'We got the F.B.I. and Treasury involved': 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.