The South Dakota Legislature will at least have some conversation about the EB-5 visa investment program in the coming months. After House State Affairs shot down two Democratic proposals for stronger oversight and investigation of the questionably managed green-cards-for-sale program,…
Posts tagged as “China”
Governor Daugaard is clearly teasing me. How can I resist? FOR RELEASE: Monday, December 16, 2013 CONTACT: Natalie Likness, Governor’s Office of Economic Development, 605.773.3301 Gov. Daugaard Returning to China, Inviting Business Leaders to Join Him PIERRE, S.D. – This…
Regular readers know I enjoy Sam Kephart's commentaries. The 2008 GOP Senate primary candidate offered us his penetrating insights on South Dakota Republican Party politics and "corporate kleptocracy" in a wide-ranging interview this summer. This weekend Kephart wins promotion from…
What's it going to take to get Dakota War College to talk about the EB-5 visa scandal? I've shown how the chair of the South Dakota Democratic Party was instrumental in approving the doomed EB-5 investment black hole Northern Beef…
My Chinese is worse than Mike Rounds's. But luckily for Rounds and China, everybody speaks dollar. The Chinese state news office archives this article from July 2009 showing then-Governor Rounds, his economic development chief Richard Benda, and EB-5 visa hustler…
John Morrell's workers in Sioux Falls will soon see their checks printed in Mandarin: Chinese meat processor Shuanghui International Holdings Ltd. has agreed to buy Smithfield Foods Inc. for approximately $4.72 billion in a deal that will take the world’s…
The State Department's report to Congress on its decision to deny TransCanada its permit for the Keystone XL tar sands pipeline makes clear that nixing this pipeline now "is unlikely to have a substantial impact on U.S. employment, economic activity,…
Michele Bachmann was right! The effort to phase out incandescent light bulbs really is a Communist plot... Chinese Communist! China announced Friday it will phase out incandescent light bulbs within five years in an attempt to make the world's most…