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| Flint water crisis: Criminal charges for three Michigan officials | Flint water crisis: Criminal charges for three Michigan officials |
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| Michigan's attorney general has filed charges against three officials over contaminated water supplies in Flint. | |
| The charges against two state employees in the environmental department have been charged with misleading the US government about the problem. | |
| And a Flint employee is being charged with altering water test results. | |
| Nearly 100,000 residents of the poor, mostly black city, were exposed to high levels of lead, sparking an outcry. | |
| "They had a duty to protect the heath of families and citizens of Flint and they failed," said Michigan Attorney General Bill Schuette. | |
| He told reporters the three individuals would face a mixture of charges including tampering with evidence, conspiracy and misconduct in office. | |
| The two state Department of Environmental Quality employees could face up to five years in jail. | |
| The other man charged is a local water treatment supervisor. | |
| Mr Schuette said the charges were just the beginning of the investigation and more charges were expected with "nobody off limits". | |
| There have been calls for Michigan's Republican Governor Rick Snyder to step down over the crisis. |