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Posts tagged as “Pat Costello”

Smoke, No Fire: Federal Information Requests to GOED Appear Routine

Governor Dennis Daugaard's economic development chief Pat Costello stirred us up a bit at the Legislature's March 7 hearing on the Governor's Office of Economic Development when he announced that in addition to the federal investigation of GOED's handling of…

Daugaard Approving EB-5 Projects, But Not Actively Promoting Them

Bob Mercer reports that the Daugaard Administration has approved at least four projects funded by EB-5 visa investors since 2012: The Daugaard administration approved four projects in the past two years for a recruiter to seek foreign EB-5 investors. The…

GOED Took Control of SDRC Bank Accounts in August 2012

What did they know and when did they know it? In the investigations of financial misconduct in the Governor's Office of Economic Development, we don't know much about the answer to the first question. Indications are that the feds are…