The Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States is probing a secretive company that has been buying up land around Travis Air Force Base in Solano County
a secretive company that has been buying up land around a key Air Force base in Northern California, sources familiar with the matter and a California lawmaker told CNN.
Flannery is not required by Delaware law to disclose its owners. Attorneys representing the company did not return CNN’s requests for comment, but previously told the Wall Street Journal that British and Irish investors make up 3% of the company’s invested capital, with the rest being from US investors. They also denied that Flannery’s purchases were motivated by the proximity to Travis Air Force Base.
Garamendi said he and Democratic Rep. Mike Thompson, who also represents parts of Solano County, contacted the FBI and CFIUS last year to urge them to investigate the transactions, expressing concern that the land could be used for spying. He pointed to a situation that played out earlier this year near Grand Forks Air Force Base in North Dakota, when a Chinese company’s plans to build a corn mill roughly 12 miles from the base were blocked by county officials on national security grounds.
Garamendi said the fact that the company owns land so close to Travis Air Force Base, home of the largest wing of the Air Force’s Air Mobility Command, creates “the potential for any sort of nefarious activity.” Adding to the lawmakers’ concerns, they say, it is also still unclear to them what the company intends to do with the more than 50,000 acres of land it has purchased, often at rates much higher than the nominal value of the land, the lawmakers told CNN.
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