Attorney General Update On Efforts To Investigate Flint Water Crisis

The lawyer heading up the Attorney General’s investigation into the Flint water crisis says they will look into crimes committed be it involuntary manslaughter to misconduct in office.

Tom Flood, a former assistant prosecutor in Wayne County, is the special counsel in the probe into whether any state laws were broken related to the lead-tainted water in Flint.

Flood says they will follow the evidence wherever it leads the AG’s investigative team.

Andy Arena, who is the former head of the FBI office in Detroit, says they have former federal, state and local investigators looking at the crisis from the beginning when the decision was made to switch Flint’s water source.

Attorney General Bill Schuette would not say how much the investigators are being paid, but did say he was talking with state lawmakers about possible funding.

He says no one would want to be seen as impeding the investigation by not providing the proper resources.

Schuette held a round-table Tuesday to provide an update on the investigation.