Why an immigration investment scandal threatens to derail GOP’s Senate majority hopes

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Why an immigration investment scandal threatens to derail GOP’s Senate majority hopes
By Sean Sullivan at the Washington Post

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/post-politics/wp/2014/10/15/why-an-immigrant-investment-scandal-threatens-to-derail-gops-senate-majority-hopes/?tid=rssfeed

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Last fall, Democrats distributed documents showing that Joop Bollen, a state official who oversaw EB-5 in the Rounds administration, contracted with a company to help administer the program. What he didn't initially say was that he owned that company.

The sudden death later in the fall of Richard Benda, a Rounds-appointed state tourism and development secretary who promoted EB-5, thrust the circumstances surrounding the program further into the spotlight. Benda's death -- ruled by authorities to be a suicide by gunshot wound -- came as he was facing an arrest for allegedly funneling state money to himself, information that surfaced after he died. Some even questioned whether Benda was killed by someone else.

Meanwhile, Rounds recently sought to amend testimony before a state legislative panel about EB-5 after a local paper revealed a document that contained information at odds with his initial account.

In an interview with The Washington Post last week, Rounds decried the Democratic attacks against him and said he was not shying away from talking about the program, which he said had helped the state.



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