Note: links like this - "[1]" are referenced at the bottom of the petition.

In light of new information [1] which shows complicity of the Michigan Attorney Generals Office in:

A knowing and self acknowledged failure to protect the good people of Flint from harmful and illegal health practices, and subsequent inability to follow EPA rules and health standards.

and self acknowledged failure to protect the good people of Flint from harmful and illegal health practices, and subsequent inability to follow EPA rules and health standards. A "business as usual" approach to shielding the illegal actions of others , primarily the political and personally associated, from being forced to take action or undergo public, and fair, trial proceedings.

, primarily the political and personally associated, from being forced to take action or undergo public, and fair, trial proceedings. Recent assurances made to Rick Snyder himself that he would not be charged with any crime, despite an investigation still ongoing, and events in the crisis still unfolding...

In addition, we do have clear evidence that RICO statutes were, indeed, violated during investigations [3]. These clear violations, on their own, should be cause for a Federal Investigation in to the misconduct.

We, the people of America, and the World at large, petition you to:

Charge Bill Schuette, Rick Snyder, and all parties negligent in the Flint Water Crisis in Federal Court. We recognize that there can simply be no fair justice while Bill Schuette is Attorney general, and the cases are tried in Michigan. Remove Mr Schuette from jurisdiction over each and every Flint Water Crisis case. Mr Schuette, through new reports, has been implicated within the cases themselves[2], and we now know that he, or an individual on his staff working in his stead, may have engaged in illegal actions directly relevant to the case. Mr Schuett has clear conflicts of interest in these cases. To continue, with him presenting and forwarding the charges, is a clear travesty of justice.

We are your constituents, neighbors, and friends... And we demand equal justice under the law, as is the stated principal of this great Nation.

We believe it necessary and just to charge Bill Schuette, and Governor Rick Snyder with RICO violations and criminal negligence in Federal Court, in light of the above allegations, as well as gross misconduct and intentional false reporting while investigating, and reporting each case. Please, we beg you to initiate, and see through this process, before more Flint citizens become sick, or the damage becomes irreversible, forever.

Thank you, sincerely. America, the World audience, and hundreds of thousands of people, living in flint, whose very lives are at stake... Are counting on you.

Sources:

[1] Egan, Paul. "Schuette's Office OK'd Flint Order in Alleged Tainted-water Crimes." Detroit Free Press. N.p., 28 Dec. 2016. http://www.freep.com/story/news/local/michigan/flint-water-crisis/2016/12/27/schuettes-office-okd-flint-order-alleged-tainted-water-crimes/95867220/. Accessed: 28 Dec. 2016.

[2]"Six More Charged in Flint Water Crisis, but Still No Accountability for Snyder"

29 July 2016

http://www.commondreams.org/news/2016/07/29/six-more-charged-flint-water-crisis-still-no-accountability-snyderAccessed: 28 Dec. 2016.

[3] "Michigan Violated Ethics rules in Flint Water Scandal"

07 January 2017 http://flintwaterscandal.com/michigan-violated-ethics-rules-in-flint-water-scandal