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 ...
Flummoxed? Who writes this stuff?
As soon as I saw the picture, I knew it was Travis, since I was stationed there for 4 years.
There are many countries in the world that severely restrict the ownership of real property by foreigners.
This seems to make a lot of sense as does the policy of carefully vetting those who wish to come into the country.
Oh wait...about that southern border thing...
No....it’s a shell, within a shell...within a shell. I spent five minutes looking at it, and you can obviously tell that it’s a non-US group with lots of money. Where it leads to? Unknown.
I suspect if you used Delaware judges...they’d eventually drop you to one level down....probably at least three different companies. Then those would lead onto another couple each.
If you scan value of the purchased property, it’s in the one-billion range. I’d take a guess...Chinese, Russian Oligarch, Saudis, or some Soros group.
Just a suggestion, I think one intention is to drill around the USAF property and then sue in some environmental situation for contamination and force the base to close down.
USAF? Has it taken over the responsibilities of the FBI and the CIA? If so that could be good news for America!
Any agency of the US government which has the ability to sort out the ownership, doesn’t want the public to know.
“Flannery, registered in Delaware” Hmmm, maybe it’s the Big Guy.
Are the illegal aliens that come from China gravitating toward this land?
1st guess: Billy Gates ashe is largest owner of farm property or
2nd guess: China
China, obviously.
Doubtful it’s a mystery and more like they’re not looking all that hard. You can’t purchase 55,000 acres incognito.
Every parcel purchase has signatures on paperwork and signatures lead back to people. Even if it’s under an acting POA someone hired them.
It’s a Chink in our armor.
[It’s a mystery.]
Probably Donna Chang.
Or a group made up of real Chinese, funded by the Chinese government.
>>>'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.'<<<
It's a mystery.
>>>amid security fears it may be connected to a hostile power<<
Be funny if this were a Trump operation. $800 mil -- drop in the bucket for a certain real estate mogul.
Make California Great Again!
Micah 4:
... and they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruninghooks: nation shall not lift up a sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more.
But they shall sit every man under his vine and under his fig tree; and none shall make them afraid: for the mouth of the LORD of hosts hath spoken it.
Recorded as O'Flannery and Flannery, this ancient Irish surname was originally a nickname. It derives from the words "flann" meaning red and "abrha" - an eyebrow! From this it is easy to deduce that the original chieftain was a man with prominent red eyebrows, and probably a Viking.
If Willie can "kill" this song, imagine what The Donald could do with it:
Willie Nelson - It's Hard to Be Humble (Official Video)
(warm loping country music) ~ CC
Depends who is saying “hostile power” ..could be some of “white republican terrorist” connected to a church?
First time served in United States!!
Chop suey, anyone?
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