Yesterday the Rapid City Journal endorsed the idea that the EB-5 scandal is all you need to disqualify Mike Rounds from consideration for your vote for U.S. Senate. Here's one more example of the corruption that took place in Rounds's…
Posts tagged as “Joop Bollen”
I reported Thursday that arbitrator Robert Baines's rejection of any claims for legal fees in Darley v SDIBI knocked the legs out from any excuse the Board of Regents had for not sharing the arbitration documents with the public. The…
"We're debt-free!" shouts Dakota Turkey Growers. According to a press release processed by the Huron Plainsman today, the Huron turkey plant has paid off the loan it received in 2009. That loan was $55 million dollars from 110 foreign investors…
Before we pass a regressive tax to increase teacher pay, I know where we can get $13 million to boost our K-12 budget: Joop Bollen's pocket. Doing some excellent math, Denise Ross figures that Joop Bollen made $13 million in…
I have contended that in allowing Joop Bollen to privatize South Dakota's EB-5 program, Mike Rounds sacrificed a key competitive advantage that we had over other private EB-5 regional centers. Robert Stratmore, head of EB-5 recruiter Darley International, agrees. In…
In responses to reporter Bob Mercer's questions about South Dakota's EB-5 program, Mike Rounds downplayed his involvement in the EB-5-promoting South Dakota International Business Institute and his interaction with SDIBI director Joop Bollen: [Mercer]: EB-5 began for dairy development in…
One of the main responses Mike Rounds has offered to revelations of misconduct in the state's EB-5 visa investment program is that he didn't run EB-5; the Board of Regents did. "Mr. Bollen was an employee of the Board of…
Everything comes around.... In an October 10 blog post, Bob Mercer reported that the relationship between South Dakota's EB-5 czar Joop Bollen and Hanul Professional Law Corporation attorney James Park began in a Korean prison: According to Park’s testimony, Park…