FLINT, MI -- The attorney who filed criminal charges against 15 city and state employees for their alleged roles in the Flint water crisis is off the job.

A spokesman for the Attorney General’s Office confirmed Monday, April 29, that former special prosecutor Todd Flood has been terminated by Solicitor General Fadwa Hammoud.

Flood is now off the state team investigating crimes related to the water crisis and the prosecution of eight cases related to Flint water that are pending in Genesee district and circuit courts.

The Attorney General’s Office did not immediately comment further on the separation but confirmed the “termination."

MLive-The Flint Journal could not reach Flood for comment Monday, but Flood has steadily lost standing since the election of Attorney General Dana Nessel last November.

Flood was appointed special prosecutor by former Attorney General Bill Schuette.

Neseel appointed Hammoud to lead the water prosecutions in January and later added Wayne County Prosecutor Kym Worthy to Hammoud’s team.

In March, Hammoud requested the first of two delays in the preliminary examinations of former emergency manager Darnell Earley and former Flint Department of Public Works Director Howard Croft, saying she wasn’t prepared to carry on the prosecutions without further assessing the strength of the cases Flood had built.

She requested a six-month delay in the case of former Michigan Department of Health and Human Services Director Nick Lyon just last week. The Attorney General’s Office claims millions of documents pertaining to Flint water were recently discovered “languishing” in the basement of a state-owned building.

Flood became the Flint water prosecutor in January 2016,