Walk into a room with a press tag and a tripod, and the first thing New Angus officials will say to you is, "We're not giving interviews at this time." Ask to record their comments to the Brown County Commission…
Posts tagged as “Northern Beef Packers”
Four weeks ago, Denise Ross posted a stunning article in the Mitchell Daily Republic that put then-Governor Mike Rounds in the room in 2009 with key players in the EB-5/Northern Beef Packers/Epoch Star financing scheme. That statement called into question…
As the Government Operations and Audit Committee sifts through the doublespeak and shifting narratives they have received from Joop Bollen, Mike Rounds, and everyone else in state government about the EB-5 program, they should consider the commentary of Aberdeen city…
KELO misreads its own poll on the effect of Northern Beef Packers and EB-5 on the U.S. Senate race. "EB-5 Has Little Effect on Voters," says the headline, introducing Ben Dunsmoor's dismissal of the potency of the issue. But we…
Some of my readers think David Montgomery has sold out to the good-old-boys' network on whom he and his employer depend for access and advertising dollars. If that were the case, I don't think that Sioux Falls paper would slap…
One more detail sneaks out of Denise Ross's report on Joop Bollen's inept management of Northern Beef Packers. The South Dakota Banking Commission may have exempted an honest-to-goodness bank from our bank franchise tax: Kang said once it became clear…
The hook in Denise Ross's blockbuster EB-5 story today is that Governor Mike Rounds attended a meeting in the Capitol with economic development chief Richard Benda, EB-5 czar Joop Bollen, Northern Beef Packers CEO David Palmer, Hanul Law Firm and…
SDRC Inc., the private company state employee Joop Bollen created to make big money on EB-5 investments in South Dakota, created an offering memorandum on January 10, 2010, that pitched Northern Beef Packers to EB-5 visa investors. That offering memorandum…