To make Flint water crisis criminal charges stick against two licensed engineers employed by the state, Michigan’s attorney general will need to prove two things about Stephen Busch and Michael Prysby: that they made deliberate attempts to deceive the public about the lead levels in the city’s water and that they covered up or tried to cover up their deceptions or mistakes.

第三件事可能同样重要：Busch和Prysby是指导，承诺或掩盖所谓的犯罪的实际情况。

去年四月，在弗林特州的州法院被指控犯有重罪和轻罪，布希和普里斯比面临大量的监狱刑罚和罚款。

密歇根州总检察长还指控第三名被告城市水处理厂操作员罗杰·格拉斯哥（Roger Glasgow）。5月，他没有对故意忽视职责的竞争，这是一项轻罪，可能被判处一年徒刑，他正在与起诉中合作。

“These charges are only the beginning and there will be more to come. That I can guarantee you,” said Bill Schuette, the state’s attorney general.

如果对布希和普里斯比的指控只是前奏，那么舒特绝不是保证被定罪的，即使在围绕弗林特的饮用水危机的过热情绪环境中也是如此。

Schuette在证明指控方面面临的问题是弗吉尼亚理工大学工程教授Marc Edwards的熟悉指控，他帮助揭示了Flint的主要问题，在Flint之前，在华盛顿特区，弗林特（Flint）。被承诺。”爱德华兹在电子邮件回复ENR的问题时说。新利18备用“但是，在如此众多的政府中，有很多失败，很难使肇事者负责。”

无法与Prysby和Busch的律师有关指控的评论。迄今为止，据信都没有提出无辜或有罪的认罪。

Prysby has been employed by the state’s Dept. of Environmental Quality as a district engineer and has been licensed in the state since 1993. Busch has been a supervisor with the department’s Office of Drinking Water since 2005. Prysby's most recent base salary as Environmental Engineer License 12 was $76,065 and Busch's salary as Environmental Manager 15 was $93,516.

水质向工程师收费

费用的关键部分围绕着指示房主在提供样品之前先进行潮汐费刷，并且未能在水处理厂添加抗腐蚀化学物质。

具体来说，Schuette因误导州和地方官员而在办公室中指控Busch和Prysby不当行为，未能提供安全的饮用水，故意将水样在铅水平上篡改，改变了测试结果，并串谋隐藏了他们在测试结果中所做的一切。

这些罪行“濒临灭绝的弗林特家族”，舒特在举行的一次新闻发布会上指控。

纽约州还指控普里斯比（Prysby）在授权弗林特水处理厂的运营许可证中额外的不当行为，“知道这将无法为弗林特人民提供安全的饮用水，”舒特说。该州指控普里斯比（Prysby）和布希（Busch）违反了该州的安全饮用水法案，因为他们没有向水提供抗腐败化学物质，并指示正在对水进行测试的人，以预先抽水。

该州已指控格拉斯哥重罪篡改了证据，据称对国家和联邦环境保护署进行了更改和伪造报告。

舒特，in a video interview after announcing the chargesin April, explained some of the thinking behind the charges. All crimes require a guilty act and a guilty mind, the intention to break the law, he said. If a defendant didn’t breach his or her duty in a grossly negligent way, “then potentially you don’t have a crime…just a mistake, a grossly negligent mistake.”

A mistake can lead someone to commit a crime, Schuette said, if the person who made it tries to conceal the mistake or “just turns a blind eye. That could be a problem.”

《密歇根安全饮用水法案》的文本并不能准确解释Prysby和Busch未能违反法律。

Testing, reporting, and meeting the federal drinking water standards are the responsibility of the water supplier under sections 325.1007(1) and (3) of the Michigan act. The state Dept. of Environmental Quality is tasked in those sections with fining water suppliers for violations and obtaining and analyzing samples if the supplier hasn't done so sufficiently. In this case, the supplier would be the city of Flint, with the state Dept. of Environmental Quality supervising.

Glasgow’s no-contest plea, however, is an ominous sign for Prysby and Busch, because all three were involved in decisions about the water.

根据州和咨询工程师最近发布的新闻报道和文件，该州正在监督2014年4月的弗林特河水转移到弗林特河水，当时城市和州官员决定不使用抗腐败化学物质来治疗水，并达到高潮在2015年2月的高铅级测试中。

Concern About Water Quality

Prysby和Busch的律师可以将他们的某些行为描述为关注水质的迹象。

2014年12月，普赖斯比（Prysby）和该部门发现，弗林特市（Flint）违反了《州水质法》（State Water Felus）法案，以高水平的消毒剂副产品。该部门向该市公共工程部的行动主管布伦特·赖特（Brent Wright）发送了一封有关违规行为的通知书。Wright was also one of the people who pushed for an expedited switch to Flint River water in March 2014. In February 2015, Flint’s public works director, Howard Croft, wrote a memo to Flint residents claiming that the water was safe to drink despite bacterial testing.

此后辞职的克罗夫特（Croft）也是建议接受弗林特河水的计划的两名员工之一。

州检察长办公室没有回应ENR的请求有关认罪交易，举报人规则以及针对Prysby和Busch案件的现状的要求。新利18备用

尚不清楚所谓的掩盖和所谓的意图通过采样方法旋转水测试结果，并说明包括普里斯比和布希在内的国家官员之间的工作关系，包括格拉斯哥。

其他形式的样本“作弊”

After years of campaigning against suspect methods of water testing by utilities, and the acceptance by regulators, Edwards, the Virginia Tech professor, is not making fine distinctions yet about the the defendants in the Flint charges.

爱德华兹指控：“更糟糕的是，雇员没有遵循他们为监督和执行的联邦腐蚀控制法的信件或意图，更糟糕的是，电子邮件表明，他们未能遵循未能遵循的危害法律 - 管道泄漏，军团菌和铅。他们至少努力掩盖了未能遵守法律的十倍。”

In addition to pre-flushing taps, other allegedly deceptive sampling strategies that Edwards has written about include choosing neighborhoods where predicted lead levels are low, waiting until outside temperature is low and water pH high and sampling when water is treated with free chlorine.

他声称，但是EPA拒绝干预，“因此，当涉及到潮流时，这些员工（涉及弗林特危机）当然有很多公司。”