Mysterious death of Benda (f'ed over workers and wealthy foreign investors, senate race
This guy helped set up a meat processing plant, (Gov. Rounds' big idea, Rounds now running for US senate seat) that relied on wealthy foreign investors. Plant closes down, workers don't get pay, and wealthy investors get the shaft.
Hunting "accident"??
http://rapidcityjournal.com/blog/pierre-review/mystery-enveloping-benda-s-death/article_7f8bb178-3d80-11e3-8e3f-001a4bcf887a.html
Clip from link above:
The financing relied significantly on the EB-5 visa program that focuses on foreign investors; these were channeled through the South Dakota Investment Funds Limited Partnerships, centered at Aberdeen through the South Dakota International Business Institute. The past several years, Benda worked for that investment program.
With its ties to a national immigration program for wealthy investors, and with investors jilted, workers dumped, a formidable candidate for Senate involved, and a prominent man now dead, this story could become a focus of national, international and financial reporters.
Here's the report of his death, from the people who found the body.
http://www.mitchellrepublic.com/content/brother-law-describes-finding-bendas-body
“All he told me was he found him and his gun was lying against a tree and he was lying alongside the tree or whatever,” Ray Johanneson said. “The way it looked, you couldn’t see any blood, no nothing. It looked like he had a heart attack, and (Jim) called the sheriff. When he rolled him over, he had a bullet hole in his side, so I don’t know where or what. I haven’t had a chance to visit with my brother again, so I don’t know if they found any more out or not.”
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