With a grant proposal of this magnitude and importance, there is no way that it wasn't reviewed and approved by the highest levels of UTEP's administration, city and county partners, as well. There's enough blame to go around to EVERYONE in the chain of command in this debacle. As far as the politicians' complaints, they are just passing the blame on to Wilson because she's the easiest target at this point.
GO MINERS!
Someone had to be the scapegoat. But a multi-million dollar error isn’t just on one person. But I guess that why the dude lawyered up.