In what is likely a long-planned response to the GOED/EB-5/Rounds/Benda scandal (anyone ready to come up with a -gate name for this story?), Marion Michael Rounds is now launching Operation Plausible Deniability. He tells David Montgomery that helping foreigners buy…
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Bob Mercer is trying to wrap his brain around the state and federal investigations of the EB-5 visa program overseen (perhaps not overseen enough) by the South Dakota Governor's Office of Economic Development. As background, Mercer directs us to required…
In this morning's metaphor and speculation file, I notice that on June 9, 2013, Joop Bollen of 1201 North Main Street in Aberdeen applied for a permit to build a $5,000 storm shelter. If he's not done with that shelter,…
Governor Dennis Daugaard certainly isn't waiting for the public results of any state or federal investigation to render his judgment on the South Dakota Regional Center. Mr. Montgomery reports that the Governor quietly canceled our contract with the state's private…
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…