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The Air Force's Foreign Investment Risk Review office is investigating Flannery Associates,
美国空军外国投资风险审查办公室正在对弗兰纳里有限公司展开调查，
a group of landowners who have purchased almost 52,000 acres zoned for agricultural use near the Travis Air Force Base in California.
这是一群该公司是由一些土地所有者构成，他们在加州特拉维斯空军基地附近购买了近5.2万英亩的土地，划为农业用地。
According to the Wall Street Journal, questions about their intentions with the land are raising concerns.
据《华尔街日报》报道，有关他们对这片土地的意图的质疑引发了人们的担忧。
Legal representation for Flannery says the group is controlled by U.S. citizens, with 97 percent of its capital coming from U.S. investors.
弗兰纳里有限公司的法律代表称，该公司是由美国公民控制的，97%的资金来自美国投资者。
But even after the last eight months of investigating these land acquisitions,
但即使在过去八个月间对这些土地收购进行调查之后，
federal officials say they can't confirm or deny Flannery's assertions to be true,
联邦官员表示，他们仍旧无法证实或否认弗兰纳里有限公司的说法是否属实，
and still have not been able to determine exactly who is backing Flannery.
并且目前还不能确定到底是谁在支持该公司。
California congressman John Garamendi says, "We don't know who Flannery is, and their extensive purchases do not make sense to anybody in the area."
加州国会议员约翰·加拉曼迪表示：“我们不知道弗兰纳里究竟是一家什么样的公司，他们的大规模采购对该地区的任何人来说都没有意义。”
Flannery Associates sent a letter to the U.S. Department of Agriculture, one of the many federal agencies probing the land purchases, saying,
弗兰纳里有限公司在一封致美国农业部--众多调查土地购买的联邦机构之一--的信件中表示，
"No foreign person or group holds any significant interest of substantial control over Flannery, either now or at the time of any land purchase."
“无论是现在还是在弗兰纳里购买土地时，没有任何外国个人或团体对弗兰纳里持有任何重大利益或实质性控制权。”
