A day after declaring Richard Benda's death suicide, Attorney General Marty Jackley fingered the former economic development chief for double-dipping on $5,559.80 in travel reimbursements. Now someone (Bob Mercer doesn't name the sources, plural) ties Benda to the much larger…
Posts tagged as “Northern Beef Packers”
White Oak Global Advisors of San Francisco bought Northern Beef Packers at bankruptcy auction yesterday. They put up only $4.8 million in cash, compared to the $12.75 million in cash offered by actual meat-packing company American Foods Group of Green…
Bankrupt Northern Beef Packers of Aberdeen goes up for auction right after lunch today at the federal courthouse in Sioux Falls. In a market dominated by four big companies, guess who the first bidder is? Number Five: American Foods Group,…
The items I've posted about the Northern Beef Packers bankruptcy and the doomed slaughterhouse's crazy financing—EB-5 investor money, corporate welfare from Mike Rounds, secret emergency investors, offshore transfers—represent just a fraction of the documents, tips, and questions I've received from…
This weekend's required reading is Bob Mercer's reporting on the results of Attorney General Marty Jackley's investigations of Richard Benda's suspicious death (officially declared suicide) financial misconduct in the Governor's Office of Economic Development, Northern Beef Packers, and SDRC, the…
Rep. Peggy Gibson published a list of the state's handouts to now-bankrupt Northern Beef Packers in the Huron Plainsman last week. Her numbers match Scott Waltman's July report in the Aberdeen American News on that state aid. Here are the…
Democratic women may be leading the charge in holding the Governor's Office of Economic Development accountable for the financial misconduct and whatever other corruption the feds may be investigating in the GOED/EB-5/Northern Beef Packers scandal. Rep. Kathy Tyler (D-4/Big Stone…
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…