Former Michigan governor Rick Snyder appeared in a federal courtroom in Ann Arbor on Thursday, where he told Judge Judith Levy that he would exercise his fifth amendment rights if called to testify in an ongoing civil lawsuit trial there.
Mr Snyder, a two-term Republican governor from Battle Creek, presided over the state when the drinking water in majority-Black city of Flint was contaminated with lead — exposing some 100,000 residents to dangerously-elevated lead levels.
