Abbott donors raked in over $42 million from CPRIT
Last week, the Lone Star Project released research exposing Attorney General Greg Abbott’s failure to fulfill his responsibilities as a member of the Cancer Prevention Research Institute of Texas (CPRIT) oversight board. Abbott looked the other way as taxpayer dollars were given away to businesses whose grant requests received low review scores or were not reviewed at all.
Why did Abbott fail to attend a single CPRIT oversight board meeting? (Dallas Morning News 5/11/2013)
Here’s the likely reason.
Since 2001, Greg Abbott has received nearly half a million dollars in campaign contributions from a handful of individuals who are connected to CPRIT. Companies connected to the Abbott contributors have in turn received $42,800,861 in grants from CPRIT.
Read more: http://lonestarproject.net/abbott-donors-raked-over-42-million-cprit#ixzz3BQUBktUL
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