Mark Zuckerberg has added a reserve to his impressive Hawaii property portfolio, but this one comes with a haunted past.
The 37-year-old Facebook-turned-Meta mogul and his wife, Priscilla Chan, have purchased a whopping 110 acres of what used to be a sugar plantation reservoir on the island of Kauai for a reported $17 million. Their land also includes the Ka Loko Reservoir, which caused a major tragedy in 2006 when one of its dams failed and dumped 400 gallons of water in the town of Kilauea, Hawaii.
Several homes were destroyed in the flood. Most importantly, 7 people lost their lives, including one toddler and a pregnant woman. The owner of the dam James Pflueger was held responsible for the deaths. He was reportedly indicted for manslaughter and reckless endangerment, serving 7 months in prison.
He died in 2017 at the age of 91.
According to reports, the families of the victims settled for $25 million in 2009. The reservoir’s controversial history is the least of Zuckerberg’s worries. The tech mogul has caught plenty of heat with locals who believe he’s colonizing the island.
He’s slowly been scooping up land on the island over the past several years. The problem is, most of the acres he’s nabbed include protected agricultural and conservation land.
In 2014, he bought 700 acres for $100 million. He also grabbed an additional 600 acres for $53 million.
Zuckerberg and their wife began building their forever home Ko‘olau Ranch in 2017. The Facebook founder’s spokesperson revealed the couple planned on expanding.
“Mark and Priscilla continue to make their home at Ko‘olau Ranch,” Ben LaBolt told the Star-Advertiser. He said the two were planning on farming and ranching.
Locals are pissed because Zuckerberg sued native Hawaiians who owned parts of the land in 2017. He filed lawsuits against them in an effort to force them to sell off their land so he could “enhance” his building plans.
Zuckerberg later dropped the lawsuits, but he’s still not on locals’ good graces.
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Original Article: Mark Zuckerberg Buys 110 Acres Of Reserve In Hawaii Where 7 Died, Including a Pregnant Woman (radaronline.com)
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How much land do two people need to build their “forever home”? Aren’t they scared climate change will flood/sink the island? The rich have no shame!!
He might be filthy rich, and he won’t take it with him, but worshiping money, will not make points with God, when He calls him home! That is what I was talking about…his ‘forever home’! NOT PRETTY!
Your news team should get it right. $00 gallons of watewr won’t kill anyone unless they held their heads in the water trough it was in !
Zuckerberg is a scumbag along with his ugly wife. I hope someday he gets exactly what’s coming to him.
Of course he and his other climate change pals are not afraid. They all know that it is a scam perpetrated on the world to destroy the common, unwealthy people. God will deal with them just as he manages the weather. Their after life may well be an eternity of hurricanes, volcanos, tsunamis etc. if God so chooses.
Who cares what the souless pig of Satan does, this little fruit cake with too much money can’t buy his way out of burning in hell, and that I think is hilarious the karma on this little pigs soul is doomed in hell for his participation and the attack of the American peoples freedom of speech and of censorship, the one good thing about all these demons are one day they’re going to wind up in a hospital, if I was the nurse or doctor I made sure he gets every one of Biden’s death shots