Posted on 07/07/2023 12:34:01 PM PDT by Twotone
Air Force officials are investigating a series of land acquisitions amounting to nearly $1 billion near a major air base in California, The Wall Street Journal reported.
The Journal found that over the past five years, investment group Flannery Associates has become the largest landowner in Solano County after purchasing nearly $1 billion worth of land.
An attorney for the company told the newspaper that it's controlled by American citizens and that 97% of the firm's capital comes from U.S. investors, with the remainder coming from British and Irish investors. Local and federal officials said they have yet to uncover the identities of Flannery's investors.
The company previously told Solano County that it "is owned by a group of families looking to diversify their portfolio from equities into real assets, including agricultural land in the western United States."
Records show Flannery purchased large parcels of land near Travis Air Force Base, including several areas directly next to the base that houses the largest wing of the Air Mobility Command, which the Air Force uses for refueling and transporting military personnel and supplies.
"We don't know who Flannery is, and their extensive purchases do not make sense to anybody in the area," ...
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The company previously told Solano County that it “is owned by a group of families looking to diversify their portfolio from equities into real assets, including agricultural land in the western United States.”
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The Chinese are coming. The Chinese are coming.
5 will get you 10 the company is owned through other shell companies by the CCP.
Foreign nationals and corps should not be allowed to own land in the us.
“Air Force officials are investigating a series of land acquisitions amounting to nearly $1 billion near a major air base in California, “
I wonder if maybe either the Air Force or state or county are planning on something big in the area. I have noticed in the past, whenever a large ‘civic project’ is planned, there are certain friends of the some politicians that seem to have bought a lot of then land recently. Of course they had no advance knowledge of the planned project. Of course not.
“ I wonder if maybe either the Air Force or state or county are planning on something big in the area…”
Did someone leak the list of the next base closures?
Close 1/2 of our bases! Give all weapons to Ukraine! We do not need them. China will protect us! Sell our fleet off—we need electric warships only—all we really need is a coast guard. No more wars! The UN will make sure there will be world peace.
Glad Meatwad has a backup plan as a commercial real estate agent. LOFL!
Well, we have already close more than half of our bases since Clinton ruled. The UN will make whirled peas. Perhaps the peas will be well buttered.
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