Updated: Travis DA Says CPRIT Investigation is Ongoing
Updated, Jan. 23, 4 p.m.:
The Travis County district attorney’s office clarified on Wednesday that its criminal investigation of the Cancer Prevention and Research Institute of Texas “is ongoing and aggressive.” The comments followed assurances made Tuesday by a spokesman for CPRIT, chairman Jimmy Mansour, that "CPRIT, as an organization, and all current board members, are free from suspicion in the ongoing CPRIT investigation."
“Chairman Mansour and other current CPRIT board members are not under suspicion in the investigation,” Travis County District Attorney Rosemary Lehmberg said in a statement, adding that her office may continue to question CPRIT ...
Comments (9)
Debbie Mason via Texas Tribune on Facebook
I just have no words for him.
Neil Moyer via Texas Tribune on Facebook
Really slow on stopping this fraud!
Arthur M. Thomas IV via Texas Tribune on Facebook
It shouldn't be funded by the state at all. All it has done is robbed people of their money to donate on actual worthy causes. CPRIT has been used as a political tool and a mockery of scientific research.
Johnny Hughes via Texas Tribune on Facebook
We gamblers call being diagnosed with cancer, "drawing the red queen." We call Jesus by his road name, Jerusalem Slim.
hans5162@ix.netcom.com hans
There's a concept that's been slow to catch on with our Republican dominated state. It's called pay as you go. If you're going to fund cancer research, then fund it, but don't borrow the money to do it. If it's important enough to do, then raise taxes to do it. Perhaps then, it would be more difficult for Governor Dumbass and his cronies to use it as another slush fund.
Diana Brownfield
I am in total agreement with the comments regarding CPRIT! I work in research at UT Houston Medical School. This was an outrage and an insult to valid research funding. Further, my observations about cancer research is that no one intends tor cure cancer no matter how much money you throw at it. The country is all about creating jobs. Can you imagine how many jobs would be lost if there was no cancer research or treatment? What a doimino effect! In the TMC at MD Anderson Cancer institution there are huge elaborate buildings with lush gardens and furnishings and more going up everyday. How is all that supposed to help cure cancer. We know how many they help. Do you know how many get turned AWAY!? The money is in treatments for cancer, not curing cancer.
Lance Lowry via Texas Tribune on Facebook
Can anyone say the word "Sharpstown."
Pickles Sorrell
There is more to this Mr. Mansour's role than he will admit. Dig, dig, dig Ms. Lehmberg; then indict, indict, indict.
Mack Green
Diana reveals a concept of present society: money (and jobs) are in treating cancer, not curing cancer.
Likewise, is the money and jobs for prisons and jails more valuable to society than preventing the causes of crime? Is hospital and clinic money and jobs more valuable than preventing the causes of disease? Is the money and jobs running a vast social welfare net more valuable than diminishing the causes of poverty? Is just "doing something" more valuable than finding an understanding of WHY you are having to do it? Fixing the cause rather than the effect is a better and longer lasting use of society's energy.