November 28, 2017
By Ron Fonger

Flint - The city's former utilities administrator (click here) has struck a plea deal with prosecutors, becoming the third of 15 Flint water crisis defendants to agree to cooperate in other pending cases, including those against officials inside Gov. Rick Snyder's cabinet.

Daugherty Johnson, Flint's former utilities administrator, pleaded no contest Tuesday, Nov. 28, to a misdemeanor public records charge rather than facing two felony charges -- false pretenses and conspiracy to commit false pretenses.

Johnson pleaded no contest to failing to furnish water documents to a Genesee County Health Department employee investigating a possible connection between Flint water and Legionnaires' disease outbreaks.

He is scheduled to return to court in May for sentencing, facing up to one year of imprisonment or a fine of not more than $1,000....