Beleageured Co-op Denies Responsibility, Exits Stage Left The Department of Legislative Audit has released two important documents: its audit report for the Mid-Central Educational Cooperative for…
Tag: corruption
Mike Huether apparently has his own internal corruption scandal on his hands. After firing Fire Chief Jim Sideras two months before his planned retirement, banning Sideras from…
Hey, Kristi! You know all those fears you like to fan about fraud in food stamps? Well, the feds have found fourteen million dollars’ worth of food…
In another reminder of how much harder Vermont has tackled EB-5 corruption than South Dakota, Vermont Governor Phil Scott held a press conference Thursday to announce that…
In a April 6, 2017, letter, 20 legislators led by Representative Elizabeth May (R-27/Kyle) ask their colleagues on the Government Audit and Operations Committee to hold public…
Yesterday Represent South Dakota submitted a constitutional amendment to the Legislative Research Council for review. Here’s the full text of that amendment for our review.…
Represent South Dakota wasn’t able to stop the Legislature from repealing Initiated Measure 22, the anti-corruption measure voters passed last November. Thus, they are proposing a constitutional…
The pivotal argument in the GEAR UP trials may be a political argument: Guericke’s defense attorney, Mike Butler, says his client’s only crime was trusting Scott…
Senate Bill 151 shows how differently two legislative chambers can view a issue. This anti-corruption measure, creating new provisions for reporting and investigating public corruption, breezed…
Governor Dennis Daugaard cheers final passage yesterday of four bills relating to corruption: Today #SDLeg gave final passage to HB1052, HB1073, HB1076, and SB27 –…