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Darnell Earley, the former emergency manager in Flint, has been subpoenaed to testify before congress over the Flint water crisis, WDIV reports.
Earley had initially been invited to testify, but blew off the invitation.
The House Oversight Committee issued the subpoena Tuesday night for him to testify Wednesday morning, WDIV's Mara MacDonald reports. But it doesn't appear that he'll show up.
"At 6 p.m. tonight after off-and-on discussions, they issued a subpoena, failed to serve him, demanding in that subpoena that he appear at 9 a.m.," A. Scott Bolden, attorney for Earley, told Local 4. "They sent it to me, when they knew that I was not authorized nor would I accept service to that subpoena because it would be impossible to get Mr. Earley to Washington in less than 24 hours. It’s just physically impossible and yet that is the demand that the committee put on Mr. Earley and me.
MacDonald reports that his attorney is in discussions to bring Earley to testify at a later date.
Earley, who is the emergency manager for the Detroit Public Schools, had just announced Tuesday that he's stepping down from the position later this month.
He has faced criticism over the rundown conditions of the schools.
Rep. Elijah Cummings of Maryland, the committee's ranking Democrat, said that Earley "has a right to assert the Fifth Amendment" and not testify, "but his abrupt resignation earlier today and his refusal to testify . . . make it even more urgent that we hear directly from the governor," Todd Spangler of the Detroit Free Press reports.
The hearing will be televised live on C-SPAN 3:
