by Micaela Burrows, The Daily Caller:
Tech industry investors revealed to be behind a multi-year scheme to buy up land in a rural area of California near a major U.S. Air Force base are racing to gain support for a peculiar urban construction project, The New York Times reported Tuesday.
Silicon Valley moguls invested nearly $900 million buying up acres of farmland in Solano County, often far above the market price, under a firm named Flannery Associates with hopes of constructing a utopia-like city on the area, according to the NYT. Now, the executives must beguile local entities, as well as lawmakers and federal agencies who spent months or years seeking to identify the personalities behind Flannery and rule out prospects nefarious intent, into supporting the expansive project.