New Mexico Attorney General Raúl Torrez on Thursday released a letter sent to U.S Department of Justice officials contending the federal agency has delayed release of multiple records related to the state’s criminal investigation of the late convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein’s activities at his Zorro Ranch in Santa Fe.
The June 30 letter asserts that the heavily redacted “open-source” records establish multiple survivors brought to Epstein’s Zorro Ranch in Santa Fe County “on numerous occasions, where they were subjected to sexual abuse and exploitation.” Moreover, those records, Torrez writes, show that the USDOJ has records that contain the names of survivors, witnesses, co-conspirators and others the New Mexico Department of Justice needs to “fulfill its obligation to investigate and prosecute criminal conduct” that occurred in the state. Thus far, he says, New Mexico’s efforts to “obtain these materials through cooperative means have been extensive” and unsuccessful, with more than 130 days passing since the AG’s initial request.

