North Dakota AG Asks Trust Linked to Bill Gates to Justify Land Buy: ‘People Are… Just Livid About This’![[Linked Image from am12.mediaite.com]](https://am12.mediaite.com/med/cnt/uploads/2020/10/bill-gates.jpg)
The North Dakota Attorney General’s office has asked a trust reportedly linked to billionaire Bill Gates to justify a recent purchase of farmland in the state.
KFYR in Bismarck, North Dakota reported Red River Trust purchased land in Pembina County that borders Canada to the north and Minnesota to the east.
Reporter Christa Kiedrowski connected the firm to Gates. She wrote:
A large land sale completed in northeast North Dakota that was confirmed by North Dakota Ag Commissioner Doug Goehring is creating controversy. It’s not the big price tag that is being questioned but who was involved in the transaction. A trust that has ties to Bill Gates acquired six parcels of land in Pembina County.
Tuesday, the office of the Attorney General sent out a letter asking the Red River Trust to confirm how the company plans to use the land and if it meets any of the exceptions to the North Dakota Corporate Farming Laws.
In the letter from Attorney General Phil Wrigley to Red River Trust, the state’s top law enforcement officer asked the trust to confirm how it intends to use the land.
“In North Dakota, under N.D.C.C. ch. 10-06.1, all corporations or limited liability companies (LLC) are prohibited from owning or leasing farmland or ranchland, and from engaging in farming or ranching,” Wrigley wrote. “In addition, the law places certain limitations on the ability of trusts to own farmland or ranchland.”
Gates confirmed an investment group buys land on his behalf for the purpose of developing seeds and biofuel. His purchases have become the subject of numerous conspiracy theories.
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