I will be the first to say this is a travesty of justice;

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) – The FBI has closed its investigation into South Dakota’s investment-for-visa program and the U.S. Attorney’s office has decided not to pursue prosecution.

I have often said besides the fact that Joop Bollen and Mike Rounds are having memory issues when it comes to EB-5, the lynchpin of this entire fiasco is Benda’s death report.

It’s unfortunate that our Attorney General has played games to keep the document quiet. But hey, he has more important things to do, like round up a dozen or so Hueterrites to testify they forged petitions for Annette Bosworth. Then gives them ‘criminal immunity’. Maybe they are the ones that staged Benda’s suicide?

Marty has his priorities you know, hunting down the real criminals while letting others get away with murder, so to speak.

So this is getting interesting;

Minnehaha County Commissioner Jeff Barth filed a petition in U.S. District Court last month to preserve documents associated with the state’s EB-5 program. On Monday, his case was in court.

There is no lawsuit right now, but Barth worried the paperwork tied to the state’s EB-5 program could be destroyed, possibly by former EB-5 administrator Joop Bollen.

Attorneys for those responding to the petition, including former Governor Mike Rounds, say that the petition has no legal standing in federal court. They say that the request for protection is being made to uncover facts, which would be a misuse of the court order Barth is seeking.

They also argue there is an obligation to collect and protect documents in a lawsuit, saying a court order is not necessary.

Judge Karen Schreier agreed to that point. However, she also says that simply as a taxpayer, Barth has no standing in federal court to ask for documents to be protected. However, the petition was not dismissed completely because of a motion made Monday to add an additional petitioner to the case.

Because of that request, there will be another 21 days for the opposing party to respond. Once that response is in, a new hearing date will be set.

Who is this mysterious other petitioner? The Feds?

I wonder how many adult diapers were changed at Rounds’ campaign headquarters today, when the FBI decided to tell the press that the investigation is still on going?

A person from ‘another’ campaign I talked to today wondered if the reason Joop is out of the country is because he has been offered immunity from the FEDS?

Doesn’t it seem odd that a program that is still being investigated by the FBI would allow their main (and alive) witness to leave the country?

Maybe he supplied the murder weapon in Benda’s death to the FBI . . . Ah, I mean, the stick Benda used to push the trigger to kill himself.

Sorry. It’s hard to keep track of these conspiracy theories these days.

Keep digging Marion. Keep digging.

I have been thinking about this every since the fake governor appeared on the Colbert Report.

No TV commercials. No print ads. No radio. No direct mail. Zilch. Why wouldn’t the former Lt. Governor endorse his former boss? We all know Dennis is going to wallop Wismer. What is he afraid of?

EB-5 seems to be a virus that Dennis is trying to shake. C’mon Dennis. Endorse your former BFF.