EB-5 czar Joop Bollen's response to the Government Operations and Audit Committee's inquiry into his activities on behalf of the State of South Dakota is rich with innuendo, insult, and absurdity. The greatest absurdity packed into his literary fabrication is…
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Among the highlights from the Government Operations and Audit Committee hearing happening right now on the EB-5 scandal, Board of Regents exec Jack Warner provides the first direct answer we've heard as to why the state didn't fire EB-5 czar…
As the Government Operations and Audit Committee sifts through the doublespeak and shifting narratives they have received from Joop Bollen, Mike Rounds, and everyone else in state government about the EB-5 program, they should consider the commentary of Aberdeen city…
In March 2013, South Dakota officials received eight subpoenas from federal officials seeking information about the state's use of the EB-5 visa investment program. Two men central to that EB-5 program were former Governor's Office of Economic Development secretary and…
During his Senate campaign, candidate Mike Rounds insisted repeatedly that, as governor, he had no involvement with the "transactional details" of South Dakota's visa investment program. When asked by the Government Operations and Audit Committee who worked out the details…
Mike Rounds has gotten by with a big lie; now his EB-5 czar, Joop Bollen, tries to do the same thing. Here is the audacious central narrative of Joop Bollen's response (don't forget page 20!) to the Government Operations and…
Joop Bollen has finally complied with the Government Operations and Audit Committee's request for information about the EB-5 visa investment program that he ran for the state. GOAC has posted his November 10 e-mail response (plus the page 20 that…