Mr Finlay said he met with the land agent in spring 2010 to discuss renting one of the Buchanan Trust farms, who said a property would be available in six months.

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Dean Crabbs, Alaskabased Federal Bureau of Land Management special agent, estimates the public may have lost hundreds of millions in these scams.

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They accused Shabaneh-- their trusted henchman when it came to land sales to Jews - of being an Israeli agent.

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His first agent dropped him, and he struggled to even land commercials.

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Either someone told the agency to bug the highest judge in the land, or the senator's phone was bugged or an agent was freelancing.

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The drilling companies typically acquire leases with landholders who have access to oil and mineral rights below their land by using a landman (either an employee of the company or an independent agent), who offers a fixed price per acre for the right to drill, plus a royalty percentage of the value of the produced hydrocarbons.

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He told The Conspiracy Files that if he was a terrorist involved in the bombing he would have been handed over to the Americans long ago and that if he was an agent he would have been "taken out" or living under an assumed identity in a foreign land.

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