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suegeo

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Thu Oct 14, 2021, 11:34 AM Oct 2021

S.D. senate majority leader's son probably committed fraud [View all]

https://kelo.com/2021/10/11/242742/


UNION CENTER, S.D. (KELO.com) — A South Dakota News Watch investigation has raised questions about whether a taxidermy business owned by the son of a state senator is operated from Texas even though application materials submitted by the son, who received more than $1 million in coronavirus grants and loans, list an address in Union Center, S.D.

Chris Cammack, son of South Dakota Senate Majority Leader Gary Cammack, received more than $700,000 in state coronavirus relief grants and more than $300,000 in forgivable federal loans for the Union Center business. State program rules say the business must be physically located in South Dakota to be eligible, and federal rules say the PPP money must protect jobs at the business that applied



Here's a link (NOT likely to be behind paywall) to the original story that investigated the alleged fraud.
https://www.sdnewswatch.org/stories/south-dakota-news-watch-investigation-questions-swirl-around-covid-grants-received-by-state-senators-son/
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