“We had 20 pages of argument in our legal brief that he didn’t address,” Bursch said outside court. Michigan ’s state health director will stand trial for involuntary manslaughter over two deaths linked to legionnaires ’ living in the city of Flint , the site of a tainted water scandal . Nick Lyon is accused of failing to issue a timely alert . District court judge David Goggins said Lyon ’s failure to tell the public about the danger was “ corrupt ” . Ninety cases of legionnaires ’ disease occurred , including 12 deaths , and more than half the victims had been in a hospital or Flint ’s water system . Scientists said water had not been property damage after being drawn from the Flint river .
Michigan ’s state health director will stand trial for involuntary manslaughter over two deaths linked to legionnaires ’ living in the city of Flint , the site of a tainted water scandal . Nick Lyon is accused of failing to issue a timely alert . District court judge David Goggins said Lyon ’s failure to tell the public about the danger was “ corrupt ” . Ninety cases of legionnaires ’ disease occurred , including 12 deaths , and more than half the victims had been in a hospital or Flint ’s water system . Scientists said water had not been property damage after being drawn from the Flint river .