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USAF investigates mystery company that's bought 55,000 acres around major California air force base costing $800 MILLION - amid security fears it may be connected to a hostile power
Daily Mail ^ | 7/08/23 | Neirin Gray Desai

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 ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; China; Front Page News
KEYWORDS: 2018; baseplots; blackrock; california; ccp; china; delaware; flannery; flanneryassociates; gavinnewsom; globalwarming; landgrabs; melnyk; milbaseplots; militarybases; mystery; nancypelosi; realestate; richardmelnyk; riovista; sanfrancisco; security; solanocounty; travisafb; usaf; windfarms
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To: Libloather
Even LLC's have to submit tax returns to the IRS. With supposedly 87,000 more IRS agents, they just shine this on? This sounds like a tax evasion from US big players connected to overseas big players.

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?

61 posted on 07/08/2023 2:47:59 PM PDT by A Navy Vet (USA Birth Certificate - 1787. Death Certificate - 2021? )
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To: Leep

“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.


62 posted on 07/08/2023 3:45:15 PM PDT by Grampa Dave (We have no shortage of experts, stating B$ as fact, & they have no idea nor reality re solutions!!)
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To: saleman

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.


63 posted on 07/08/2023 3:52:07 PM PDT by Grampa Dave (We have no shortage of experts, stating B$ as fact, & they have no idea nor reality re solutions!!)
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To: Grampa Dave
The U.S. Government can’t figure out who owns 55,000 acres? Surrounding an Air Force Base?

You buy an ar15 conversion kit and the feds will be all up your backsides in a Boston minute though.

64 posted on 07/08/2023 3:55:38 PM PDT by redcatcherb412
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To: mac_truck

Flannery LLC is heavily involved re Solano County re wind mills and other Gorebull warming toys besides their Near to Travis buys.

https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2023/07/08/08/72987285-12277263-State_officials_are_investigating_a_mysterious_company_that_has_-a-34_1688802905860.jpg


65 posted on 07/08/2023 4:00:09 PM PDT by Grampa Dave (We have no shortage of experts, stating B$ as fact, & they have no idea nor reality re solutions!!)
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To: Libloather

Gee, it wouldn’t be a shell company with funding by the CCP, would it?


66 posted on 07/08/2023 4:02:33 PM PDT by Antoninus (Republicans are all honorable men.)
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To: redcatcherb412

It is becoming more obvious, each day, that we are the Targets for our fed investigators, not the real criminals in America.


67 posted on 07/08/2023 6:29:55 PM PDT by Grampa Dave (We have no shortage of experts, stating B$ as fact, & they have no idea nor reality re solutions!!)
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To: Libloather

‘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.


68 posted on 07/08/2023 11:00:42 PM PDT by minnesota_bound (Need more money to buy everything now)
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To: clearcarbon

“Over the years that Flannery, registered in Delaware...”


69 posted on 07/08/2023 11:39:23 PM PDT by 21twelve (Ever Vigilant. Never Fearful.)
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To: Libloather

Wonder if Richard Melnyk is any relation to the wacky paganistic priest Walter William Melnyk?


70 posted on 07/09/2023 1:20:18 AM PDT by piasa (Attitude adjustments offered here free of charge)
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To: Libloather

10% for the Big Guy.


71 posted on 07/09/2023 6:17:43 AM PDT by grey_whiskers ( The opinions are solely those of the author and are subject to change without notice.)
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To: Libloather

CHINA


72 posted on 07/09/2023 7:49:43 AM PDT by GailA (Constitution vs evil Treasonous political Apparatchiks, Constitutional Conservative.)
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To: Grampa Dave

“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.


Who is zooming who?


73 posted on 07/09/2023 11:43:44 AM PDT by PeterPrinciple (Thinking Caps are no longer being issued but there must be a warehouse full of them somewhere.)
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To: PeterPrinciple

Beyond my pay grade.


74 posted on 07/09/2023 5:26:10 PM PDT by Grampa Dave (We have no shortage of experts, stating B$ as fact, & they have no idea nor reality re solutions!!)
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To: bert

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.


75 posted on 07/11/2023 8:17:51 PM PDT by cba123 (Tôi là người Mỹ. Hiện tôi đang ở Việt Nam)
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To: cba123

Did they carry it away?

What happpened when Japan bought America? Is Japan selling out their American holdings to China?


76 posted on 07/12/2023 5:11:44 AM PDT by bert ( (KWE. NP. N.C. +12) Joe Biden is a kleptocrat)
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To: bert

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.


77 posted on 07/12/2023 7:13:31 AM PDT by cba123 (Tôi là người Mỹ. Hiện tôi đang ở Việt Nam)
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