{"id":178775,"date":"2018-08-22T19:23:00","date_gmt":"2018-08-23T00:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2018\/08\/22\/burn-motherfer-burn\/"},"modified":"2018-08-22T19:23:00","modified_gmt":"2018-08-23T00:23:00","slug":"burn-motherfer-burn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2018\/08\/22\/burn-motherfer-burn\/","title":{"rendered":"Burn, Motherf%$#er, Burn"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"border: 1px solid black; float: right; margin: 0px 10px; padding: 5px; text-align: center; width: 330px;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" allow=\"autoplay; encrypted-media\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"180\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Adgx9wt63NY\" width=\"320\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>The Director of the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services, Nick Lyon, <a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/science\/2018\/08\/michigan-health-director-ordered-to-trial-for-deaths-linked-to-flint-water\/\">has been charged with manslaughter for his role in the Flint water crisis<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">A judge on Monday ordered Michigan\u2019s top health official, Nick Lyon, to stand trial for involuntary manslaughter charges in two deaths linked to the Flint water crisis. Genesee District Judge David Goggins determined that there was probable cause that Lyon committed involuntary manslaughter against Robert Skidmore and John Snyder in 2015. The two men died during an outbreak of Legionnaire\u2019s disease, which researchers have connected to the devastating use of improperly treated water in Flint starting in 2014. <\/p>\n<p>Lyon, the director of Michigan\u2019s Department of Health and Human Services, is the highest-ranking official in the state to stand trial in connection with the catastrophe. An additional 14 current or former state and local officials have been criminally charged in connection with the water issues. <\/p>\n<p>As Ars has reported previously, prosecutors allege that Lyon specifically had \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/science\/2017\/06\/michigan-health-director-4-others-charged-with-manslaughter-over-flint-water\/\">willfully disregarded the deadly nature of the Legionnaires\u2019 disease outbreak<\/a>\u201d and failed to warn the public in time to spare lives. He allegedly knew about the outbreak in early 2015 but waited until early 2016 to release a public advisory.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Michigan Governor Rick Snyder was clearly involved in the obfuscation and I really hope that Lyon flips on him.<\/p>\n<p>If not, I want him to go to jail for a very long time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Director of the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services, Nick Lyon, has been charged with manslaughter for his role in the Flint water crisis: A judge on Monday ordered Michigan\u2019s top health official, Nick Lyon, to stand trial for involuntary manslaughter charges in two deaths linked to the Flint water crisis. Genesee District &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[368,364,609,407,460],"class_list":["post-178775","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-corruption","tag-evil","tag-infrastructure","tag-justice","tag-public-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178775"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=178775"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178775\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=178775"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=178775"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=178775"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}