Thread by @JordanChariton

THREAD: Today is the 8-year anniversary of the #FlintWaterCrisis in which:

🚨Despite manipulated/cherry-picked water testing, water still not safe
🚨No state or city official is in prison or faced a jury trial
🚨Not all of the busted/corroded pipes in Flint have been replaced..

The national, state & Flint media have abandoned the story & poisoned Flint residents who @StatusCoup continue to cover. They've also ignored several bombshell stories we broke including ex-Gov Snyder's top adviser offering payoffs to sick Flint residents vice.com/en/article/z3b…

@StatusCoup And us breaking that Flint water investigation prosecutors concluded Snyder, his chief of staff, and health director were actively trying to cover up the deadly Legionnaires outbreak 16 months before he claimed to have known about it.

theintercept.com/2021/01/13/fli…

@StatusCoup In that story, we broke that theoriginal Flint investigation team (2016-2019-majority of team was fired by current MI AG Dana Nessel) were building a case against Snyder for involuntary manslaughter b4 their firing by Nessel—whose new prosecutors charged Snyder with a misdemeanor

@StatusCoup We also broke that top officials in Snyder's administration erased their phones and text messages RIGHT BEFORE the launch of the Flint water criminal investigation with their messages for the entire 18 month period Flint used the Flint River erased. theintercept.com/2021/07/21/fli…

@StatusCoup In that story, we also broke that Snyder evaded prosecutors for years, refusing to hand over key Flint briefings he received & other documents/data Flint prosecutors had subpoena him for. Snyder's refusal got so bad it led prosecutors to file several motions to compel Snyder

@StatusCoup and we broke that the original Flint investigation team (that AG Nessel fired) were building a RICO case against top state officials whose financial fraud helped cause the crisis...but after they were fired, Nessel's prosecutors never followed through theguardian.com/us-news/2022/j…

I can do 100 tweets describing all the obstacles I've faced getting the media to give a damn about this SCANDAL that in a healthy media system would still be on front pages of major newspapers and covered on broadcast TV. I can't tell you how many editors from top news outlets..

that I have brought bombshell reporting to have passed saying "isn't the water fine now?" or "this happened too long ago" or even asked me "is there a Trump angle" while he was still president. Not only has most mainstream media passed on bombshell reporting but they've then...

ignored those bombshells when they've been broken in well-known outlets like @VICENews @theintercept @guardian @metrotimes (credit to those outlets who gave a damn enough to work with @StatusCoup and published these stories). Obviously there's plenty of scandals to go around..

@VICENews @theintercept @guardian @metrotimes @StatusCoup between Trump, COVID, and corporate and government corruption. But we should never normalize the poisoning of an American city followed by the cover-up of that poisoning and those residents being left to fend for themselves and slowly die, which...

@VICENews @theintercept @guardian @metrotimes @StatusCoup based on 18 reporting trips to Flint, I can tell you is happening as residents in their 30s-50s die of cancers they have no family history of while other residents without major health problems before the water switch suffer with kidney, liver, brain, and autoimmune problems...

@VICENews @theintercept @guardian @metrotimes @StatusCoup This is a SCANDAL and still a CRISIS. I'll continue covering it and digging. Oh, by the way...ex-Gov Rick Snyder and his lawyers are working hard to get his criminal MISDEMEANOR charges dismissed. You can follow @StatusCoup's Flint reporting on our channel youtube.com/channel/UC0pCs…