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Posts tagged as “Northern State University”

NSU President Says Bollen Walked Off with State’s EB-5 Files

Northern State University has been raising some challenges to accessing records relating to the state's EB-5 program, which operated on the NSU campus under the banner of the South Dakota International Business Institute until the end of 2009. But in…

Board of Regents Ran SDIBI/EB-5 on Fire-and-Forget Mode

A fellow researcher asked the South Dakota Board of Regents for documents relating to the creation of the South Dakota International Business Institute, the entity that ran South Dakota's suspect EB-5 program as an administrative unit of Northern State University…

NSU to Legislature in 2008: EB-5 Investors Only Want Big Projects

Chairman Gant and Legislature Missed Opportunity for Strong Oversight My friend Scott Meyer asked in a provocative column last weekend why then-Governor Mike Rounds and current Governor Dennis Daugaard chose to focus South Dakota's EB-5 visa investor program on huge…

Rounds Signed Off on Unchecked EB-5 Authority for Pal Bollen

Marion Michael Rounds says he didn't read the contract, but David Montgomery writes that Rounds signed off on the plan to turn South Dakota's EB-5 visa investor program over to an insufficiently supervised private operator Joop Bollen: Then-Gov. Mike Rounds…