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Democrats Demand Subpoenas

Democrats Demand Subpoenas

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South Dakota democratic legislative leaders held a news conference in Sioux Falls to ask for a broader investigation into the EB-5 economic development program.

 

House Minority Leader Bernie Hunhoff of Yankton says a legislative committee should call state officials and others connected to that program to appear before them…

 

Hunhoff says the legislature passed a bi-partisan resolution giving the Government Operations and Audit Committee the authority to continue the investigation…

 

Senate Minority Leader Jason Frerichs of Wilmot says the information about the investigation has changed…

 

Republican members of the committee have said they want to wait for any possible findings of an ongoing federal investigation.

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