So this is about to get freaky...
David Brock and James Alefantis sold a house to Scott & Luz Driscoll for 2.25 million back in 2013: http://www.pressreader.com/usa/the-washington-post/20130613/282741994358283 (link dead already, anyone got an archive please) - further proof: https://image.isu.pub/130920155905-670c3c030807fd29e0eb188eb277ecb3/jpg/page_106.jpg (full original article: https://issuu.com/washingtonlife/docs/0913_digital/106))
Scott T. Driscoll passed away a year before Comet Ping Pong opens, and 8 years before he buys the property with his wife from James & David: http://www.masterdeathfile.pub-dat.org/Deceased/Index/153747065
[History -- Founding and Carole Greenwood -- Comet Ping Pong was originally founded by James Alefantis and Carole Greenwood in 2006. Source: Wikipedia]
Through a google search, we find Luz and Scott Driscoll are linked to this address: blockshopper.com/dc/washington-county-dc/washington-kalorama/property/25190282/2310-california-street-nw (page doesn't load for me)
Which is the same address David Brock and James Alefantis purchased back in 2007: http://washingtonlife.com/issues/march-2007/real-estate-news/index.php - "In Kalorama, 2310 California Street, N.W, now belongs to bestselling author David Brock and his partner, restaurateur James Alefantis."
With database searches of James Alefantis, it confirms this property as his as well as other properties listed under that name:
1.
6513 Brawner ST
Mc Lean, VA 22101
2.
2310 California ST NW
Washington, DC 20008-1637
3.
1536 Swann ST NW
Washington, DC 20009
4.
1352 Bradley DR
Harrisonburg, VA 22801
5.
5037 Connecticut AVE NW
Washington, DC 20008
Lets keep digging boys.
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zoltan907 ago
From the same link: "The sellers were Hugo Gurdon, editor-in-chief of The Hill newspaper, and Meghan Cox Gurdon, who reviews children's books for the Wall Street Journal. Washington Fine Properties agent Jim Bell listed the property for $1,799,000 and served as the selling agent."
The Gurdons are listed on blockshopper.com as having sold the property three times: to L'Enfant (Trust) on Nov. 24, 2003; to Todd B. Ewing on Dec. 6, 2004 (how did they get it back from L'Enfant?); then they bought it again from Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems Inc. on Jan. 26, 2005; and then someone Ann L. and Julius Kaplan acquired it (they're listed as both buyers and sellers); and then the Gurdons sold it again to Brock and Alefantis. That looks very weird!
Freemasonsrus ago
Yea that's not unusual or anything. /s