What might we find if Rep. Kathy Tyler (D-4/Big Stone City) succeeds in her push to convene a special session and order a forensic audit of the Governor's Office of Economic Development and South Dakota's EB-5 visa investment program? How…
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The South Dakota Legislature convenes briefly Tuesday to hear Governor Dennis Daugaard deliver his budget address. It will be the first chance our elected officials have the chance to gather and look the Governor in the eye since Richard Benda's…
Bob Mercer puzzles through the deliberately dizzying financials of the EB-5 visa investment program that Joop Bollen privately and secretively administered through SDRC Inc. for the Governor's Office of Economic Development until Governor Dennis Daugaard canceled his lucrative state contract…
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…
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…