Jackley Divorce HIDDEN From Public Record. Did Big Tech and the Courts Help Hide?

James Bialota | Investigation | Oct 28th, 2026

Before Martin J. Jackley’s campaign for US House started in 2025 for the Congressional primary election, information of Jackley’ vile past kept disappearing from the web, as if it was being scrubbed.

Who was scrubbing it? We don’t know who, but we do know why; to make a bad candidate look more palatable.

Significant negative stories on Jackley that have been scrubbed from searches (that don't include a specific dozen key words):

1. Laura Zystra-Kaiser Sexual Harassment case, which the state lost.

2. Richard Mette child rapist plea deal (from life in prison down to approx. 6.5 years)

3. The State framing Shirley Schwab (a child advocate) and Brandon Taliaferro (an attorney in the Brown County State's Attorney's office) with felony charges when they actively alleged that the South Dakota Department of Social Services (DSS) had

ignored a decade of reported abuse regarding Mette.

4. Jackley’s refusal to expunge the false charges on Brandon Taliaferro after the pair

were acquitted.

5. EB-5 Scandal.

6. Gear-UP Scandal.

7. Jackley’s personal representation of T. Denny Sanford on child porn charges.

8. Jackley’s office taking over prosecution of Jackley’s primary political opponent in the US House race in 2025-2026. The Attorney General’s Assistant AG claimed there was not a conflict of interest in prosecuting his campaign opponent (Really?).

9. Cover up of Jackley’s own felony criminal allegations. North Dakota was asked to

investigate, as SD DCI had a conflict of interest investigating their own boss. North Dakota brought the charges to a prosecutor in Hughes County (Pierre, SD). She declined to prosecute. North Dakota Bureau of Criminal Investigation turned over the case file and all information in a Sunshine Law request. Jackley at one point during question from ND BCI deflected and blamed his wife for some role of the accusations in the files.

Wow. A real con, in our opinion.

On the question of Jackley’s marriage, websites claim there is no official record of a divorce. Wikipedia, Microsoft AI, Yahoo AI, and Google AI all claim Jackley is still married. Ballotpedia makes no record of divorce or marriage. Both Microsoft and Yahoo deflect to look into the 2018 Governor campaign related 2025 divorce instead.

What Google did should concern everyone. Google and its AI not only completely fabricated the story to claim Jackley is married, but it also alleges the case is someone else’s.

Yes, really, AI lies (or is at least told what to say). Is this why we need Data Centers? To specifically hide the truth from the public and hide the dirty laundry of dirty politicians? This is the data they want "centered”; putting out false narratives and fake news to the general public.

What else did Google AI do that was so disgusting? Well, Google's AI argues with users, claiming the Divorce is false information spread by unknown bad actors on social media, and no such news story exists. (We know who the alleged actors were.)

While this has never been officially published before, we are now breaking the story. Our investigators attempted to test the AI's bounds, and entered the actual Jackley divorce

case #. Google AI actually claims the case is someone else’s and names a name: Kaiser. We asked to specify which Kaiser, and Google AI specifically lied and claimed that Jackley’s’ divorce case was that of Laura Zystra-Kaiser (the woman who successfully sued the state of SD and Marty Jackley as AG).

AI response to Jackly Divorce Case Questions

This is a serious red flag. Did the government or an elected official have a hand in this mis-information campaign to deflect another political blackeye on a high-ranking government official onto a state political adversary?

Was this a Jackley preemptive counteraccusation, scapegoat diversion, or a deflection to

impugn someone else? This also happened in the campaign against Bialota for US House. Newscenter1 and Dakota War College re-wrote an article, after Newscenter1 did a TV broadcast falsely defaming Bialota. Both were sent a SDCL 20-11-7 retraction notice demand before libel lawsuit. Neither complied.

Bialota also published web data that his website and social media had been hidden from general public view. If the Government or its Donors in BIG-TECH do this, our elections and news are over as we know it.

"Whoever controls the media controls the mind" is a quote attributed to Jim Morrison, lead singer of The Doors, and echoes sentiments from works like 1984 and Fahrenheit 451. The debate over whether society has reached Orwellian propaganda levels is officially over. This new evidence shows it is a conclusive fact.

Google Ai even said Russ Janklow could not be Jackley’s divorce Attorney. South Dakota E-courts says otherwise.

E-courts Case Summary of Jackley Divorce Case

The efforts by Google are too coincidental to not suggest otherwise. Was this a paid effort with taxpayer dollars? Or did big tech support bad candidates who will support data-centers and bring crap candidates across the midterm finish line? Google states on some answers to questions that the AI can be wrong. Why isn’t that disclaimer on every search?

And now, finally, the divorce decree gets exposed, after the primary election.

Coincidence?

After months of attempting to access the decree, since well before the primaries, we get to Marty Jackley’s divorce case, #32DIV18-66. The case was somehow sealed and files hidden. Strangely, no court order was on file to seal the case or files. Persons in the investigation reached out to the court and clerks. They demanded the order to seal be shown or release the records. Even the final notice of decree had been hidden from the file, and the case was marked as still open since 2017. This led to speculating that the divorce was never finalized, preventing the public from learning the truth to and causing the media to fear publishing a false story.

The bottom line: AI lied, and Wikipedia is wrong.

The case, now open to the public, shows conclusively that Angela Jackley filed for divorce on 4 December, 2018 (just months after Jackley lost to Kristi Noem) citing irreconcilable differences (same as Noem). The case was finalized in a divorce decree that was filed on 7 November, 2019.

It was hidden for almost 7 years.

Notice of Final Court Divorce Decree

Why hide it? Well, a few ads on social media early in Jackley’s House race were rebuts from his failed Governor campaign and featured his wife. New video ads of Jackley and only his kids raised questions, it appears, and we haven't seen one of those ads in a while.

Jackley, a reported Catholic, ran on his (apparent) conservative values. A broken marriage did not fit that description. Nor would the actual reasons. So, as with Jackley’s other skeletons, they got buried deep and were misdirected onto his adversaries.

Who directed AI and big tech to do this (and who paid them) is the million-dollar question. While rumors in Pierre have swirled over the reasons for divorce, we did not receive any response from the South Dakota Attorney Generals Office or Jackley's Congressional Campaign, after reaching out several times for interviews with both offices for weeks.

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