Speaker 1: What's up, everyone, and welcome to another episode of the
Speaker 1: Epstein Chronicles. In this episode, we're going to pick up
Speaker 1: where we left off with the New Mexico prelim Report
Speaker 1: released by the Epstein Truth Commission in New Mexico. Although
Speaker 1: the record is voluminous, there are still significant gaps in
Speaker 1: the evidence. For instance, Epstein's email communication cover only the
Speaker 1: period between two thousand and nine and twenty nineteen. Moreover,
Speaker 1: past investigative efforts focused on limited targets in limited locations,
Speaker 1: whereas other locations where Epstein was alleged to have engaged
Speaker 1: in illegal activity, including New Mexico, were largely ignored. The
Speaker 1: Commission has not received full cooperation in obtaining evidence from
Speaker 1: federal and state entities that previously conducted investigations into Epstein's
Speaker 1: activities in New Mexico. The US Attorney's Office for the
Speaker 1: District of New Mexico has only partially responded to the
Speaker 1: commission subpoena for records, meaning that they have only returned
Speaker 1: sparse records of informationation that do not fully respond to
Speaker 1: the subpoena's request. Other DOJ components, including SDNY and the
Speaker 1: U S Attorney's Office for the Southern District of Florida,
Speaker 1: the Eastern and Western Districts of Michigan, and the District
Speaker 1: of South Carolina have refused to comply with the commissions
Speaker 1: subpoena or entirely ignored them. Documents released under the EFTA
Speaker 1: constitute an important source of evidence. However, there are numerous
Speaker 1: facts documented in documents released under EFTA that cannot be
Speaker 1: verified or adequately assessed for credibility. For instance, the FBI
Speaker 1: received a tip on November twenty fifth, twenty nineteen, that
Speaker 1: stated two dead bodies were buried at the ranch. The
Speaker 1: information through testimony of former Attorney General Hector Baldaris, revealed
Speaker 1: that tip was never provided to his office at the
Speaker 1: time it was given to the FBI. To date, the
Speaker 1: validity of the claim is unknown, nor is its source known.
Speaker 1: The statute does not grant DOJ unlimited discretion to withhold
Speaker 1: or redact material. It permits withholding only for five specific reasons,
Speaker 1: Protecting victims personally identifiable information, protecting against disclosure of child
Speaker 1: sexual abuse material, protecting active investigations narrowly and temporarily, protecting
Speaker 1: graphic images of death or abuse, and protecting properly classified
Speaker 1: national security information. Any redaction made under these grounds must
Speaker 1: come with a written justification published in the Federal Register,
Speaker 1: the government's official daily journal for regulations, notices, and legal announcements,
Speaker 1: and are reported to Congress. The law also contains a
Speaker 1: crucial restriction, no record may be withheld on the basis
Speaker 1: of embarrassment, reputational harm, or political sensitivity, including to any
Speaker 1: governmental official, public figure, or a foreign dignitary. Congress wrote
Speaker 1: that sentence transparently to prevent exactly the kind of selective
Speaker 1: redaction critics have accused DOJ being engaging in protecting the
Speaker 1: reputations a well connected people who appear in Epstein's orbit.
Speaker 1: The Commission takes the position that all records that the
Speaker 1: DOJ are withholding subject to EFTA should be released. Truth
Speaker 1: Commission Investigative theory and methodology. The commission's investigative strategy was
Speaker 1: to build its investigation from documents released under the EFTA
Speaker 1: as well as from information that exists within existing archives
Speaker 1: of various institutions, in order to prepare for interviewing or
Speaker 1: hitting with the subpoena individuals based on what information was
Speaker 1: uncovered or provided. This included subpoenas to institutions that would
Speaker 1: have knowledge which could lead the Truth Commission to build
Speaker 1: a body of knowledge surrounding Epstein and his co conspirator's actions.
Speaker 1: Rooted and objective information provided through subpoenas later, the individuals
Speaker 1: connected to the information are likely to be subpoenaed or
Speaker 1: requested later for direct conversations, interviews, or depositions. Thus far,
Speaker 1: the Commission has issued twenty subpoenas. The targets of all
Speaker 1: subpoenas issued, as well as the date of issuance and
Speaker 1: the target response to date, are reflected in the table below.
Speaker 1: New Mexico State Land Office June fifth, twenty twenty six
Speaker 1: response full compliance. New Mexico Governor's Office June eighth, twenty
Speaker 1: twenty six, Full compliance. New Mexico Attorney General's Office June eighth,
Speaker 1: twenty twenty six. Partial compliance, New Mexico Department of Public
Speaker 1: Safety June eighth, twenty twenty six. Full compliance. Santa Fe
Speaker 1: County Sheriff's Office June eighth, twenty twenty six, Full compliance,
Speaker 1: Santa Fe Institute June eighth, twenty twenty six, Full compliance.
Speaker 1: New Mexico Department of Health June twelfth, twenty twenty six.
Speaker 1: Full compliance. New Mexico Public Regulation Commission June twelfth, twenty
Speaker 1: twenty six. Full compliance. New Mexico Regular Tis and Licensing
Speaker 1: Department June twelfth, twenty twenty six. Full compliance. New Mexico
Speaker 1: State Records and Archives June twelfth, twenty twenty six. Full compliance.
Speaker 1: Federal Aviation Administration June twelfth, twenty twenty six. No response.
Speaker 1: United States Attorney's Office USAO New Mexico June twelfth, twenty
Speaker 1: twenty six. Partial compliance. USAO SDNY June sixteenth, twenty twenty six.
Speaker 1: Compliance refused. USAO SDFL June sixteenth, twenty twenty six, no response.
Speaker 1: Deutsche Bank June twentieth, twenty twenty six. Full compliance. Rolling
Speaker 1: JP Morgan June twentieth, twenty twenty six, no response. USAO
Speaker 1: EDMI June twenty third, twenty twenty six. No response, USAO
Speaker 1: USVII June twenty ninth, twenty twenty six, No response, USAO
Speaker 1: SC June twenty ninth, twenty twenty six response, USAOWDMI June thirtieth,
Speaker 1: twenty twenty six, no response. Of the twenty subpoenas issued,
Speaker 1: ten have been met with full compliance, two have been
Speaker 1: met with partial compliance, and eight have been met with
Speaker 1: refusals to comply or no response at all. The Commission
Speaker 1: has received over one hundred thousand records. In a response
Speaker 1: to all subpoena is issued thus far, the Commission will
Speaker 1: seek enforcement of subpoenas subject to an analysis weighing the
Speaker 1: likelihood of relevant evidence, the availability of evidence from other sources,
Speaker 1: and the availability of investigative resources. Subpoena is issued to
Speaker 1: federal agencies may have been accompanied by requests conforming to
Speaker 1: federal regulatory guidance as required by the US two Week
Speaker 1: versus Reagan three forty US four sixty two, nineteen fifty one.
Speaker 1: Federal agencies to include DOJ, which includes a component US
Speaker 1: Attorney's Office, an FBI, and the US Department of Transportation,
Speaker 1: which includes Federal Aviation Administration, have promulgated regulations, often referred
Speaker 1: to as TUE regulations, governing their response to federal or
Speaker 1: state subpoenas requesting testimony or records. All subpoenas are posted
Speaker 1: to the website www. New Mexico Truth Commission dot com.
Speaker 1: Epstein Zoro Ranch timeline March first, nineteen ninety three. Epstein
Speaker 1: acquires Zoro Ranch, buys the seventy six hundred acre property
Speaker 1: from the family of sitting New Mexico Governor Bruce King,
Speaker 1: holding title through the Zoro Trust. Nineteen ninety six, abuse
Speaker 1: survivors first documented abuse at the ranch. A minor is
Speaker 1: groomed at Zoro Ranch, beginning with unsolicited topless massage. Per
Speaker 1: the Maxwell indictment two thousand and four. Abuse survivors, minor
Speaker 1: flown to the ranch at age fifteen. A victim, Jane Doe,
Speaker 1: is flown to Zoro Ranch and sexually molested per her
Speaker 1: statement at Maxwell's sentencing two thousand and six, abuse survivors.
Speaker 1: Survivors report to the FBI. The FBI interviews a survivor
Speaker 1: who recounts nineteen ninety six interaction with Epstein and Maxwell
Speaker 1: in New York and at Zoro Ranch SDFL investigation. January first,
Speaker 1: two thousand and seven. Gary King takes office as New
Speaker 1: Mexico Attorney General two thousand and seven twenty ten. Jane Doe,
Speaker 1: five traffic to the ranch, alleges in litigation that Epstein
Speaker 1: took her to Zoro Ranch multiple times between two thousand
Speaker 1: and seven and twenty ten and coerced her into sex
Speaker 1: June thirtieth, two thousand and eight, Florida case. Epstein's Florida conviction.
Speaker 1: Convicted in Palm Beach of procuring a person under eighteen
Speaker 1: for prostitution. July twenty one, twenty ten, Florida case released
Speaker 1: from Florida custody. Epstein released from probation parole corrections after
Speaker 1: serving as Florida sentence Epstein and Zoro Ranch timeline twenty
Speaker 1: fifteen to twenty twenty six. January one, twenty fifteen, Hector
Speaker 1: Baldaris office as New Mexico a G. February twenty third,
Speaker 1: twenty eighteen, John C. Anderson, US Attorney sworn in as
Speaker 1: US attorney, the first Democratic New Mexico US attorney documented
Speaker 1: to take any action regarding Epstein. May through July of
Speaker 1: twenty nineteen. Balderis opens investigation. New Mexico Attorney General opens
Speaker 1: a criminal review. By July twenty nineteen, it's deferred to
Speaker 1: SDNY and per the commission never reopened before he left office.
Speaker 1: July eighth, twenty nineteen. Federal case. Epstein's federal indictment returned.
Speaker 1: SDNY grand jury indictment for sex trafficking of minors is unsealed.
Speaker 1: Epstein was arrested two days earlier July sixth, August tenth,
Speaker 1: twenty nineteen, federal case Epstein's death. Epstein dies in federal
Speaker 1: custody at Metropolitan Correctional Center in New York while awaiting trial.
Speaker 1: July second, twenty twenty, Glenn Maxwell's indictment returned Federal Grand
Speaker 1: Jury SGNY indictment charging Maxwell. She's arrested the same month.
Speaker 1: January third, twenty twenty one. US Attorney Frederick fred Federichi
Speaker 1: serves as US Attorney for the District of New Mexico.
Speaker 1: Between John Anderson and Alexander eu Balis December twenty ninth,
Speaker 1: twenty twenty one, federal case Maxwell's conviction convicted on five
Speaker 1: counts of sex trafficking and related charges, later sentenced twenty
Speaker 1: years May twenty fourth, twenty twenty two. Alexander Eubalis, US attorney,
Speaker 1: New Mexico. Sworn in as US Attorney for the District
Speaker 1: of New Mexico January first, twenty twenty three. Rouald Torres
Speaker 1: takes office as New Mexico A g. April eighteenth, twenty
Speaker 1: twenty five. Ryan Ellison, US attorney appointed by Attorney General Pambondi,
Speaker 1: sworn in April eighteenth, twenty twenty five never sent it confirmed.
Speaker 1: February sixteenth, twenty twenty five Survivor's Truth Commission established. The
Speaker 1: New Mexico House of Representatives approves House Resolution I by
Speaker 1: a vote of sixty two to zero, creating the Commission
Speaker 1: and directing it to investigate Epstein's activities in New Mexico.
Speaker 1: February nineteenth, twenty twenty six. Ag Torres opens the Epstein investigation.
Speaker 1: The Commission has also had contact with numerous witnesses, potential witnesses,
Speaker 1: potential and actual survivors, and other persons of interest. Of
Speaker 1: these contacts, some were the result of unsolicited emails, in
Speaker 1: person interactions, telephone calls, or text messages. In addition, the Commission,
Speaker 1: either directly or through its hired council, has interviewed or
Speaker 1: engaged with a number of witnesses. Additional witnesses have been
Speaker 1: identified through review of records or based on leads obtained
Speaker 1: through witness interviews. All persons identified in this interim report
Speaker 1: our potential witnesses the Commission may interview or depose. Mission
Speaker 1: Council will endeavor to interview and or to pose witnesses
Speaker 1: as necessary, and try to the extent possible, either through
Speaker 1: voluntary appearance or by means of compulsory process. It's anticipated
Speaker 1: that some of the witnesses will resist the Commission's investigative efforts.
Speaker 1: The Commission expects that formal witness interviews and depositions will
Speaker 1: occur following thorough review an organization of the considerable documentary
Speaker 1: record released under the EFTA and anticipated upon return of
Speaker 1: the commission subpoena. The Truth Commission is following current litigation
Speaker 1: regarding the EFTA, including the recent decision of the U. S.
Speaker 1: District Court for the District of Columbia and Fang versus
Speaker 1: Blanche ordering Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche to turn over
Speaker 1: EFTA records and defend redactions. Additionally, Congress has pending legislation
Speaker 1: to allow Epstein's survivors to litigate to release their own
Speaker 1: personal documents provided to the federal DOJ. Addition to watchdog
Speaker 1: external events and possibilities for obtaining greater resources of information
Speaker 1: from the DOJ, Formal interviews and the taking of sworn
Speaker 1: testimony will be sequenced in a manner that best advances
Speaker 1: the Commission's investigative goals. All right, folks, we're gonna wrap
Speaker 1: up right here and in the next episode, we're gonna
Speaker 1: pick up where we left off. All the information that
Speaker 1: goes with this episode can be found in the description box.