Posted on 07/08/2023 2:10:00 AM PDT by Libloather
Government officials are investigating a mysterious company that has bought around 55,000 acres of dry farmland around a USAF base in California.
Travis Air Force base, northeast of San Francisco, houses large transport aircraft used for refueling smaller planes and sending aid and munitions around the world.
Starting in 2018, a company called Flannery Associates LLC has spent around $800million buying swathes of land around the base, leaving local, state and federal officials flummoxed as to who they are and what they want with it.
An attorney representing Flannery told The Wall Street Journal the company is controlled by US citizens and that 97 percent of its capital comes from American investors - with the remaining investments coming from British and Irish citizens.
In a letter to Solano County, the majority of which is owned by Flannery, the company is described itself as being 'owned by a group of families looking to diversify their portfolio from equities into real assets, including agricultural land in the western United States,' according to county newspaper the Daily Republic.
But after eight months of investigation, the Air Force's 'Foreign Investment Risk Review Office' has failed to identify any one individual behind the Flannery, according to the Journal.
Meanwhile, the US Agriculture Department has made its own inquiries, also to no avail.
'Nobody can figure out who they are,' Ronald Kott, mayor of nearby Rio Vista, which is now largely surrounded by Flannery land, told The Journal. 'Whatever they're doing - this looks like a very long-term play.'
Over the years that Flannery, registered in Delaware, has been buying up land, it has given a variety of accounts and indications as to what it wants to do with it.
An attorney for Flannery, Richard Melnyk, said in an email to the county in 2019...
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
If Americans start squatting on the land, I bet they’ll make themselves known quickly.
What do you have against the word “flummoxed”?
Amazing how many mysteries surround the regime of the Obamas, Bidens, Clintons, etc.
Yet they can laser-in on flycrap regarding Trump.
The big Wash. D.C. law firm representing Fallnery is known, and the USAF is unable to drag any specific information out of them; doesn’t seem plausible.
Communist Red China
You do know that each of the services has its own security, intel, and investigative organizations?
I’m SURE the FBI can figure out who bought this land!
Too busy investigating Trump and covering up for Biden’s.
This country is nuts to allow this to happen. Can we please have some sanity?
“Nobody can figure out who they are”
US spies.
Air Force Intelligence
Army Intelligence
Central Intelligence Agency
Coast Guard Intelligence
Defense Intelligence Agency
Department of Energy
Department of Homeland Security
Department of State
Department of the Treasury
Drug Enforcement Administration
Federal Bureau of Investigation
Marine Corps Intelligence
National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency
National Reconnaissance Office
National Security Agency
Navy Intelligence
Space Force Intelligence
The problem with “flummoxed” could be that it sounds too much like “ten-percent-for-the-big-guy” in Mandarin.
This country is asleep. When it wakes up, it may be too late.
Chi-na.
China. They will take over America without ever firing a shot.
China is in serious internal turmoil and lacks the capacity to do as you say
Americans can not own even one square inch of land in China.
That said, this is an obvious power play by a hostile foreign power, and not necessarily a "state" power.
Not the Air Force I know. It’s run by a bunch of incompetent nitwits now. Trust me, I know, I just retired from there.
Nobody can figure out who they are.
Over the years that Flannery, registered in ***Delaware***, has been buying up land, it has given a variety of accounts and indications as to what it wants to do with it.
Not many dot on that issue.
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