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<blockquote data-quote="Daniel Avery" data-source="post: 441089" data-attributes="member: 27">The plans presented to the public billed Empire Valley as this benign, residential development with &quot;light industry&quot; to employ people close to where they live.&nbsp; They were planning some above-board business/industry as a cover while simultaneously running that eavesdropping thing underneath/in secret.&nbsp; Karen seemed to be buying into their PR campaign, but of course the developers would try a bit harder to convince their Lotus Point neighbors that the place was environmentally responsible and all that stuff.&nbsp; We learned through Peter and Jill that Galveston had purposely poisoned the water supply of their Empire Valley-adjacent hometown (Wesphall) in order to give the locals a reason to move away, making it appear that he really, really thought this spot (arsenic and all) was some ideal spot for eavesdropping on satellites.&nbsp; But there was a &quot;genuine&quot; town right there to provide cover...so why chase them out, only to rebuild a community in the same area?Greg was so obsessed with taking EV from Gary that I don&#039;t think they ever had him openly acknowledge what a white elephant it turned out to be.&nbsp; His scheme to run all the Lotus Point partners into bankruptcy by dragging his feet on the cleanup showed he still held a major grudge.&nbsp; It even impacted his marriage to Laura, who was friends with Karen and Gary and a minority owner of LP (something like 10%).&nbsp; I do recall Greg being a jerk to them at the LP grand reopening by bragging how they could not have reopened LP had it not been for his company cleaning it up.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Daniel Avery, post: 441089, member: 27"] The plans presented to the public billed Empire Valley as this benign, residential development with "light industry" to employ people close to where they live. They were planning some above-board business/industry as a cover while simultaneously running that eavesdropping thing underneath/in secret. Karen seemed to be buying into their PR campaign, but of course the developers would try a bit harder to convince their Lotus Point neighbors that the place was environmentally responsible and all that stuff. We learned through Peter and Jill that Galveston had purposely poisoned the water supply of their Empire Valley-adjacent hometown (Wesphall) in order to give the locals a reason to move away, making it appear that he really, really thought this spot (arsenic and all) was some ideal spot for eavesdropping on satellites. But there was a "genuine" town right there to provide cover...so why chase them out, only to rebuild a community in the same area? Greg was so obsessed with taking EV from Gary that I don't think they ever had him openly acknowledge what a white elephant it turned out to be. His scheme to run all the Lotus Point partners into bankruptcy by dragging his feet on the cleanup showed he still held a major grudge. It even impacted his marriage to Laura, who was friends with Karen and Gary and a minority owner of LP (something like 10%). I do recall Greg being a jerk to them at the LP grand reopening by bragging how they could not have reopened LP had it not been for his company cleaning it up. [/QUOTE]

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