Shovel-Ready Cash for Green Cards

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Thursday August 27, 2015 · 11:28 AM PDT

2015/08/27 · 11:28

A year ago this week, a dozen leaders of Seattle's business and political establishment turned up with shovels at a downtown construction site to break ground on an ambitious, 42-story building, the Potala Tower, named for a palace in the mountains of Tibet. Spearheading the $190 million project was a 41-year-old monk-turned-developer named Lobsang Dargey. His investment company, Path America, had collected $125 million from 250 Chinese investors in a little-known program that grants so-called EB-5 visas to foreigners in return for $500,000 "investments."

The EB-5 scheme rewards foreigners willing to invest in job creation in "depressed" areas by conferring Permanent Resident Alien (green card) status to the investor's entire family. Critics call the program a back door to citizenship for the wealthy.

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Thursday August 08, 2013 · 4:50 PM PDT

2013/08/08 · 16:50

King County Sgt Patrick Saulet. Dominic Holden photo.

Sgt. Patrick "KC" Saulet, who has one of the worst misconduct histories on the King County Sheriff's Office, ordered local newsman Dominic Holden to move at least a block away from a public transit facility where several police officers had been questioning a lone black man. Holden, who had taken pictures of the incident with his cellphone camera, is the news editor at Seattle's urban weekly, The Stranger.

In 2006, the Seattle Post-Intelligencer reported that Saulet had 12 sustained complaints against him and "one of the worst misconduct histories in the King County Sheriff's Office." Two years later, The Stranger reported that Saulet had been reprimanded five times for excessive use of force and four times for improper personal conduct.

Holden complied with Sgt. Saulet's orders, but asked who was in command. Seattle Police Officer John Marion spoke up: "I'm going to come into The Stranger and bother you while you're at work."

That was over a week ago. Sunday, finally, Sgt. Saulet was suspended by Sheriff John Urquhart. His previous boss, then-sheriff and now GOP Congressman Dave Reichert had ignored earlier recommendations that Saulet be fired for misconduct.

Meantime, acting Seattle police chief Jim Pugel has launched an investigation into Marion's conduct and apologized to Holden. The Department of Justice 18 months ago announced findings that the Seattle Police Department had long engaged in a pattern of excessive force that violates the Constitution and federal law.

"Greeted As Liberators"

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Thursday November 27, 2008 · 8:39 AM PST

2008/11/27 · 08:39

Thankful we are this day, that Baby G has been deposed at last. It has been a long eight years.

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