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Posts tagged as “Richard Millner”

Collateral EB-5 Damage: Millner Still Cheating South Dakota of Taxes

In his embarrassing debate performance Saturday, GOP Senate candidate Marion Michael Rounds made the stretchy claim that South Dakota lost no taxpayer dollars on EB-5. Maybe Rounds can semantically argue that selling green cards to rich foreign investors who then…

Millner’s Lake County Dairy Delinquent on 2011 Property Taxes

Hey, you know that big dairy operation up by Ramona whose management has a history of breaking environmental rules and dodging taxes? Lake County Dairy LLC, managed by Rick Millner? Guess who's delinquent on Lake County property taxes: The Lake…

Supreme Court Backs Millner and Veblen Dairy; ND Dairy Hosts Drug Deal

The South Dakota Supreme Court has closed another chapter in Richard Millner's dairy shenanigans in Veblen. In a unanimous decision issued Wednesday, the justices upheld Fifth Circuit Judge Jack Von Wald's issuance of summary judgment in favor of defendants Richard…

Millner Brings Veblen East Immigrant Staff, Risks to Lake County

I won't spend a lot of time blogging about a reporter reporting on my blogging. But my blogging about the Veblen dairies has become part of the story, as Mikkel Pates includes me in his in-depth coverage of the ongoing…

Millner Bringing Harmful Dairy Practices, Attitude to Lake County

Lake County, watch out: Rick Millner is in the building—the dairy building, that is. In a weeklong series, AgWeek's Mikkel Pates is chronicling the dairy deeds and misdeeds of Veblen's Rick Millner. The first story of that series presents Rick…

Bankruptcy Trustee Offers Dairy Dozen-Veblen Investors 1/10,000 Return

The courts are wrapping up another messy parcel of the dairy empire that serial polluter Rick Millner of Veblen mismanaged into bankruptcy. The United States Bankruptcy Court of the District of South Dakota has received the final trustee's report concerning…

Millner Refund Request Illuminates Vista Dairy Bid on Veblen East

New documents from the bankruptcy proceeedings concerning the Veblen East industrial dairy in northeast South Dakota shed light on the machinations Richard Millner and the former owners of Veblen East undertook last fall in their failed attempt to cling to…

Ramona Dairy Has New Owner: Rick Millner Coming to Lake County?

Funny how things come together. Floyd Swier's dairy up by Ramona went out of business recently. It was purchased at the beginning of May for $1,505,000 by Lake County Dairy LLC. Don't be fooled by the name: It's not a…