October 22, 2014

Rounds admits he knew aide was headed to beef plant he'd just authorized $600,000 in state loans for

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2014/10/22/1338375/-Rounds-admits-he-knew-aide-was-headed-to-beef-plant-he-d-just-authorized-600-000-in-state-loans-for
"In a huge admission, former South Dakota Gov. Mike Rounds, who is running for Senate, acknowledged Tuesday that he did in fact know that a top former cabinet official, Richard Benda, was going to work for investors running a meatpacking concern called Northern Beef, right around the same time that Rounds signed off on a special $600,000 state loan package to the company that Benda had urged. That money went directly into Benda's pockets, as he paid himself $225,000 a year to oversee the now-failed plant."