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KBA Forensic Audit Summary Page 30 of 30
Issues related to the Center of Innovation for Biomaterials in Orthopaedic Research (CIBOR)
This section summarizes the findings of the investigation of the KBA’s commitments to CIBOR conducted by Meara Welch Browne.
Audit location Issue/Question Summary
On page 22 Various parties, including state Sen. Susan Wagle
and CIBOR officials, have alleged that the KBA
made and then reneged on a commitment to
provide CIBOR with $20 million in funding over
five years.
Meara Welch Browne conducted multiple interviews with current and former KBA employees and
board members, CIBOR employees and affiliates, and others, including Sen. Wagle and officials at
another of the centers of innovation. They examined more than 450 documents provided by the
KBA and by CIBOR. MWB: “Our forensic procedures did not identify any documents, records, or
correspondence where the KBA made or appeared to make a firm economic commitment of a $20
million award to CIBOR. Additionally, no one we spoke with from CIBOR and its affiliates indicated
that oral representations of a firm commitment of $20 million were made directly to them” (p.
13).