Last September, when everybody connected with Mid-Central Educational Cooperative and the Department of Education was running scared from possible connections to the exploding GEAR UP scandal, former Secretary of…
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USCIS Rejects State’s Arguments to Keep EB-5, Cites This Blog to Support Regional Center Termination
The federal government is sticking with its assessment that South Dakota state government is too corrupt to be trusted with the EB-5 visa investment program.…
In picking Virginia Senator and former DNC chair Tim Kaine as her running mate, Hillary Clinton makes no splash. (Has she ever?) She plays it safe, matches…
According to state prosecutors, GEAR UP/Mid-Central corruption scandal defendant Stacy Phelps and his attorney Dana Hanna are sitting on evidence that could help establish the state’s case…
The Koch Brothers’ first media attacking Initiated Measure 22, the Anti-Corruption Act, are remarkably lacking in design quality and fact. The Americans for Prosperity’s freshly populated website, Defeat22.com, offers…
Speaking of EB-5, Vermont, the only state besides South Dakota to run its own EB-5 program, has quickly secured a financial settlement in its EB-5 scandal. Just two…
Republican blogger John Tsitrian makes two remarkable statements in his July 4 post on corruption and voting in South Dakota. In the undercard, Tsitrian says…
Lakota Country Times editor Brandon Ecoffey is one of the few voices in the press who has spoken up in defense of Stacy Phelps, the former GEAR…
Stacy Phelps ate out a lot on GEAR UP’s dime. So suggest the exhibits attached to Attorney General Marty Jackley’s notice filed this week in State v. Phelps,…
Jean Koehler, vice-president of First Dakota National Bank in Mitchell, would like to hold an auction. She needs Judge Bruce Anderson’s permission to do so;…