From the Houston Chronicle: Group calls for federal inquiry into CPRIT

http://blog.chron.com/medblog/2012/12/group-calls-for-federal-inquiry-into-cprit/

Group calls for federal inquiry into CPRIT

Monday, December 3, 2012

The state cancer agency’s high-profile procedural transgressions have prompted an appeal for federal law enforcement agencies to get involved.

Texans for Public Justice, an anti-political corruption group in Austin, Monday wrote the U.S. Attorney’s office in San Antonio asking it to launch an investigation into the Cancer Prevention and Research Institute of Texas’ “potential impropriety and possible illegal activity” involving in its awarding of taxpayer-funded grants to private companies.

“At the least, these connections between grant recipients and the state’s political leaders raise serious conflict-of-interest issues,” wrote Craig McDonald, director of Texans for Public Interest. “At worst, they could cross lines of legality.”