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AMERICAN-STATESMAN STAFF
Published: 9:38 p.m. Wednesday, July 14, 2010
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A Texas A&M University professor was demoted because he raised questions about the construction of a medical building in which some A&M employees had a financial interest, according to a whistle-blower lawsuit filed in state District Court in Travis County this week against the A&M System and A&M Health Science Center .
In 2008, Robert Hash was offered a three-year contract as vice dean of academic affairs and associate professor with tenure in the center's Department of Family and Community Medicine , the lawsuit says, for which he would be paid $290,000 per year. In his second year, Hash learned about the school's new Family Medicine Practice building on Texas 47, the suit says.
"Hash then learned that certain high level employees/officers of the defendants and/or their family members had financial interests in the development and success of the Health Science Center's Highway 47 Campus," the lawsuit says.
The program at the school that would be paying for the building was losing money, yet the building would cost $37 to $38 per square foot, far above market value, the suit says.
AMERICAN-STATESMAN STAFF
Published: 9:38 p.m. Wednesday, July 14, 2010
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A Texas A&M University professor was demoted because he raised questions about the construction of a medical building in which some A&M employees had a financial interest, according to a whistle-blower lawsuit filed in state District Court in Travis County this week against the A&M System and A&M Health Science Center .
In 2008, Robert Hash was offered a three-year contract as vice dean of academic affairs and associate professor with tenure in the center's Department of Family and Community Medicine , the lawsuit says, for which he would be paid $290,000 per year. In his second year, Hash learned about the school's new Family Medicine Practice building on Texas 47, the suit says.
"Hash then learned that certain high level employees/officers of the defendants and/or their family members had financial interests in the development and success of the Health Science Center's Highway 47 Campus," the lawsuit says.
The program at the school that would be paying for the building was losing money, yet the building would cost $37 to $38 per square foot, far above market value, the suit says.
