South Dakota is charging $46.02 per hour to fulfill some open-records requests... though not all. Journalist Bob Mercer says he hasn't been charged for record requests except by state and federal courts. Reader Nick Nemec asks what rules dictate the…
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I've had the pleasure of reviewing some of the state's responses to various open records requests relating to the GOED/EB-5/Northern Beef Packers scandal. In meta-details, I notice that the Governor's Office of Economic Development has been quoting a specific hourly…
Supposedly, nine days ago, Annette Bosworth mailed her financial disclosure form to the Senate Ethics Committee. She was supposed to do so by August 11, but she begged for a 90-day extension. She didn't file by the new due date…
When Joop Bollen took South Dakota's EB-5 visa investment program shadily private in 2009, he took what looks like a pay cut. When Bollen ran the program under the South Dakota International Business Institute on the Northern State University campus,…
Last month, Attorney General Marty Jackley acceded to public pressure and promised to allow two reporters to review documents from his investigation of the suspicious Ocotber 20 death of former economic development commissioner Richard Benda. Jackley conditioned that review on…
Democratic Representative Kathy Tyler thinks the controversy surrounding the Governor's Office of Economic Development's use of the EB-5 green-card-buying program warrants Legislative scrutiny. Republican Senator Ryan Maher does not. He used his power this week to keep discussion of the…
John Hult notes that it has been one full month since Richard Benda, second director of Marion Michael Rounds's Governor's Office of Economic Development and key player in South Dakota's now-federally scrutinized EB-5 visa Ponzi scheme investment program, died of…
Attorney General Marty Jackley has had four weeks to investigate the suspicious death of former state economic development chief Richard Benda. He told the press Friday that he expects to break the state's awkward silence on this mysterious death at…