Will Huron's turkey plant be drawn into the GOED/SDRC/EB-5 scandal just in time for Thanksgiving? In his solid reporting on South Dakota's newly scrutinized EB-5 visa investor program, David Montgomery notes that Dakota Provisions, the big turkey plant South Dakota…
Posts tagged as “Northern Beef Packers”
All are punishèd! In 2006, Aberdeen beef man Dennis Hellwig asked the Brown County Commission to help him build his Northern Beef Packers slaughterhouse. The commission delivered help in the form of a tax increment finance district. Under the TIF…
Folks looking to buy one slightly used, poorly built beef plant won't be able to drop in, kick the tires, and make a bid the day of sale... not without some fast driving. The auction of Aberdeen's Northern Beef Packers…
Joop Bollen, you have the right to remain silent. For your sake, you might want to exercise it. If you keep saying absurd things like the following, no one will believe anything you say: The director of the South Dakota…
I don't know much more about building beef-packing plants than the only-slightly-poorer Korean and Chinese investors who lost money on Northern Beef Packers. I only know what I read on the Internet... and what the occasional eager reader tells me.…
The SDGOP Platform Accountability project, which can't be held accountable since they remain anonymous, thinks it's a big deal that former state economic development chief Richard Benda, who died under as-yet unexplained circumstances last week, contributed money to Marion Michael…
You know that federal investigation of the South Dakota Governor's Office of Economic Development? It appears they are looking where I thought they'd be looking: Dennis Hellwig, who stepped down as Northern Beef Packers’ general partner more than four years…
Open the speculation floodgates.... Governor Dennis Daugaard announced today that Attorney General Marty Jackley and federal law enforcement have been investigating the Governor's Office of Economic Development for financial misconduct. Not his Office of Economic Development, Daugaard emphasizes, but someone…