• Three payments totaling $1.7 million inexplicably went to a holding company in Cyprus that owns Russian railway companies;

• More than $5.1 million was used to purchase a Hong Kong-based lender;

• That lender had previously provided $2.85 million as bridge financing at 29 percent interest for Northern Beef Packers in Aberdeen. The loan cost nearly $7.5 million before the purchase of the lender;

• Some $5 million can’t be found;

• Approximately $3.3 million was improperly spent on expenses;

• Money was loaned between projects;

• Incomplete and inaccurate reports were filed five consecutive years to the federal agency, including after state government took back control of South Dakota’s program on Sept. 24, 2013;

• The outside contractor who previously managed the program for state government has continued to run a website identified as South Dakota Regional Center Inc.;

• Investor agreements sometimes appeared to have been altered;

• Investors sometimes complained they couldn’t get their money back after their visa applications were refused;

• Four South Dakota dairies involved with the program filed Chapter 11 bankruptcy; and

• The federal government received 1,002 immigrant petitions by alien entrepreneurs associated with 32 projects in South Dakota, with 705 approved to date.

You may also recall then Governor Rounds’ Cabinet Member Richard Benda’s “suicide” by a shotgun blast to the abdomen.  Another man closely associated with the Rounds-Daugaard administrations, Scott Westerhuis, also supposedly killed himself (with a shotgun) after killing his wife and four children and setting their home on fire.   Apparently, dealing with the Chinese and Rounds-Daugaard administrations is not good for a person’s mental health.

You might be wondering if Bolen will offer prosecutors anything that could incriminate anyone else as part of a plea deal… say, for instance a former or present Governor.  Don’t hold your breath.  It isn’t likely that the prosecutor has much interest in going after the guy who appointed him to the job.