FLINT, MI - JANUARY 27: Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder speaks to the media regarding the status of the Flint water crisis on January 27, 2016 at Flint City Hall in Flint, Michigan.
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Rick Snyder was charged Wednesday with two counts of willful neglect of duty stemming from an investigation of the Flint water crisis.The charges, shown in an online court record, are misdemeanors punishable by up to a year in jail and a $1,000 fine.
The indictment filed by the attorney general's office is groundbreaking: No governor or former governor in Michigan's 184-year history had been charged with crimes related to their time in that office,.