When does the abuse of our minority citizens stop? This is unconcionable. It is all corruption. All of it.

I cannot believe the level of abuse and lack of respect for life that chronically surfaces with Flint, Michigan. These people were tested when the lead was first found. Any testing with this scanner needs to be removed as evidence ANYWHERE. 

What is going on already? Lawyers want a full third of the settlement and now the people remaining to receive the monies have to be exposed to the abuse of lawyers wanting to illegitimately disqualify them. Where does it stop? The State of Michigan Justice Department should be all over these people.

June 3, 2021
By Paul Egan

Lansing - The manufacturer of a handheld lead scanner (click here) wrote to a Flint law firm in May and told the lawyers to stop using the device on Flint residents because the company has not certified that it is safe to do so.

But the device has already been used on likely thousands of Flint residents seeking a share of the proposed $641.25-million proposed settlement — with the state of Michigan and other defendants — of the Flint water crisis civil litigation.

“The safety instructions contained in the … User’s Guide explicitly instruct all users to ‘(n)ever point your analyzer at yourself or anyone else when the shutter is open,’” Thermo Fisher Scientific Vice President and General Manager Chloe Hansen-Toone said in the May 12 letter to the Napoli Shkolnik law firm, obtained by the Free Press.

“All users are expected to abide by the safety instructions, except under specific circumstances (not present here) that require adequate assurances regarding safety.”...

Thermo Fisher Scientific (click here)  The only lead scanner I found available from this company was to detect lead paint.

This is corruption. There is no other word for it. As a matter of fact, the accused and their lawyers need to demand a second grand jury of peers. These tactics are so outrageous I would be surprised that any crime charged of anyone with a one-person grand jury in Michigan would receive an acquittal.

Our justice system is based on the Rule of Law and the idea that a jury of the accused peers would pass judgment. This one-person grand jury should never have been tolerated in Michigan or any other state. One person can indict a citizen and ruin their life. Ridiculous. How many people over how many years?

May 30, 2021
By Oe Guillen and Elisha Anderson

The ongoing Flint water case (click here) against former Gov. Rick Snyder is relying on an investigative tactic so rarely used that some legal experts aren’t familiar with it.

Known as a one-person grand jury, the process is cloaked in secrecy.

It involves the appointment of a single judge to review evidence out of public view and decide whether charges should be brought. In contrast to the way most criminal charges are brought, using a one-person grand jury alters how evidence is turned over to defense attorneys and delays their ability to cross-examine witnesses.

Prosecutors call the one-person grand jury an essential tool for fighting crime and compelling reluctant witnesses to testify. Defense attorneys of the accused decry its use because they have no official role during the grand jury proceedings, which they say is a denial of due process.

The tactic now is under attack in one of the most high-profile political cases in years: the state’s prosecution of Michigan’s former governor and a slew of his former aides for their alleged criminal roles in the poisoning of Flint’s drinking water supply....