There is one many guilty of the tragedy of poisoning an entire city and that is Rick Snyder.
These are public entities involved in bankruptcy. There are absolutely no private interests in any of these proceedings. While the State of Michigan obtained the documents legally, they should have been able to get it with nothing more than a FOIA (Freedom of Information Act) request.
Additionally, the state is a party in these proceedings. And the state isn't allowed to have it's own records for prosecution according to Snyder. That is about as backward an idea as it comes.
The people of the State of Michigan have a right to not only prosecute wrongdoing where people have died at the hand of the state government but, to CONSERVER the amount of money these lawyers spend. So, far in Snyder's case alone, the defense attorneys have failed at every motion. They should not be entitled to money if they are carrying out motion after motion in order to add hours to their invoice to the state and make Rick Snyder feel better that there is something that can stop this prosecution.
Detroit - The Flint water criminal case (click here) involving former Gov. Rick Snyder took a strange side trip Wednesday into bankruptcy court where his lawyers asked a judge to penalize state attorneys for distributing confidential documents from Detroit's historic financial restructuring.
The documents were related to private talks between Detroit, the state and creditors while the city was trying to emerge from bankruptcy in 2014. Snyder's administration played a key role in groundbreaking deals.
Armed with a search warrant in 2019, prosecutors in the attorney general's office obtained documents from computer servers controlled by other state attorneys who had represented Snyder in matters related to Flint's lead-contaminated water.
The search apparently swept up sensitive documents from the Detroit bankruptcy as well as attorney-client communications of other state officials, Snyder attorney Charles Ash said....
