Michigan to pay $600M in Flint water crisis settlement; victim compensation fund created. Residents and businesses of Flint, Michigan, would be eligible for payments from a victim compensation fund under a $600-million preliminary settlement announced Thursday of civil lawsuits arising from the contamination of their drinking water with toxic lead. Ref. USAToday.
Michigan plans to charge former Gov. Rick Snyder and other ex-officials in Flint water scandal, The Associated Press reports. Former Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder, his health director and other ex-officials have been told they're being charged after a new investigation of the Flint water scandal, which devastated the majority Black city with lead-contaminated water and was blamed for a deadly outbreak of Legionnaires' disease in 2014-15, The Associated Press has learned. Ref. USAToday.