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Someone bought 52,000 acres in the Bay Area. No one knows who they are.
San Francisco Chronicle / SFGate.com ^ | Aug 15, 2023 | Katie Dowd , SFGATE

Posted on 08/16/2023 10:06:12 PM PDT by thecodont

One of the biggest mysteries in Solano County may be one step closer to being solved.

Since 2018, a shadowy company called Flannery Associates has been buying up land around Travis Air Force Base — so much land, in fact, that it is now the biggest property owner in the county. Its land now surrounds the military base on three sides, said Congressman John Garamendi, who represents California’s 8th District.

In July, the story went public when the Wall Street Journal published a report about how Flannery Associates has spent nearly $1 billion in land acquisitions in the county. Because the group incorporated in Delaware, state regulations mean there is no public paper trail of who is behind the limited liability company. Even government officials are stumped, prompting Garamendi to publicly voice his concerns that it could be a national security issue.

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Now, a government probe into Flannery’s investors may be in the works.

CNN first reported that the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States may be looking into the secretive purchases. CFIUS, which falls under the Treasury Department’s purview, has the power to review certain real estate or investment transactions by foreign buyers to determine if there is a security risk to the United States.

(Excerpt) Read more at sfgate.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: California
KEYWORDS: blackrock; flannery; fortresssanfrancisco; realestate; sfbayarea; travisafb
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1 posted on 08/16/2023 10:06:12 PM PDT by thecodont
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To: nutmeg

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2 posted on 08/16/2023 10:06:59 PM PDT by nutmeg
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To: thecodont

Is their return address written in Cantonese or Mandarin?
That might be a clue.


3 posted on 08/16/2023 10:14:38 PM PDT by lee martell
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To: nutmeg; vivenne
vivenne wrote:

I also think the reason they are letting San Francisco fall into ruin is so they can push the people out grab the land cheap and turn the city into a wealthy haven like Monaco with full, city-wide lockdown in 20 minutes from any outside threats. Perfect city for it geographically as there is water on 3 sides. All according to plan.

https://freerepublic.com/focus/news/4175321/posts?page=31#31

4 posted on 08/16/2023 10:14:58 PM PDT by kiryandil (China Joe and Paycheck Hunter - the Chink in America's defenses)
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To: thecodont

“...No one knows who they are...”
“...Flannery Associates has been buying up land...”
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Sounds to me like they know who they are.


5 posted on 08/16/2023 10:15:17 PM PDT by Repeal The 17th (Get out of the matrix and get a real life.)
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To: lee martell

see post #4


6 posted on 08/16/2023 10:15:21 PM PDT by kiryandil (China Joe and Paycheck Hunter - the Chink in America's defenses)
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To: thecodont

The Chinks own it. The CCP is behind this.


7 posted on 08/16/2023 10:15:23 PM PDT by jmacusa (Liberals. Too stupid to be idiots.)
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If this Regime is stupid enough to allow the CCP to buy all the land around a major West coast AF base, the Ch!nks are going to win anyway, and the USA may as well just cut down the military and save the money.


8 posted on 08/16/2023 10:19:13 PM PDT by Reverend Wright ( Everything touched by progressives, dies !)
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To: kiryandil; nutmeg; vivenne
[San Francisco] Perfect city for it geographically as there is water on 3 sides. All according to plan.

We should never have decommissioned our strategic military bases. We are on the edge of the continent and have valuable deep water ports. This is insane. It leaves us ripe for invasion.

9 posted on 08/16/2023 10:19:23 PM PDT by thecodont
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To: jmacusa; All

Yeah, but is Hunter, James, Frank or Valerie on the Board of Directors?


10 posted on 08/16/2023 10:25:35 PM PDT by LegendHasIt
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To: LegendHasIt

No doubt they are or a proxy being the bagman. The entire Biden clan are nothing but a bunch of whores, political and sexual.

Joe Biden would sell his mothers grave for the right price.


11 posted on 08/16/2023 10:30:32 PM PDT by jmacusa (Liberals. Too stupid to be idiots.)
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To: Reverend Wright

Re. my tagline. Biden doesn’t give a damn who he sells what.

As long as he’s lining his pockets he doesn’t give a rip.

Good God why do we put up with this?


12 posted on 08/16/2023 10:32:42 PM PDT by jmacusa (Liberals. Too stupid to be idiots.)
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To: jmacusa

there has to be alot more people than just Biden to sign off on something like this.


13 posted on 08/16/2023 10:36:37 PM PDT by Reverend Wright ( Everything touched by progressives, dies !)
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To: thecodont

bttt


14 posted on 08/16/2023 10:36:49 PM PDT by Pajamajan (Pray for our was nation. Never be slave in a new Socialist America)
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To: thecodont
Someone bought 52,000 acres in the Bay Area. No one knows who they are.

It wasn't me.

No way I would buy real estate in a woke, one-party, high-taxing Communist state.

15 posted on 08/16/2023 10:44:24 PM PDT by Jess Kitting
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To: thecodont
We should never have decommissioned our strategic military bases.

Clinton started that one and was wrong then.

Imagine a democrat trying to destroy our country.

Who would have thought?

16 posted on 08/16/2023 10:47:04 PM PDT by metmom (He who testifies to these things says, “Surely I am coming soon.” Amen. Come, Lord Jesus.)
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To: Repeal The 17th

Flannery Associates sounds Irish. Are the Flannery Associates name Lee Ho Flannery, Seamus O’Chin, and and Siobhan Hung?


17 posted on 08/16/2023 10:49:29 PM PDT by rxh4n1
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To: thecodont

Like the Presidio.


18 posted on 08/16/2023 10:50:54 PM PDT by vivenne
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To: kiryandil

As long as they hold a GP race every year I’m down with the prospect.


19 posted on 08/16/2023 10:53:50 PM PDT by Paladin2
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To: thecodont
Because the group incorporated in Delaware, state regulations mean there is no public paper trail of who is behind the limited liability company.

Gee, hasn't Delaware been in the news for other reasons lately? Seems like Delaware is a good place to set up crooked LLCs. Wonder how those laws came to be enacted?

20 posted on 08/16/2023 10:55:02 PM PDT by MileHi ((Liberalism is an ideology of parasites, hypocrites, grievance mongers, victims, and control freaks.)
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