Tech moguls used ‘Strong-Armed’ tactics to buy land for secret city, farmers say
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A group of landowners say a Silicon Valley-backed company trying to build a sustainable city northeast of San Francisco used unfair and “strong-armed” tactics to force farmers to sell their land, including pitting family members against each other, court documents show.The details emerged on Friday as part of a lawsuit the company, Flannery Associates LLC, filed in May in District Court in Sacramento, alleging various farmers conspired to inflate the value of their land by $170 million. The landowners deny the claim and are seeking to dismiss the suit. We are now on WhatsApp. Click to join. The latest allegations, contained in a report on a conference held by both parties in September, provide the most complete account to date of the landowners' accusations against Flannery, whic...