As I mentioned, for the most part there's a very structured and legitimate process that exists at SDTC to approve new funding. There are multiple employees who are involved, and there are multiple levels of due diligence that have to be completed, which take, for the most part, almost six months to complete.
The examples I would mention are times when the project would come into SDTC and get selected for due diligence and a fast track, even though the company might have never applied in an official capacity. During the due diligence stages, on multiple occasions there were times when the external reviewers and the internal reviews that employees would do clearly pointed out that the project should not be funded, yet all of those decisions were overruled by executives and then forced into the board for final approval.