Last week, Daily Caller investigative reporter Luke Rosiak presented powerful evidence of corruption on the part of local officials in Flint, Michigan. As Rosiak explained, it appears that the officials misspent $100 million in EPA money.
Now, Rosiak is continuing to expose Flint officials’ corruption in another thread, and the evidence against them is even more damning:
Flint begged the federal government for $100M in water funding, citing emergency. Then it gave the contract to a firm with no experience, threw out the map of where lead pipes are, and let them dig up every single yard w/ an extremely slow, archaic methodhttps://t.co/UiOACrzyaN
— Luke Rosiak (@lukerosiak) May 6, 2019
After a Flint-based, white-owned company w/ extensive relevant experience won the bid, city threw it out. To justify giving work to a company w/ no experience (leaders cited black ownership), they said it would hire a subcontractor w/ qualifications. (Then they stiffed the sub.)
— Luke Rosiak (@lukerosiak) May 6, 2019
Flint is a city (town, really) with 90,000 people, and got 700 MILLION DOLLARS that flowed through a bunch of corrupt, small-time crooks. No one nationally thought to ask where this money was going, just whether there was enough of it. The truth is insanehttps://t.co/UiOACrzyaN
— Luke Rosiak (@lukerosiak) May 6, 2019
Flint gave its aid $ to an unqualified contractor, bragging that it was black-owned.
It dug holes in the wrong places using comically slow techniques. Its employees allegedly sold drugs on the job. Meanwhile, people with lead pipes waited.https://t.co/UiOACrzyaN
— Luke Rosiak (@lukerosiak) May 6, 2019
The feds and state gave $700M to small-town leaders of dubious ability & no one — not NYT, et. al — thought to ask how it was spent, only whether it was enough.
Locals feel neglected bc of this untold part of their story, how their own leaders squandered the aid we gave them. https://t.co/k1x1g8sB68
— Luke Rosiak (@lukerosiak) May 6, 2019
University of Michigan gave Flint a map that told them where the lead pipes were, with 94% accuracy. Flint ignored it & dug up every front yard for no reason (vast majority pointless) — prolonging the perceived 'crisis' and leaving people who actually had lead pipes waiting. https://t.co/y2cZDUvAIz
— Luke Rosiak (@lukerosiak) May 7, 2019
A politically-connected contractor charged taxpayers by how many holes they dug, so the city had them dig holes everywhere to "explore" whether there were lead pipes there, rather than just using the map. When an engineer objected, city hall official threatened "trouble" for him
— Luke Rosiak (@lukerosiak) May 7, 2019
Another contractor used proper equipment & worked far faster than the incompetent/connected one. Was poised to fix the whole lead problem quickly, before the other contractor could bill $
So Flint BANNED the use of appropriate high-tech digging equipmenthttps://t.co/UiOACrzyaN
— Luke Rosiak (@lukerosiak) May 7, 2019
Competent reporting on the Flint water crisis would include "hydrovac" (banning equipment that would fix the problem quickest) & the "predictive model" (ignoring the map that tells you where the lead is)
NYT etc would rather do fear-mongering sob stories on water w/ no substance
— Luke Rosiak (@lukerosiak) May 7, 2019
Infuriating. Shameful. Appalling.
— Dana Loesch (@DLoesch) May 7, 2019
UNREAL https://t.co/R524QrlCkW
— Seth (@dcseth) May 7, 2019
The people in charge of this should be jailed. https://t.co/Opu9LabWF9
— PoliMath (@politicalmath) May 7, 2019
Absolutely.
We’ll leave you with this further reading from Rosiak — if you can stomach it:
Here are my last 3 stories on the true story of Flint, all of which IMO are shocking:https://t.co/UiOACrzyaNhttps://t.co/zJLkCSwZZ2https://t.co/qQkKplDBet
Be sure to watch the videos of Flint's insane councilman ranting. He was the finance chair!
— Luke Rosiak (@lukerosiak) May 7, 2019