Abbott kept dealings of Texas Enterprise Fund under wraps
FOIFT2014-09-29T15:54:53-05:00By Wayne Slater The Dallas Morning News Originally published Sept. 28, 2014 AUSTIN — A decade ago, Attorney General Greg Abbott invoked a cloak of secrecy around the Texas Enterprise Fund. When The Dallas Morning News requested, under the Texas open-records law, a copy of the application of a company seeking taxpayer subsidies, Abbott said no. He ruled that the applications for money from the $500 million job-creation fund might contain confidential corporate information. The company was Vought Aircraft, which wanted a $35 million subsidy to expand in the Dallas area. But as it turns out, there was no application, a state audit [...]