Like Madville Times readers and Independent gubernatorial candidate Mike Myers, the Mitchell Daily Republic is not satisfied with Attorney General Marty Jackley's conclusions that Richard Benda killed himself and that Benda's double-billed travel reimbursements and a diversion of $550,000 from…
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The latest Madville Times poll finds reader confidence in the South Dakota Attorney General's office about as high as public confidence in Congress. Last week, AG Marty Jackley declared that former Governor's Office of Economic Development chief Richard Benda committed…
All I can say are good things. That line came at the end of a hard conversation I had last night. That conversation was a lot harder for the person on the other end of the line, the person who…
Vote now in the latest Madville Times poll, which asks two key questions to gauge public confidence in the state's top law enforcement official: Do you believe Attorney General Marty Jackley's conclusion that Richard Benda committed suicide? Do you believe…
Jonathan Ellis digs into Richard Benda's personal life in today's Sioux Falls paper. Ellis paints a man of high ambition and intensity—"really high strung," says Watertown lawyer Lee Schoenbeck—with mounting personal troubles. Wind power promoter Steve Wegman says Benda came…
This weekend's required reading is Bob Mercer's reporting on the results of Attorney General Marty Jackley's investigations of Richard Benda's suspicious death (officially declared suicide) financial misconduct in the Governor's Office of Economic Development, Northern Beef Packers, and SDRC, the…
Attorney General Marty Jackley says Richard Benda cheated the state out of $5,559.80 by double billing three airline tickets while serving as Governor M. Michael Rounds's former economic development chief. The narrative the state appears to be selling is that…
Michael Myers doesn't think South Dakota is being run well. The independent candidate for governor says people he talks to think the Daugaard Administration is not being honest about misconduct in the Governor's Office of Economic Development and the EB-5…