Bob Mercer sees an important, complex, and disturbing story in the vast mess of the Governor's Office of Economic Development/EB-5 visa investment/Northern Beef Packers investigation. In the midst of a lengthy, thoughtful essay on the topic, he includes this provocative…
Posts tagged as “Richard Benda”
Richard Benda killed himself, says Attorney General Marty Jackley. Benda shot himself in the gut, says the autopsy. Here's the full release: PIERRE, S.D - Attorney General Marty Jackley announced today that the Division of Criminal Investigation has concluded its…
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…
The South Dakota Democratic Party is officially calling on Attorney General Marty Jackley to recuse himself from the investigation of financial misconduct in the Governor's Office of Economic Development. I post their press release in full, because they make the…
Rule #1 for any political scandal: follow the money. David Montgomery gives us an idea of how much money there is to follow in the EB-5 visa scandal facing South Dakota's state economic development program: millions of dollars in "closing"…
Bob Mercer reports that the Daugaard Administration has approved at least four projects funded by EB-5 visa investors since 2012: The Daugaard administration approved four projects in the past two years for a recruiter to seek foreign EB-5 investors. The…
In what is likely a long-planned response to the GOED/EB-5/Rounds/Benda scandal (anyone ready to come up with a -gate name for this story?), Marion Michael Rounds is now launching Operation Plausible Deniability. He tells David Montgomery that helping foreigners buy…