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Uncle Joe

(65,817 posts)
Mon Jun 8, 2026, 01:47 PM 9 hrs ago

Former New Mexico AG says he was told to stand down in Epstein ranch probe

Former New Mexico Attorney General Hector Balderas first started looking into Epstein and the Zorro Ranch in 2019.

(snip)

The word “Zorro” appears nearly 14,000 times in files connected to Epstein released by the Department of Justice, but the land has never been searched by federal authorities, and unredacted files have not been turned over to the New Mexico Department of Justice for its ongoing investigation.

(snip)

Allegations of crimes committed at the property include rape, sexual assault of minors, forced births and eugenics, according to accounts from Epstein survivors, their diary entries, and from the millions of files released by the Department of Justice.

(snip)

Months before Epstein was arrested in 2019, Balderas says he was well into building a state case and had just returned from interviewing an Epstein survivor when he received a call from the Southern District of New York.

(snip)

“I'm convinced that those answers are not in the documents that have been released,” Balderas said. “But they're in the millions of documents that are currently being withheld.”

https://www.scrippsnews.com/us-news/crime/epstein-files/former-new-mexico-ag-says-he-was-told-to-stand-down-in-epstein-ranch-probe
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Former New Mexico AG says he was told to stand down in Epstein ranch probe (Original Post) Uncle Joe 9 hrs ago OP
sdny needs to b blown up. mopinko 9 hrs ago #1
Wow ABC123Easy 8 hrs ago #2
I AM NOT A NUT . . . but this has gone too far. AverageOldGuy 8 hrs ago #3
Everything is tainted by these crimes Ponietz 7 hrs ago #7
It is part of a multi generational and international criminal operation and it is the largest one in history. Botany 6 hrs ago #9
2019...2019...checking notes...who was president in 2019? progressoid 8 hrs ago #4
Who told him to stand down? How was it communicated? Warpy 7 hrs ago #5
Reading the article is a definite plus when one has questions Ponietz 7 hrs ago #6
Alas, my ability to read pages of text is sorely impaired Warpy 2 hrs ago #11
At some point all the horrors will be revealed. Joinfortmill 7 hrs ago #8
Can we say Cherokee100 6 hrs ago #10

ABC123Easy

(432 posts)
2. Wow
Mon Jun 8, 2026, 02:51 PM
8 hrs ago

"I'm convinced that those answers are not in the documents that have been released,” Balderas said. “But they're in the millions of documents that are currently being withheld.”

If that's true then Bondi, Blanche, Patel, etc.....have ALL been lying under oath to Congress.

Let's hope the next Dem AG is willing to prosecute this.

AverageOldGuy

(4,276 posts)
3. I AM NOT A NUT . . . but this has gone too far.
Mon Jun 8, 2026, 03:02 PM
8 hrs ago

I am NOT a wackjob conspiracy theorist —- but —- Trump and Putin; Epstein with a huge fortune that no one knows where it came from; one Senator is digging into Epstein financial records and finding hundreds of millions in transactions to/from Europe; every investigation into anything about Epstein has been squelched by various authorities; Trump will pardon Maxwell in exchange for her silence after which she will commit suicide; Epstein’s “suicide”; and on and on and on.


This thing goes deep, deep, deep and we likely will never hear anything close to the full story.

Ponietz

(4,506 posts)
7. Everything is tainted by these crimes
Mon Jun 8, 2026, 03:39 PM
7 hrs ago

The only way out for Democrats, and for the Nation, is though it. I’ve said here for 8 years that confrontation was inevitable and best ASAP. Former AG Garland is on my all-time shit list.

Botany

(78,035 posts)
9. It is part of a multi generational and international criminal operation and it is the largest one in history.
Mon Jun 8, 2026, 04:25 PM
6 hrs ago
https://thiswillhold.substack.com/p/merrick-garland-and-the-octopus

You can see the email that Jeffery Epstein sent to Peter Thiel after the 2016 election.

Warpy

(114,742 posts)
5. Who told him to stand down? How was it communicated?
Mon Jun 8, 2026, 03:25 PM
7 hrs ago

These are two questions that were never asked, let alone answered, by any state AG who claims he buried an investigation because some shadowy entity told him to.

Ponietz

(4,506 posts)
6. Reading the article is a definite plus when one has questions
Mon Jun 8, 2026, 03:35 PM
7 hrs ago

Maureen Comey told AG Balderas to stand down in a telephone call.

It’s good to be suspicious, but casting baseless aspersions against Balderas is irresponsible.

Warpy

(114,742 posts)
11. Alas, my ability to read pages of text is sorely impaired
Mon Jun 8, 2026, 08:58 PM
2 hrs ago

so thank you for filling in that particular blank.

Aw, lookee, it's James Comey's daughter.

What little I can manage to read makes her look pretty shady. In 2019 she was 30, so there is likely some food chain that needs to be nibbled through, no way would someone that age initiate such a phone call on her own.

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