Murky bureaucracy as a criminal matter
"A Travis County grand jury handed up an indictment last week against a former high-ranking CPRIT official related to one of those mystery outcomes.
In this case, it was over approval of a grant that hadn’t received the proper pre-screening. What was the proper scrutiny? Hard to say precisely, since the grant was the first so-called “commercialization” award the board had made at the time. Pressure appeared to be on to get grants out the door on this new $3 billion fund.
One odd thing here is that there’s no suggestion that the indicted Jerry Cobbs was out to benefit himself or any buddies, if indeed he took bureaucratic shortcuts to get board approval of this grant. His sin may have been shading the truth to other CPRIT officials or investigators — the old story about the coverup, not the sin itself, being someone’s undoing."
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