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• "No distractions. No anything. You just get to sit and focus. I get my beats bumping in the QB room, just sitting there and just jamming and watch tape and take notes. It's great. It's great," Freeman said.
• NOTES: WR Greg Childs took part in his first practice in more than 15 months, since he tore the patellar tendon in both knees the first week of training camp as a rookie. He's on the physically unable to perform list, and the Vikings have three weeks to decide whether or not to put him on the active roster the rest of the season. "I'm going to eventually get on the playing field. I don't know when. It could be by the end of the season, or it could be the beginning of the next. But it's going to be one of the two," Childs said. ... C John Sullivan has not yet passed his post-concussion test and did not practice on Wednesday. ... RB Adrian Peterson (groin) was held out, as was WR Greg Jennings (Achilles). Frazier said Jennings was still sore in the morning. The coach said he's "cautiously optimistic" Peterson will play.
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Legislator wants audit of EB-5 program in SD
DIRK LAMMERS, Associated Press
• SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) -- A Democratic state legislator is calling for an independent fiscal audit of South Dakota's participation in a federal investment-for-green-cards immigration program.
• The South Dakota Governor's Office of Economic Development for years contracted with the privately held SDRC Inc. to administer the federal EB-5 program, in which foreign investors can secure permanent residency for as little as $500,000. The program helped fund the failed Northern Beef Packers in Aberdeen and other large projects in the state.
• The economic development office canceled its contract with SDRC in September "for cause."
• Rep. Kathy Tyler, of Big Stone City, said she tried to put the issue on this week's legislative Executive Board meeting agenda, but her request was voted down. Tyler said she's like to see a forensic audit done by an independent accounting firm that provides details on all offshore wire transfers, identifies the secret investors who provided a bridge loan to Northern Beef and accounts for all payments made by SDRC to attorneys.
• "There are foreign investments and there are foreign loans, and there's money going back and forth to the Cayman Islands," Tyler said Wednesday. "There are a lot of things that aren't being answered."
• Executive Board chairman Sen. Ryan Maher, R-Isabel, said the board already (Continued on page 25)
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