According to Wikipedia, U.S. Senate candidate Mike Rounds was born on October 24, 1954. The Legislative Research Council says that's true. Rounds's birthday this year falls on a Friday. Bob Mercer received a flyer indicating that someone on Team Rounds…
Posts tagged as “Richard Benda”
Dakota War College has tried to brand itself as the main outlet for all news "SDSenate2014," yet DWC author Powers has doggedly avoided discussing any of the big news that has made South Dakota's U.S. Senate race nationally newsworthy. Powers's…
Oh my. Did you see the EB-5 document Bob Mercer posted today? Mercer reports this letter "was given" (Bob! Passive voice?! You're killing me!) "to EB-5 recruiters for South Dakota in August 2007 to be used in pursuing investors in…
A mystery woman appears in the EB-5 scandal. Her name is Brick. Cherri Brick. Brick was Joop Bollen's secretary at the South Dakota International Business Institute. In March 2009, right next to declarations from her boss, from the Regents' counsel…
Sorry, Jeff Barth: your lawsuit is already too late to stop the state from destroying some EB-5 evidence. Seth Tupper finds the state deleted Richard Benda's e-mails just weeks after he jumped the ship of state with his half-million-dollar life…
Mike Rounds gave an interview to the Rapid City Journal this week that reinforces the GOP narrative of using the departed Richard Benda as fall guy for any further corruption we may uncover in the Governor's Office of Economic Development…
Yesterday Sixth Circuit Judge Kathleen Trandahl upheld a hearing examiner's May ruling that Attorney General Marty Jackley can keep secret his investigation of Richard Benda's death. Judge Trandahl's ruling applies SDCL 1-27-1.5(5), which exempts criminal investigation records from our public…
Remember how they nailed Al Capone? One of the trickiest parts the EB-5/Northern Beef Packers/Governor's Office of Economic Development scandal is figuring out whether anyone broke the law. We've gotten mixed signals from the Governor and the Attorney General about…