Garamendi said there are valid concerns that Flannery’s land acquisitions could be tied to foreign enemies. The Air Force’s Foreign Investment Risk Review office is currently investigating Flannery Associates. Attorneys for Flannery said they believe “this is a simple case about a group of wealthy landowners who saw an opportunity to conspire, collude, price fix and illegally overcharge Flannery.” NewsNation reviewed a copy of the lawsuit. “In fact, that has happened to at least one family that I know of and I’ve heard rumors that another family simply said we can’t afford the lawyers.” “It’s a suit designed to force the farmers to lawyer up, spend tens of thousands of dollars on lawyering and maybe at the end of the day, bankrupt themselves,” Garamendi said. But now, Flannery is suing those families for $510 million, accusing them of conspiring together to inflate the value of the land. Since no California laws require them to sell, the land was bargained for by both parties at a much higher price. He said they didn’t want to sell in the first place. In an interview with NewsNation, Garamendi said he’s been in contact with the families of farmers who handed over their land to Flannery. John Garamendi, D-Calif., has been speaking out over the past five years about the $800 million in land acquisitions by Flannery Associates near Travis Air Force Base in Northern California. ( NewsNation) - While questions remain about a mystery company buying 52,000 acres of land near an Air Force base, a congressman says farmers in the area are being targeted in a lawsuit.
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