Speaker 1: What's up, everyone, and welcome to another episode of the
Epstein Chronicles. Right after Jeffrey Epstein's arrest in twenty nineteen,
there were state investigations that were underway as well, and
according to reports that we have now, the federal government
killed these state investigations and made the states kick the
case to the federal government. And previously we were talking
about how the Feds told the SDN why to stand down. Well,
now we're hearing that the same direction was given to
the authorities in New Mexico. So you have to ask yourself,
why was the federal government so gung ho on being
in control of everything when it comes to prosecuting Jeffrey Epstein,
especially considering the first time around they wanted to keep
it at the state level. But now, all of a sudden,
it's a different story. You don't want the states involved,
you don't want them looking into what happened, you don't
want them looking into co conspirators. Why not? What's the
federal government trying to hide and why? Well, of course
we know now, or at least we can speculate to
a pretty good degree that Jeffrey Epstein was being protected
because he was an asset. So the government had to
protect their asset right, and to do that, they had
to have all the right pieces in place. They couldn't
rely on the state to play ball because the state
doesn't answer to the DOJ, So they had to make
sure that they had the proper people there to facilitate
the whole entire cover up. And boy did they do that.
So today, like usual, I have some receipts to share
with you, and to do that, we're going to take
a look at an article from the Albuquerque Journal headlined
fedsass New Mexico to halt its Epstein probe Former ag
Balderas cooperation between state and federal investigators was one way.
And let's not forget that when the arrest happened, Trump
was in office then too, so did he white love them?
Sure looks that way. Obviously we can't prove that yet,
but that's the way it's looking. The author of this
article is Olivier Udobrackh. Federal prosecutors in twenty nineteen asked
New Mexico officials to halt their investigation into sex trafficking
activities at Jeffrey Epstein's or O ranch, agreeing to share
information that potentially could have led to criminal charges here.
And that is exactly what I reported when I was
down in New Mexico. The sources I was talking to
said that they were told to stand down, that the
Feds were going to take care of everything. Well, lo
and behold. Now we have the receipts. New Mexico lived
up to its end of the agreement, ending its investigation
and providing police reports, recorded witness interviews, and other investigative
records to the US Attorney's Office for the Southern District
of New York. Former Attorney General Hector Baldaris said last week,
and look, this is something that happens relatively often, as
far as you know, a case being tried by the
federal government as opposed to the state, depending on jurisdiction,
depending on sovereignty, and depending on who has the biggest penalty.
So a lot of times you'll see this kind of
deal happen where something gets kicked to the federal government
or maybe gets kicked back down to the state level
if we're talking about you know, petit policy or something.
But when we're talking about a case like this continuously
time and time again, where the FED stepped in and
they told the state to stop investigating, and then the
Feds themselves get stuck in the mud. What else are
we supposed to think? I mean negligent behavior and people
doing a shitty job that only goes so far. I
think that we've reached that point a long time ago.
Enough is enough. Bal Daris, who served as Attorney General
from twenty fourteen to twenty twenty two, said he's unaware
that federal investigators provided any information to New Mexico officials
that could have led to criminal prosecutions here. And I've
always said that the states that were most affected should
open state investigations as we speak, and use dual sovereignty
if they have to to go after people that were involved.
I mean, they have the tools in their toolbox. The
problem is a lot of them just don't have the
courage to do it for whatever reason. Now it looks
like New Mexico is starting to play ball a little
bit and they're going to pursue this, which is good.
But what about New York. I mean, the crimes that
were committed in New York, it's very obvious they have
a mountain of evidence, and at the state level they
could use that evidence to go after prosecutions, and if
the federal government won't do it, it's up to these
staid prosecutors to have the courage. Now, of course, that's
all based on the evidence, right If there's evidence that
could lead to prosecutions, that evidence should be acted upon.
You See, like I've said a million times, but I'll
say it again, the biggest problem here is there was
never a real investigation. So anybody who's saying this has
all been looked at is lying to you because there
was never a real investigation. And you see that right here.
I mean, everybody kicks it up to the Feds, and
then all we get from the FEDS is that narrow
decision to go after Maxwell or self. I think it's
relatively obvious at this point what the federal government was
trying to do, and that is be in control of
the whole entire thing. That way, the narrative they want
to pitch is a narrative that all their little lap
dogs in the legacy media run with, and that's exactly
what has happened time and time again. But anybody who's
serious about the case knows there was never an investigation,
and these files coming out have been the receipts to
prove it. Cooperation between the two agencies was a one
way relationship, he said. Records released in January by the
US Department of Justice related to Epstein investigations include letters
and emails between Balderis's office and federal prosecutors, shed light
on New Mexico's decision to scrap its investigation. Maybe somebody
should ask Bill Barr why his DOJ decided to do that. Look,
if you're going to have the states kill their investigations
and kick them up to you, then you have to
do the right thing right. You have to investigate and
you have to prosecute. But I'm telling you right now,
they were under the impression that what's in these files
is so explosive that neither side was ever going to
release them, So they knew they could do whatever they
wanted pretty much as far as the investigation goes, because
they were working under the assumption that we would never
see it. But now that that has been shattered, they're
scrambling to try and fill in the gaps and continue
their cover up. But I don't think it's working, especially
when you have people like Balderas coming out and blowing
their narrative directly out of the water. The request by
federal prosecutors essentially gutted New Mexico's investigation into sex trafficking
at Epstein's seventy five hundred acre Zoro Ranch, located thirty
miles south of Santa Fe, Balderas said. Balderis now as
president of Northern New Mexico College in Espanola. It makes
a lot more sense now why his office wouldn't give
me any information when I contacted them when I was
down in New Mexico. If the Feds took the case,
well they're not going to let the local office talk
about what's going on, right, So they referred me to
the DOJ, and like usual, the DOJ told me to
pound sand. But with this common information, it makes sense
the DOJ never had any desire to look deeper into
what was going on in places like New Mexico, or
places like New York, or places like Florida. Even it
was all about the federal investigation so they could be
in control, so they could narrow the scope. And that's
not speculation anymore. We have the evidence right here. We
provided information to them to strengthen their prosecution, he said,
prosecutors made assurances they would provide findings to New Mexico investigators.
They were making the representation that they were going to
prosecute with a multi jurisdictional, multi state focus. Yeah, that's
what they should have done. That's what the evidence required.
This was a Rico case, span states, span jurisdictions, spanned continents.
But sure, let's just charge Glaine. Maxwell. Baldera's office also
sent a letter in twenty twenty urging federal prosecutors to
seize control of Zoro Ranch to preserve evidence. Record show.
Balderis said he offered to assist serving search warrants at
the ranch, but never received a response and has no
reason to believe prosecutors acted on the requests. There was never, ever, ever,
ever a rate of Zoro Ranch. One of the biggest problems,
and now we're finding out there was never even an
investigation or raid in Colorado either. But sure tell me
about that great investigation that the federal government put forward
when it comes to Jeffrey Epstein. Federal prosecutors asked New
Mexico to halt its investigation to avoid risks of parallel
investigations creating inconsistent statements that defense attorneys could exploit. Baldaris
said none of the investigative records provided by New Mexico
appeared to be among the more than three million pages
of documents released last month by the US Department of Justice.
So where's the documentation? Is Valderas lying. I mean, I
don't put it past them, but I have to default
that it's the federal government that's besing us, because that's
all they've been doing and that's all they continue to do.
In light of the recent disclosures, I remain very concerned
that they did not disclose or share more information that
they had in their possession, Valderis said of federal investigators,
he called the failure to work with state and state
investigators a tactical mistake. The US Attorney's Office for the
Southern District of New York did not respond last week
to email messages seeking comment. New Mexico ended its investigation
in July of twenty nineteen, shortly before Epstein died by
suicide in August of twenty nineteen while in custody facing
federal sex trafficking charges. I know, I know, just another coincidence.
Attorney General Ronald Dorrez recently announced that the new Mexico
Department of Justice is reopening its investigation into Epstein's Zoro Ranch.
Torres said in a February eighteenth statement that revelations outlined
in the previously sealed FBI files warrant further investigation. Well,
what do you know, They most certainly do, and Zoro
Ranch most certainly is at the top of the list.
Torres also said he plans to work with the Legislative
Truth Finding Commission created by the House earlier this month
to investigate activities at Zoro Ranch. The four member commission
will not have the ability to directly launch criminal investigations,
but will be able to subpoenal witnesses here testimony, and
coordinate with law enforcement agencies. So whatever they find, if
they find anything, they'll have to take that to Rabald
Torres and he'll have to decide what he's going to
do with it. Torres also those set he plans to
work with the Legislative Truth Finding Commission created by the
House earlier this month to investigate activities ads or a Ranch.
The four member commission will not have the ability to
directly launch criminal investigations, but will be able to subpoena
witnesses here testimony and coordinate with law enforcement agencies. The
House members appointed to the commission are State reps Andrea Rometto,
Marianna Anaya, Andrea reb and Bill Hall. Reeb is a
former prosecutor and Hall is a retired FBI agent. So
they should be able to at least know what they're
looking at, right, I mean, you would hope. Torres chief
of staff Lauren Rodriguez said Friday that the New Mexico
Department of Justice has not received any correspondence from federal
prosecutors in New York since Torres took office in January
of twenty twenty three. Baldaras Seti supports both torris decision
to revive the state investigation and Lawmaker's formation of the
truth finding Commission. Epstein ran a complex international sex trafficking
operation that should have involved attorney generals in several states,
including New Mexico, Florida, and New York, where Epstein had homes.
Valdera said the investigation should have been broadened, not narrowed.
He said, well, hallelujah. The fact that it was narrowed
tells me what I need to know that this is
was has been and always will be a cover up.
Marine Comi, then an assistant US attorney for the Southern
District of New York, wrote in an email September eighth,
twenty nineteen, that she had secured an agreement from Valdera's
office to halt the state investigation into Zorro Ranch. The
name of the email's recipient is redacted. In essence, they
agreed to cease any investigation into sex trafficking and share
whatever they had gathered to date regarding sex trafficking activity
with our office. Roe Comy, who headed the criminal case
against Epstein. Comy also worked on the prosecution of Glenn Maxwell,
Epstein's co defendant, who was convicted in twenty twenty two
of sex trafficking and other crimes and sentenced to twenty
years in prison. Should have been two hundred and twenty years,
but here we are. We agreed that they were free
to proceed with whatever other investigations unrelated to sex trafficking
they may have concerning Epstein, and told them that at
the conclusion of our case, we would pass along any
information we may have gathered about state crimes that were
committed in their jurisdiction. She wrote, well, why didn't they
do that? Probably a good idea to subpoenacomy right. See
what she has to say. On September seventeenth, twenty nineteen,
about a month after Epstein's death, then Chief Deputy Attorney
General Clara Moran sent a letter to fe eral prosecutors
that included an attachment containing police reports, recorded witness interviews,
correspondence among state agencies, and documents related to Epstein's leasing
of state public lands. New Mexico canceled the lease by
an Epstein owned company of one thousand, two hundred and
forty three acres of state trust land adjacent to Zoro
Ranch that dated to his purchase of the ranch in
ninety three. Investigators suspected Epstein obtained the lease to announce
privacy at the ranch, Baldaris said. Moran, now a Second
Judicial District Court judge, confirmed last week that the Attorney
General's office was asked to halt its investigation, but declined
to discuss details. In July of twenty twenty, Baldera's office
sent a letter to federal prosecutors urging them to seize
Zoro Ranch to preserve criminal evidence such as files and
video recordings. The letter signed by Morin urged federal prosecutors
to use civil forfeitures, says to obtain the ranch. We
believe that this ranch was used by Epstein and others
to facilitate the commission and prolonged concealment of his trafficking
of children, such that seizure may be pursued in conjunction
with the pending criminal prosecution of Epstein's associates and co conspirators.
Morian wrote, But I thought there was none of that,
No co conspirators, no associates. He was a lone predator,
just a lone wolf. Epstein purchased or a ranch near
Stanley from the family of former Governor Bruce King in
nineteen ninety three and built the thirty three thousand, three
hundred and thirty nine square foot mansion with a landing
strip and other structures. Epstein's estate sold the ranch the
Texas real estate mogul Don Huffen's in twenty twenty three
for an undisclosed price. Huffen's reportedly has pledged to cooperate. Well,
isn't that nice? After all, the construction's done already after
the house has been knocked down. But sure, thank you.
But honestly, It's not even his fault. It's the fault
of the federal government and New Mexico for letting the
federal government dog walk them. Baldaras said that he offered
local law enforcement assistance serving warrants at the property. We
were never informed whether they obtained search warrants or searched
the property. He said, I was calling for them to
seize those assets in twenty twenty because I determined at
that point that there was enough information that potential criminal
acts have occurred there. He said, the assets should have
been seized. I continue to take that position today. Well,
I take that position too. And have you noticed that
every time there's something wrong here, it always bounces in
the favor of Jeffrey Epstein and his friends. There's never
a bounce that comes our way, right, But sure, I
guess it's all just coincidence and that Jeffrey Epstein just
had the luck of the Irish or could it be
that all of this was by design. All the information
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