Members of the Government Operations and Audit Committee have brought forward two bills that appear to target the gross conflicts of interest in South Dakota's EB-5 visa investment program. GOAC only glancingly acknowledged these violations of state law and policy…
Posts tagged as “Richard Benda”
In my Top 30 Stories of 2014 post this morning, I noted that I wrote 172 blog posts about EB-5 this year. Here comes #173. I would never have devoted 11% of my 2014 blog output to the EB-5 visa…
Attorney General Marty Jackley held a press conference in Sisseton Friday to discuss the details and conclusions of the state's investigation of the November 22, 2014 murder-suicide that shocked Sisseton and briefly put the entire tri-state area on alert. AG…
Senator Larry Tidemann, Chair Senator Phyllis Heineman Senator Jean Hunhoff Senator Blake Curd Senator Larry Lucas Representative Dan Dryden, Vice Chair Representative Melissa Magstadt Representative Justin Cronin Representative Mark Mickelson Representative Susan Wismer These ten South Dakota legislators, the current…
In March 2013, South Dakota officials received eight subpoenas from federal officials seeking information about the state's use of the EB-5 visa investment program. Two men central to that EB-5 program were former Governor's Office of Economic Development secretary and…
Lawyers for Mike Rounds, Dennis Daugaard, and other subjects of Jeff Barth's legal action to stop destruction of EB-5 records filed their responses this week. The defendants contend that Minnehaha County Commissioner Barth has no standing, there are no records,…
The Washington Post has already picked up today's big story about Mike Rounds's admission that he knew his economic development chief Richard Benda was planning to cash in on the EB-5 funded Northern Beef Packers project that he and Rounds…
Some of my readers think David Montgomery has sold out to the good-old-boys' network on whom he and his employer depend for access and advertising dollars. If that were the case, I don't think that Sioux Falls paper would slap…