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TexasTowelie

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Thu Aug 21, 2014, 10:31 AM Aug 2014

BREAKING: Perry's legal team says PIU lead investigator found no wrongdoing regarding CPRIT

Updated: In a news conference this morning, attorneys for Gov. Rick Perry rejected allegations that Perry attempted to obstruct an on-going investigation into the Cancer Prevention Research Institute of Texas last year when he vetoed money to the Travis County district attorney’s office.

The attorneys said they had obtained a sworn affidavit from the former lead investigator for the CPRIT investigation, and that the former investigator, Chris Walling, said neither Perry nor any Perry appointee was targeted in the investigation.

“The CPRIT issue is a red herring the Democrats are trying to make float upstream, and it doesn’t work,” said Perry attorney Ben Ginsberg of Washington, D.C.

The investigation by the district attorney’s Public Integrity Unit led to the indictment last year of a former ranking CPRIT official. That case is pending.

See Twitter comments at http://www.statesman.com/news/perry-legal-team-major-announcement-082114/ .

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BREAKING: Perry's legal team says PIU lead investigator found no wrongdoing regarding CPRIT (Original Post) TexasTowelie Aug 2014 OP
nothing to see here - move along rurallib Aug 2014 #1
This reminds me of the unnamed sources in all of the Ferguson stories Gothmog Aug 2014 #2

Gothmog

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2. This reminds me of the unnamed sources in all of the Ferguson stories
Thu Aug 21, 2014, 11:32 AM
Aug 2014

There has been one indictment already in this case and the person indicted was a Perry/Abbott donor

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