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Re: Gov. Rick Perry indicted for abuse of power for carrying out threat to veto prose
Improper grant making to political contributors of state Republican officeholders.What were they investigating him for?
The CPRIT. The Cancer Prevention and Research Institute of Texas.
The funding that Rick Perry vetoed was going to the Travis County DA's Public Integrity Unit, which at the time was going after Rick Perry's appointees on the CPRIT. It's a grant-awarding organization that was created in 2007 per a voter's proposition is supposed to be funding research on cancer, however it had been making grant requests to organizations (skipping scientific and business reviews) tied to politician contributors of Rick Perry, Greg Abbott and David Dewhurst.
Cancer-fighting agency funded projects of Perry contributor | Dallas Morning News