A dark money group paid $80,000 to Noem’s personal company when she was governor of South Dakota. She did not include this income on her federal disclosure forms, a likely violation of ethics requirements, experts say.

In 2023, while Kristi Noem was governor of South Dakota, she supplemented her income by secretly accepting a cut of the money she raised for a nonprofit that promotes her political career, tax records show.

In what experts described as a highly unusual arrangement, the nonprofit routed funds to a personal company of Noem’s that had recently been established in Delaware. The payment totaled $80,000 that year, a significant boost to her roughly $130,000 government salary. Since the nonprofit is a so-called dark money group — one that’s not required to disclose the names of its donors — the original source of the money remains unknown.

    • Saleh@feddit.orgEnglish
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      22 days ago

      Can you give me some examples of these civilized countries you speak of? Because from all the countries i have a rough idea of their politics off, i remember similarly egregious corruption cases, and in the case of my country, Germany, the blatant corruption often is legal.

      • NoForwardslashS@sopuli.xyzEnglish
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        22 days ago

        Very recent example is Le Pen who got jail time and ban from running for office because of very similar embezzlement.

        I enjoy that you basically called your own country uncivilized though!

      • Peppycito@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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        22 days ago

        There was a German-Canadian Airbus scandal, but that ended with the scandalized Prime Minister getting a settlement from the government for defamation. So I guess that doesn’t really count.

      • Tar_Alcaran@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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        22 days ago

        i remember similarly egregious corruption cases

        The fact that those were cases at all, and this is going to be just a footnote in the news should be a big hint that other places take it a bit more seriously.

        Not seriously enough, but a bit more

        • Saleh@feddit.orgEnglish
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          22 days ago

          “Cases” as in aware to the public, not crimincal cases. A “case” as in an “occurence”, like a “case study” can study all sorts of things, not just a proceeding in front of a court.

  • Rhaedas@fedia.io
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    23 days ago

    In what experts described as a highly unusual arrangement

    Oh, that’s what we’re calling blatantly illegal actions now.