I reported Thursday that arbitrator Robert Baines's rejection of any claims for legal fees in Darley v SDIBI knocked the legs out from any excuse the Board of Regents had for not sharing the arbitration documents with the public. The…
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The South Dakota Board of Regents has declined to release further documents pertaining to the EB-5-related Darley v. SDIBI litigation. At least one apologist has suggested that the Regents' and even Mike Rounds's opaqueness on EB-5 is wise, given that…
One of the main responses Mike Rounds has offered to revelations of misconduct in the state's EB-5 visa investment program is that he didn't run EB-5; the Board of Regents did. "Mr. Bollen was an employee of the Board of…
The South Dakota Board Regents refused to release the April 2014 deposition of Joop Bollen in the Darley v. SDIBI arbitration, not because they were bound by any judge's order or confidentiality agreement, but just because they didn't want to.…
Surely the South Dakota Board of Regents will spend some time at this week's meeting in Aberdeen discussing the suddenly prominent and politically potent Darley v. SDIBI litigation. But that discussion would be tucked away in the executive sessions on…
While Representative Bernie Hunhoff (D-18/Yankton) has asked the Board of Regents to release all of its files pertaining to the Darley v. SDIBI litigation (and while I'd be happy for now just to get Darley's 17.5-hour deposition of Joop Bollen),…
A mystery woman appears in the EB-5 scandal. Her name is Brick. Cherri Brick. Brick was Joop Bollen's secretary at the South Dakota International Business Institute. In March 2009, right next to declarations from her boss, from the Regents' counsel…
The South Dakota Board of Regents has been gathering evidence on the EB-5 scandal for over five years, ever since it discovered that the EB-5 coordinator who worked on the Northern State campus, Joop Bollen, concealed a lawsuit against the…