South Dakota

suegeo

(2,840 posts) Thu Oct 14, 2021, 10:34 AM Oct 2021

S.D. senate majority leader's son probably committed fraud

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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S.D. senate majority leader's son probably committed fraud (Original Post) suegeo Oct 2021 OP

Daddy (S.D. Senate Majority Leader) got DUI, pleaded it down suegeo Oct 2021 #1

Normal people don't get to plead down DUI charges to 'careless driving' lol ... Hugh_Lebowski Oct 2021 #2

suegeo

(2,840 posts)

1. Daddy (S.D. Senate Majority Leader) got DUI, pleaded it down

Reply to suegeo (Original post)

Thu Oct 14, 2021, 10:48 AM

Oct 2021

https://dakotafreepress.com/2021/10/05/sd-senate-majority-leader-on-probation-after-pleading-down-from-dui-charge/]

When the Legislature convenes for its two Special Sessions in November, expect Senate Majority Leader Gary Lynn Cammack (R-29/Union Center) to be driving extra carefully. According to South Dakota court records, he’s on probation until after Christmas for careless driving, a misdemeanor charge he pled down to on June 29 after being arrested for driving under the influence on January 18, 2020:

Hugh_Lebowski

(33,643 posts)

2. Normal people don't get to plead down DUI charges to 'careless driving' lol ...

Reply to suegeo (Reply #1)

Thu Oct 14, 2021, 12:41 PM

Oct 2021

I mean, maybe if you're under the legal limit but still driving badly, but if you blow .08, you're getting DUI if you're a regular person. Wonder what the details were on that ...

"The court fined Cammack $431.50 for the careless driving charge, $39 for speeding, and took another $222 out of his hide for court costs. "

Compared to a DUI, that's laughable, man ... didn't even get the 30-day DL suspension.

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