Want more answers on the GOED/EB-5/Benda scandal? So do South Dakota's newspapers. Four—four!—big dailies across the state say the Legislature is not faithfully executing its charge to investigate the strange shuffling of EB-5 visa investment money that resulted in a…
In November 2013, South Dakota Attorney General Marty Jackley staked out the public position that there was no prosecutable violation of state law that justified his taking action against Northern Beef Packers, SDRC Inc., Joop Bollen, or anyone else to…
Last December, reporter Bob Mercer asked Attorney General Marty Jackley to release records from the investigation of Richard Benda's unusual death. Mercer wanted the public to see those records to address widely circulating doubts about the validity of AG Jackley's…
Attorney General Marty Jackley makes the following statement in favor of allowing the public to see documents related to an investigation in which the public has questioned the conclusions and actions of state law enforcement: "I think the public should…
I had a long drive yesterday, with plenty of time to think about Joop Bollen, Richard Benda, and their scheme to get rich funneling EB-5 money to TransCanada's Keystone XL pipeline. But it only took me about ten minutes out…
Scott Waltman gets hold of a deposition of Dennis Hellwig, the original developer and owner of Northern Beef Packers, South Dakota's most spectacular EB-5 vias investment failure. Among the interesting comments are Hellwig's hints about economic development chief Richard Benda's…
The GOED/EB-5/Benda scandal has connections to Northern Beef Packers, mega-dairies, Hutterites, Hyperion, the Philippines, and Mike Rounds. Now we add Keystone XL. Jonathan Ellis fills our Easter baskets with the revelation that Rounds pals Joop Bollen and Richard Benda were…
U.S. Senate candidate Marion Michael Rounds talked to KXLG Radio in Watertown Friday about the EB-5 visa investment program, Northern Beef Packers, and his former economic development chief Richard Benda. Candidate Rounds, who eagerly embraced the EB-5 green-cards-for-cash program as…
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