Western Sky Financial boss Martin "Butch" Webb is trying to get the Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe to back his legally challenged predatory lending business. Webb claims that "substantial government interference" forced him to lay off 94 Eagle Butte workers last…
Posts tagged as “usury”
That Sioux Falls paper's business journal covers the booming payday loan business in Sioux Falls, which currently has 56 of the state's 186 licensed payday lenders. (South Dakota has 67 hospitals. I'll guess that South Dakota has fewer than 186…
If I didn't know Steve Hickey better, I might think he was trying to draw me in to a blog trap. Several days ago the pastor and legislator took a swipe at the Occupy movement, calling it little more than…
As expected, the House Commerce and Energy Committee stood in favor of abusive lending practices Wednesday and killed HB 1223 and 1224, the anti-usury bills proposed by Pastor and Representative Steve Hickey (R-9/Sioux Falls). The bankers and loans sharks rolled…
Father Tim reports the clever devils who don't want to confront the inconsistency of their "family values" with their support for family-wrecking payday lenders are scrambling to kill House Bills 1223 and 1224: My sources say that opponents got the…