
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I always wondered why Obama invoked executive privilege to prevent release Fast and Furious documents. Does that kind of executive privilege extend past a president's term? I'm no lawyer but that seems to be the question.
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[PJ Media] The FBI has been ordered by a federal judge to stop plundering information from James O’Keefe’s phone following a raid on his home and other properties connected with Project Veritas last weekend.
The raid was a chilling and frightening overreach by law enforcement of protected journalistic work product. O’Keefe has said that his phone offers a window into what other projects he and his staff are working on — projects the Biden Administration may not want him to cover.
The FBI raided O’Keefe’s apartment about 6 a.m. on Saturday with a phalanx of agents taking his electronics and other information, which they claimed would help discover how the journalist came into possession of President Biden’s daughter’s diary.
They claim the diary was stolen. O’Keefe denies that characterization.
The president’s daughter, Ashley Biden’s, diary reportedly contains down, dirty, and disgusting secrets about the Biden family.
Judge Analisa Torres ordered the FBI to stop exploiting information contained in O’Keefe’s phone and to verify that they’d done so by Friday.
O’Keefe and Project Veritas have been in negotiations with the Justice Department about the diary and its provenance since last year.
Unless O’Keefe stole that diary, there’s doesn’t appear to be anything different about O’Keefe coming into possession of the document than what happens every day at the New York Times or Washington Post with their leaked documents.
Prior restraint doesn’t even begin to cover how intrusive and frightening this intentional intimidation by law enforcement is on a journalistic enterprise.
The raid is reminiscent of the one conducted by former California Attorney General Kamala Harris into the work product of David Daleiden, who produced a series of explosive videos showing Planned Parenthood buying and selling aborted baby parts.
The way it looks now, this judge’s ruling is a win for journalism, but journalists who don’t like O’Keefe may not see it that way.
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1st all I am sure the FED's have copied/cloned everything and will still quietly use it in the coming months.
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I am sure the MEDIA is screaming....
for Heads to roll for whoever asked for and who issued it and who served this search warrant.
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It is a clear POLITICAL PUNITIVE ACTION without legal justification.
4th
Likely the NYT/WAPO/MS-NBC/CNN understand US Common Law and how it will effect their past and future operations regarding illegally obtained classified documents. Because if allowed to stand they can be raided and charged the same way.
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NN2N1, they only protest when THEY are the ones being raided; when it is THEIR sources being revealed. When it is someone on the other side, they are all in favor of it.
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I think it's silly to worry about the gummint getting your data. If they don't find anything to use against you, they'll just make something up.
Posted by: M. Murcek ||
11/12/2021 9:28 Comments ||
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Defund the FBI.
Posted by: Abu Uluque ||
11/12/2021 12:18 Comments ||
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They apparently leaked confidentail proiveleged client-lawyer communications/strategies about the Project Veritas lawsuit against the NYT TO the NYT.
Several DOJ and FBI people should be doing hard time for this sort of shitbaggery, and several more should be losing job and pensions.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
[PJ Media] The FBI has been ordered by a federal judge to stop plundering information from 
