AT CPRIT,
The foundation has been deemed a NON Government body by the District Attorney.
A senator had requested that files from the CPRIT Foundation be opened under Disclosure rules and the Foundation had refused to comply, claiming it was a non government institution because of its private funding source. The district Attorney was asked to rule on the matter. Now she has ruled for the foundation.
Reportedly, the Senator has not given up and has requested the Senate make the foundation a Government institution. We at CRBCM are just watching the power play. These games will just delay the fight for the CURE (if any). Meanwhile budget discussion for new funding for CPRIT was once again by-passed, and the remaining 183 Million $ are still frozen. There is a growing concern about the future of CPRIT and Health programs are caught in this messy uncertainty!
2 major officials are still waiting to be deposed by investigators while the criminal investigation is ongoing! They reportedly were not heard by the senate because doing so would have given them automatic immunity protections.
The Audit is still ongoing and still discovering new irregularities, with over 300 more funded projects to review, they have their work cut out!
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Thursday, February 28, 2013
Monday, February 25, 2013
CPRIT DID HOLD A MEETING TODAY AS PROMISED
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It is our understanding that this meeting was intended to wrap up paperwork with the winners of the last
round of CPRIT deliberations. The giving of money is however still under moratorium. I refuse to comment on the winners because it was the same old dance with the MD Anderson getting 42% of all contracts!
The meeting came under a lot of tension and uncertainty. With news that there won't be an annual meeting at CPRIT this year. With exclusion from the Texas budget in 2014 and 2015, CPRIT future is more than uncertain. The dance seems to wrap up despite everybody's belief in the reason for CPRIT.
The leadership at CPRIT has been so shaken that we are still waiting to see new initiatives to depict and profile a new CPRIT. The time would have been now to start a new posture and new direction. Wrapping up old deals without showing a new organization was an opportunity missed. Particularly when a new 1 Million Dollar contract is revealed to be just as fraudulently awarded as other previously described. If you give me time and again money, I just may find my way to $100,000 furniture. We are human after all!
NEW CPRIT PLEASE COME OUT OF THE SHADOW OF THE OLD CPRIT ! THE SENATORS ARE WATCHING, PLEASE CONVINCE THEM!
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It is our understanding that this meeting was intended to wrap up paperwork with the winners of the last
round of CPRIT deliberations. The giving of money is however still under moratorium. I refuse to comment on the winners because it was the same old dance with the MD Anderson getting 42% of all contracts!
The meeting came under a lot of tension and uncertainty. With news that there won't be an annual meeting at CPRIT this year. With exclusion from the Texas budget in 2014 and 2015, CPRIT future is more than uncertain. The dance seems to wrap up despite everybody's belief in the reason for CPRIT.
The leadership at CPRIT has been so shaken that we are still waiting to see new initiatives to depict and profile a new CPRIT. The time would have been now to start a new posture and new direction. Wrapping up old deals without showing a new organization was an opportunity missed. Particularly when a new 1 Million Dollar contract is revealed to be just as fraudulently awarded as other previously described. If you give me time and again money, I just may find my way to $100,000 furniture. We are human after all!
NEW CPRIT PLEASE COME OUT OF THE SHADOW OF THE OLD CPRIT ! THE SENATORS ARE WATCHING, PLEASE CONVINCE THEM!
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