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 ...
Really? 55,000 acres in an arid desert with little potential for agriculture? It could be some group[s] thinking big solar projects. Yes, those idiot millionaires and billionaires are still around with their grandiose "Dreams of Green" even after all the failures of wind and solar. Anyone remember the great success of Solyndra Energy?
“Thanks for digging that up.”
That was my first real adventure with FR, helping to expose the al Fuqra killers in California and across our nation.
The U.S. Government can’t figure out who owns 55,000 acres? Surrounding an Air Force Base? BS!
Look at the data collected on line and on our butts at home here on FR just this morning and early pm.
You buy an ar15 conversion kit and the feds will be all up your backsides in a Boston minute though.
Flannery LLC is heavily involved re Solano County re wind mills and other Gorebull warming toys besides their Near to Travis buys.
Gee, it wouldn’t be a shell company with funding by the CCP, would it?
It is becoming more obvious, each day, that we are the Targets for our fed investigators, not the real criminals in America.
‘Nobody can figure out who they are’
There are property records of who the owner is. Ask the owners what they plan on doing. If they are evasive then seize the land and give the money back. The chinese communists will go elesewhere.
“Over the years that Flannery, registered in Delaware...”
Wonder if Richard Melnyk is any relation to the wacky paganistic priest Walter William Melnyk?
10% for the Big Guy.
CHINA
“This is a simple case about a group of wealthy landowners who saw an opportunity to conspire, collude, price fix, and illegally overcharge Flannery, a buyer who had approached these landowners on an individual basis to buy their properties in the Jepson Prairie and Montezuma Hills area of Solano County, California,” the lawsuit states.
Beyond my pay grade.
China is kicking our ass.
Why do you so propagandize to say China is not a threat?
China has been buying America, for 30 years.
Did they carry it away?
What happpened when Japan bought America? Is Japan selling out their American holdings to China?
Japan has always been much smaller than America, (was) nowhere near as industrialized as America, non-nuclear, and had a MUCH smaller population than America.
China is physically the same size as America (depends on who you check with) China is now MORE industrialized than America, China is now rapidly increasing their nuclear arms (and incidentally does NOT belong to an Arms Control limitation ) though to be fair at the moment neither do we or Russia.
Their population is huge (4 or 5 times ours) and their Navy now is bigger than ours. Their latest carrier is now similar to ours. And their Navy is growing much faster than ours.
ZERO similarity.
Though, last time, even Japan gave us one heck of a scare.
Right now we are rapidly losing the edge we had.
EVERYONE on our side, has been building up China for the last 30 years.
Dems, GOP … everyone.
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