The South Dakota Democratic Party is officially calling on Attorney General Marty Jackley to recuse himself from the investigation of financial misconduct in the Governor's Office of Economic Development. I post their press release in full, because they make the…
Just when you thought the investigations of the Governor's Office of Economic Development, South Dakota's EB-5 program, and Richard Benda's mysterious death couldn't get any more complicated, reporter Bob Mercer blows it up with a new source who says the…
Amidst the mind-boggling complexities of the Governor's Office of Economic Development/EB-5 visa/Northern Beef Packers/Richard Benda/Mike Rounds scandal, I find this small kettle of stinky fish. During the first year of construction, Northern Beef Packers made at least three wire transfers…
Brookings entrepreneur Scott Meyer is somewhat concerned about the brewing scandal involving the Governor's Office of Economic Development, SDRC Inc., the EB-5 visa investor program, former GOED director Richard Benda, and former Governor Marion Michael Rounds. But Meyer is more…
The main players so far in South Dakota's GOED/SDRC/EB-5 scandal are Richard Benda, whose untimely and strangely unexplained death seems to have popped the boil of South Dakota corruption surrounding the EB-5 program, and Joop Bollen, director of the private…
Rule #1 for any political scandal: follow the money. David Montgomery gives us an idea of how much money there is to follow in the EB-5 visa scandal facing South Dakota's state economic development program: millions of dollars in "closing"…
Pat Powers outs Pierre-area Republican Jim Sheehan as author of a new blog, Republican Territory. Sheehan has been playing Federalist Papers fitfully for a bit over a year, warming his quill behind a suitably Roman superhero pseudonym with a few…
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…
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