South Dakota has been reported as one of the most corrupt States in America.

One of the significant corruption and cronyism charges has been levied against Governor Dennis Daugaard and several other prominent politicians.  The Lakota People’s Law Project has compiled a 35 page report last year which identified political officials who have conflicts of interest.

The list includes South Dakota Governor Dennis Daugaard, Lieutenant Governor Matt Michels, Department of Health Director Kim Malsam-Rysdon, former Department of Social Services Director Deb Bowman, State Attorneys Dan Todd and Kim Dorsett, and State Senator Alan Solano.

The report deals with racial bias, but also exposes charges of corruption and conflict of interest involving tens of millions of dollars.

Among other things, the report identifies the mechanisms by which these politicians benefited either in their official public capacities or in private capacities, including reimbursing contractual payments with federal dollars and using their offices to leverage contracts for private institutions in which they were employed.

Corruption, conflict of interest and cronyism isn’t anything new in South Dakota politics.

What WOULD by new is if anyone was ever held accountable.

 

***Gordon Howie is an author and CEO of Life and Liberty Media***

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