Numerous media outlets, including the Detroit Free Press and CNN are reporting a congressional committee has issued Darnell Earley a subpoena to testify about the Flint water crisis.
Earley is a former Emergency Manager for the city of Flint. He is currently the Emergency Manager for Detroit Public Schools, but announced on Tuesday he would resign from that position on February 29, 2016.
The House Oversight Committee had earlier invited Earley to testify on Wednesday along with several other officials related to the Flint water crisis, but Earley refused.
Both CNN and the Free Press quote unnamed congressional staff members as sources of the information. Earley's attorney, A. Scott Bolden confirmed the subpoena had been issued, but said it would be impossible for Earley to be in Washington DC on Wednesday to testify.
The scheduled witness list for Wednesday includes:
Panel 1:
The Honorable Dan Kildee
Representative
United States House of Representatives
Panel 2:
Mr. Joel Beauvais
Acting Deputy Assistant Administrator
Office of Water
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
Mr. Keith Creagh
Director
Department of Environmental Quality
State of Michigan
Mr. Marc Edwards
Charles P. Lundsford Professor of Environmental and Water Resources Engineering
Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
Ms. LeeAnne Walters
Flint Resident
