CPRIT AUDIT REPORT IS ON THE LEVEL.
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The CRBCM would like to commend the Audit team for a job that is at the level within the time constraint.  The report, although partial, reveals that auditors intended to do a good job and the mess at CPRIT was blatant.  There is no aspect you could look at CPRIT to not find fault.  From cavalier rejection of applications, to payment of cronies, everything was there for the auditors to see.  Abduction of the system by universities which created phony companies (one such company got a grant before its existence),  What reviews were completed and non compliance with their own standards.  More than a messy company, CPRIT did not have a soul.  Basically, CPRIT as described, was hijacked by bandits and conspirators, people were so full of their powers, they were day and night imagining ways to detour the money.
With just 10% of projects reviewed at least 4 projects did not meet the requirements created by CPRIT.
Should time be given to the auditors to complete their work, we project that 40 or more projects will not have met CPRIT's own standards.  And that is being kind and conservative!


Basically, CPRIT was a mess, the leadership a joke, and plenty of politics and conspiracy were the rule.
CPRIT needs a soul and a vision.  Cure needs to be imagined, and steps to reach it carefully planned.

With 42% of funds going to the MD Anderson, and 15% to Baylor, the statewide vision was non-existent at CPRIT. Zero percent went to El Paso.  Basically while all resident of Houston could feel the money.  I was in Houston, I could see  many new shiny Buildings own and being built by Bio-tech companies. Tax-payers in El Paso paid for nothing!  Basically, the rest of Texas is paying bonds for the good of Houston.  On top of this, Applicants companies are now paying friends of CPRIT.  Bio-alliance is getting $1000 per application.  Why.  Tax payers have already paid for this service, this is another tax on businesses trying to pull pieces of  meat from within the jaw of the MD Anderson.  Bio-alliance may be a MD Anderson derivative.  With the complexity of the corrupt network put in place.  It is hard to determine anymore.

With half of the Money going to Houston, we are being robbed to feed the beast that is Houston.  Can CPRIT come back to its mission?  If the changes suggested are allowed to be put in place by the same team members. I really doubt it.  The legislature need to place a visionary at the head with muscle to replace contaminated apples in the bag!  It takes one rotten element to spoil the entire mission.

What is described by auditors is so bad that an outsider is needed with a big broom for a complete clean up.  For the sanity of the mission this is what should come!

CPRIT need a vision, fairness, a soul, and backbone to stand against big Universities!  CPRIT needs someone who believes CPRIT is an autonomous organization with answer to the people of Texas, not just the MD Anderson!

I was reading a commentary by a regional journalist who was trying to explain why El Paso was not getting any research fund.  "There is no institution in El Paso with matching fund available" he claimed being the reason.  Now we know this to be a pretext!  The MD Anderson could just write it has the money and CPRIT would comply.  This is what is defined as cavalier... and I don't make this stuff up!  Read the report and we can talk!