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Congress Offers Snyder Chance to Correct Testimony on Flint

October 12, 2017, 5:20 PM

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Gov. Rick Snyder

Did Gov. Rick Snyder deliver erroneous testimony when he appeared last year before a Congressional committee examining the Flint water crisis?

Congress is suggesting that he did.

Snyder testified that he he learned about the Legionnaires' disease outbreaks one day before he made the health issue public at a Jan. 13, 2016, news conference. Last Friday, Harvey Hollins III, Snyder's point man on the Flint water crisis, testified in a Flint criminal case that he told Snyder about the Legionnaires' disease outbreaks weeks earlier, in December.

Paul Egan of the Detroit Free Press reports:

The top Republican and Democrat on a congressional committee sent Gov. Rick Snyder a letter Thursday inviting him to correct or supplement his sworn testimony in 2016 related to the Flint drinking water crisis and reminding him about federal perjury law.

But in a reply letter Thursday, Snyder told the congressmen he testified truthfully and stands by what he said.

U.S. Rep. Trey Gowdy of South Carolina, the Republican chairman of the U.S. House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, and U.S. Rep. Elijah Cummings of Maryland, who is the ranking Democrat on the committee, wrote to Snyder in light of recent sworn testimony by a Snyder aide that contradicted what Snyder told the committee about when he learned of a spike in Legionnaires' disease cases in the Flint area.

 


Read more:  Detroit Free Press


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