Flint Water Bombshell: Inside Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel’s ‘Shit Show’ Flint Water Investigation

In Jordan's latest Flint water investigative story, he exposed how MI's Dem AG Dana Nessel MISLED Flint residents, ignored MAJOR legal warnings, and inserted "amateur" prosecutors to try Flint case

Hey folks, it’s Jordan.

Below is my latest Flint water investigative bombshell—published in Detroit Metro Times—that reveals major news about what was described to me as a “shit show” of an investigation launched out of the office of Democratic Attorney General Dana Nessel.

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Key news I uncovered:

• Former Michigan Governor Rick Snyder’s chief of staff Dennis Muchmore secretly testified before a one-man grand jury (a Judge). Legal experts told me Muchmore’s testimony was likely against Snyder. But, due to legal failures from Nessel’s office, the Michigan state Supreme Court tossed out their Flint criminal charges against Snyder and eight other criminal defendants—ruling that Nessel’s use of a one-man grand jury was in violation of the state constitution.
  
  “It’s against the court order for me to confirm or deny participation in that proceeding,” Muchmore tells Metro Times. “If I responded, which I would like to do, I’d be in violation and could be held in contempt of court.”
  

• After purging the original Flint water criminal investigation team—firing special prosecutor Todd Flood and chief investigator Andy Arena, Nessel appointed “amateur” prosecutors she knew and who had donated $ to her attorney general campaign.
  
  “It was a shit show,” a source with knowledge of what transpired internally in Nessel’s office’s Flint investigation tells Metro Times. “They weren’t prepared for what was coming. If you place amateurs in there to play in the big leagues, they’re probably gonna get their asses kicked.”
  

• Nessel’s office ignored MAJOR legal warnings including that their use of a one-man grand jury would be legally challenged by attorneys representing ex-Gov Snyder and other defendants. They also ignored warnings that they needed to use a taint team—which is a team of lawyers who comb through legal discovery to remove any documents or materials that is protected by attorney-client privilege. Nessel’s office DID NOT use a taint team—despite warnings—leading to a Judge ruling they had to go back and use one. This would cause a 2-year delay in the Flint prosecution.
  
  “[Flood] flat out told them before he was out the door that they needed to use a taint team,” a source familiar with Nessel’s investigation tells Metro Times. “They were well aware.”
  

• Nessel’s office misled Flint residents about the reasons Nessel fired special prosecutor Flood and then dismissed charges against eight state and city officials. From my story:

In April 2019, Nessel’s office announced it had suddenly discovered, and seized, nearly two dozen boxes it claimed contained a “trove of documents,” and devices, that had supposedly been hidden in the basement of a state building. Nessel’s office claimed the boxes contained computer hard drives, belonging to state officials, that Flood’s team had failed to search.

Days later, Nessel’s office fired Flood, claiming the boxes showed he failed to “fully and properly” pursue legal discovery over his three-year investigation. Soon after, Nessel stunned Flint residents by dropping criminal charges against eight state and city officials. In a meeting with Flint residents, Hammoud and Worthy claimed the boxes contained potential evidence Flood failed to obtain — leaving them no choice but to drop all criminal charges and restart the investigation.

“We were told at some point that we already had this information,” Worthy told a crowd of frustrated Flint residents. “We found out that it was not anything that we already had.” In totality, the duo claimed there were millions of Flint-related documents that Flood’s team hadn’t searched.

But most of what they told residents wasn’t true, according to multiple sources familiar with the Flint investigation. “It wasn’t quite the media splash it was made out to be,” a source familiar with Nessel’s investigation says.

“It wasn’t a treasure trove worth of stuff,” the source adds. The boxes contained “some” new stuff that the AG’s office’s civil division hadn’t handed over to Flood, the source explains, but contrary to Nessel’s office’s claims, the boxes primarily held duplicates, and backups, of documents and devices Flood’s team had already obtained.

Days later, Nessel’s office fired Flood, claiming the boxes showed he failed to “fully and properly” pursue legal discovery over his three-year investigation. Soon after, Nessel stunned Flint residents by dropping criminal charges against eight state and city officials. In a meeting with Flint residents, Hammoud and Worthy claimed the boxes contained potential evidence Flood failed to obtain — leaving them no choice but to drop all criminal charges and restart the investigation.

“We were told at some point that we already had this information,” Worthy told a crowd of frustrated Flint residents. “We found out that it was not anything that we already had.” In totality, the duo claimed there were millions of Flint-related documents that Flood’s team hadn’t searched.

But most of what they told residents wasn’t true, according to multiple sources familiar with the Flint investigation. “It wasn’t quite the media splash it was made out to be,” a source familiar with Nessel’s investigation says.

“It wasn’t a treasure trove worth of stuff,” the source adds. The boxes contained “some” new stuff that the AG’s office’s civil division hadn’t handed over to Flood, the source explains, but contrary to Nessel’s office’s claims, the boxes primarily held duplicates, and backups, of documents and devices Flood’s team had already obtained.

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Also, if you missed my announcement—my first book, “We The Poisoned: Exposing the Flint Water Crisis Cover Up and the Poisoning of 100,000 Americans”—will be released this summer!

Jordan