The Michigan attorney general's office on June 14 charged five people, including the state's health department director, with involuntary manslaughter because they failed to alert the public and take steps to stop a Legionnaires' disease outbreak in the early days of the Flint water crisis.
Nick Lyon, director of the state's Dept. of Health and Human Services; Howard Croft, former director of the city's public works department; Stephen Busch, former director of the state's Dept. of Water Quality for District 8; Liane Shekter-Smith, former chief of the state's Office of Drinking Water; and Darnell Earley, Flint's state-appointed emergency manager, were all charged with involuntary manslaughter.