Jeffrey Epstein’s Zorro ranch in New Mexico was mentioned more than 13,000 times in the Epstein files. But acting Attorney General Todd Blanche and Jay Clayton, US attorney for the Southern District of New York, each of whom is a nominee for permanent Trump cabinet positions, have only turned over 31 pages of non-useful information. They are stonewalling the rest of it.
NM Attorney General Raúl Torrez told MS Now on Thursday night why his office is on the verge of suing the DOJ for its failure to cooperate. As Torrez explained, New Mexico “stood down” its 2019 state investigation into Epstein crimes at the request of the Southern District of New York. The SDNY had agreed to refer back to NM any state-related matters once its case concluded.
Clayton claims to be withholding Zorro Ranch documents out of some sort of concern for privacy and protection orders.
Torrez is calling BS.
“I’m a former federal prosecutor myself,” Torrez said. “We used to work routinely with state law enforcement, sharing information, identifying leads, possible suspects, identifying witnesses. We usually have pretty collaborative relationships when it comes to this kind of information sharing, especially, as in this case, when the state has already initiated its own criminal investigation.”