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…
Posts tagged as “EB-5”
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…
Chairman Gant and Legislature Missed Opportunity for Strong Oversight My friend Scott Meyer asked in a provocative column last weekend why then-Governor Mike Rounds and current Governor Dennis Daugaard chose to focus South Dakota's EB-5 visa investor program on huge…
Some of my friends and readers (lots of overlap in that category!) have been asking why we're not hearing more from South Dakota Democrats on the investigations of financial misconduct in the Governor's Office of Economic Development and South Dakota's…
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…
Here's another reason Marion Michael Rounds may have thought EB-5 visa investment was a good program for South Dakota: his lawyer friends stand to make some extra money. The companies that have sprung up nationwide to administer EB-5 visa programs,…
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…
Will Huron's turkey plant be drawn into the GOED/SDRC/EB-5 scandal just in time for Thanksgiving? In his solid reporting on South Dakota's newly scrutinized EB-5 visa investor program, David Montgomery notes that Dakota Provisions, the big turkey plant South Dakota…