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.
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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.
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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.
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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
mopinko
(74,118 posts)ABC123Easy
(432 posts)"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)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; Epsteins 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)The only way out for Democrats, and for the Nation, is though it. Ive 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)You can see the email that Jeffery Epstein sent to Peter Thiel after the 2016 election.
progressoid
(53,439 posts)Warpy
(114,742 posts)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)Maureen Comey told AG Balderas to stand down in a telephone call.
Its good to be suspicious, but casting baseless aspersions against Balderas is irresponsible.
Warpy
(114,742 posts)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.
Joinfortmill
(21,811 posts)Cherokee100
(464 posts)Can we say 'The Fourth Reich' ? I think we can.