An eager reader alerts us to an important judicial proceeding coming up this month: On Tuesday, September 23, 9:30 a.m., at the Law School in Vermillion, the 8th Circuit Court of Appeals will hear Hutterville Hutterian Brethren, et al v.…
Posts tagged as “Northern Beef Packers”
What?! Nobody brought up the EB-5/Northern Beef Packers scandal at the State Fair gubernatorial debate? My belief is beggared! Debate sponsor Farmers Union is clearly showing its organizational bias toward Republicans, obviously shielding Governor Dennis Daugaard from questions about his…
Remember how they nailed Al Capone? One of the trickiest parts the EB-5/Northern Beef Packers/Governor's Office of Economic Development scandal is figuring out whether anyone broke the law. We've gotten mixed signals from the Governor and the Attorney General about…
On January 16, 2014, Governor Dennis Daugaard asserted that Northern Beef Packers did nothing wrong in diverting $550,000 of a $1,000,000 state grant to Richard Benda and SDRC Inc. Attorney General Marty Jackley stunningly reversed that official position on July…
Senator Larry Tidemann (R-7/Brookings) says the Government Operations and Audit Committee's probe of financial misconduct in the Governor's Office of Economic Develoment and the EB-5 visa investment program are pretty much over. Over? I didn't even notice that they'd begun.…
Before Mike Rounds adopted Northern Beef Packers as his legacy-building EB-5 visa investment project, NBP's organizers were already using EB-5 style magic math to guide their business planning. We already know NBP was wildly off on their job creation projections.…
Sometimes I wonder if South Dakotans are so desperate for economic development that they'll sacrifice anything—clean air, clean water, decent roads, decent wages—to get it. And sometimes, some South Dakotans surprise me by drawing the line. Out in Hand County…
Scott Waltman gets hold of a deposition of Dennis Hellwig, the original developer and owner of Northern Beef Packers, South Dakota's most spectacular EB-5 vias investment failure. Among the interesting comments are Hellwig's hints about economic development chief Richard Benda's…