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2021-11-12 -Lurid Crime Tales-
US Federal judge approves $626 million payout to Flint residents whose water supply was poisoned by lead after city started using Flint River as a source to save money
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Posted by Skidmark 2021-11-12 00:00|| || Front Page|| [2 views ]  Top

#1 Nice of you, TW, doing the work "journalists" won't. Or can't.
Posted by Bobby 2021-11-12 05:15||   2021-11-12 05:15|| Front Page Top

#2 I do have the advantage of nearly twenty years of articles with discussions stored in the Rantburg archives, Bobby... once I figured out the right key words. I’m proud to have worked my way up to junior analyst-in-training thanks to all the examples here.
Posted by trailing wife 2021-11-12 05:28||   2021-11-12 05:28|| Front Page Top

#3 /\ The intelligence community pays people big bucks to do the exactly same thing you have been doing. Their only advantage is they have access to both Open Source and classified reporting, as well as
sophisticated Information Systems search tools. The methodology is exactly the same.
Posted by Besoeker 2021-11-12 05:47||   2021-11-12 05:47|| Front Page Top

#4 US Federal judge approves $626 million payout to Flint residents

...Actually, more likely $438,200,000 maximum after the lawyers get their cut, and possibly less. Figure actually about 125K people affected, so that reduces the best case number to about $3500/person, and I wouldn't bet the house payments on that.

We were on the 'winning' end of a major lawsuit against a state utility company here in SC a couple years ago where the newspapers were predicting at least $2500/household. Everybody GOT $150 off their electric bills, spread out over three months.

Mike
Posted by Mike Kozlowski 2021-11-12 06:34||   2021-11-12 06:34|| Front Page Top

#5 IIRC the city did that to redirect money to pensions payments for a system they could not sustain.
Posted by Procopius2k 2021-11-12 07:13||   2021-11-12 07:13|| Front Page Top

#6 Money doesn't make you non-dead from poisoned water.
Posted by Skidmark 2021-11-12 10:14||   2021-11-12 10:14|| Front Page Top

#7 And just who will be the ultimate payor of this money?
Posted by Bubba Lover of the Faeries8843 2021-11-12 17:41||   2021-11-12 17:41|| Front Page Top

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