Because I have friends in New Mexico, I’ve heard more about Zorro Ranch than I’ve read in the national newspapers. The isolated site is said to have been the worst of several places where Jeffrey Epstein and his friends abused children. If your pastime is criminal, you tend to like isolation. Rural New Mexico has plenty.
A lot of the ranch’s land was leased from the state, and so the question came up: How could the state have failed to have acted on the abuse complaints? Why did it fail to act against Epstein, who wasn’t following the terms of his lease?
The state attorney general at the time, Hector Balderas, said he did investigate. He said his investigation was called off in 2019 by the U.S. Justice Department. The idea was the federal authorities would take charge of the investigation. But my friends in New Mexico say that The New Mexican, Santa Fe’s daily paper, has reported that the U.S. Justice Department never visited Zorro Ranch or interviewed any of the abused children.
If your memory needs help, the U.S. attorney general in 2019 was William Barr, who had the reputation for doing whatever the president wanted. The president was Donald Trump.
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