Speaker 1: What's up, everyone, and welcome to another episode of the
Epstein Chronicles. One of the biggest travesties when it comes
to Jeffrey Epstein and the non investigation that we saw
for all those years was the fact that places like
New Mexico decided to punt the ball to the federal government,
which is crazy considering this happened in their estate and
it was something that they should have been mindful of.
They owed that to their citizens, right, they owed that
to the people who were abused in New Mexico. But
instead of opening that investigation down there in Mexico, they
just decided to go with whatever the Feds had going on.
And we know how that all ended up. So Jeffrey
Epstein and his crimes in New Mexico have been basically
wiped right off the table. And we all know that
he was up to some wild ass shit down in
New Mexico. And we'll probably never know the full scope,
considering the government never even raided the house in New Mexico,
so we have no idea what was even in that
house as far as evidence goes. And now, after all
these years, the state of New Mexico is talking about
launching a commission to dive into what Jeffrey Epstein was
up to in the state. And while I think it's
a good idea, I think it's a little bit too late,
And I don't think anything they're going to find now
is going to be actionable, because that ship has already selled,
and I don't think we're going to see any kind
of actionable intelligence come from any sort of truth commission
or commission in general that's being launched in New Mexico.
And of course that was the whole point of pointing
it to the Feds in the first place. Remember, the
ideal was to try and get it all in the
hands of the FEDS to make sure the cleanup mission
went smooth. They couldn't have all these different municipalities and
different jurisdictions looking into what happened, right, So they just
folded it all into one federal case. And then, of
course the federal government just shits on all of us
and ends up giving them that non prosecution deal. So
in this episode, we have an article from the Santa
Fe New Mexican and it's going to talk a little
bit more about this proposal that's being put forward by
these lawmakers down in Santa Fe. This article was authored
by Clara Bates. Headline New Mexico lawmakers proposed truth commission
on epstein alleged sex abuse at his former Santa Fe
County ranch. Two New Mexico lawmakers on Thursday outlined their
proposal for a new truth commission to investigate what took
place over decades at Jeffrey Epstein's massive Zoro ranch in
southern Santa Fe County and the state's failures to hold
Epstein and others accountable for any crimes. And it's all convenient. Huh.
Bill Richardson's dead now, Jeffrey Epstein's gone. No one can
really be held accountable. But all of a sudden people care,
All of a sudden people in New Mexico want a
truth commission. Huh. I mean better late than never, I guess,
But come on, this should have been done years ago. Epstein,
the convicted sex offender and financier who died in federal
custody in twenty nineteen at the age of sixty six,
had owned the seven thousand, five hundred and sixty acre
property near Stanley, around forty miles south the Santa Fe
since ninety three, after purchasing it from Governor Bruce King,
and several women have alleged that they were sexually abused
at the ranch, which featured a twenty six thousand, seven
hundred square foot mansion and about a dozen other structures.
And it's almost like its own little village or city,
if you will. Now, obviously it's missing, you know, convenience
stores and stuff like that, But I'm talking about the layout.
When I was at Zorro Ranch, you can see right
from the front gate the whole entire setup that he has,
the old Western Town, et cetera. And this was the
property remember that people like the Clintons would go to
to a vacation. And of course the Clintons have denied that,
denied the fact that they ever went down there. But
I spoke to people who told me directly that they
knew for a fact that the Clintons have been to
Zoro Ranch. When I was down in New Mexico, I
talked to numerous people who knew for a fact. So
Bill Clinton can contin you to bullshit. He can continue
to tell us whatever kind of narrative he wants, but
the truth is out there for the people that are
willing to listen. For the people that are willing to dig.
But what unfolded at Zoro Ranch has not been thoroughly investigated.
Democratic Reps. Andrea Romero of Santa Fe and Marianna Aneya
of Albuquerque told lawmakers on their interim Legislative Courts, Corrections
and Justice Committee, Well, that's a fact, and that's because
you willfully didn't investigate. In New Mexico, just like New York,
just like everywhere else, the states have a duty to
the people, the citizens of the state and the people
who have been wronged. But they've decided to shirk that
duty and just pass the buck. And as far as
I'm concerned, that is completely unacceptable. Now, if you want
to run a parallel investigation along with the FEDS, cool,
but closing an investigation, or not even an initiating one,
that's unacceptable. The Truth Commission's purpose would include finding out
what officials knew, how crimes were unreported or reported, and
how the state can ensure that this essentially never happens again.
Romero said, there's no complete public record of what occurred,
all by design. By the way, that's all by design.
If you're going to have any commission, you need to
bring forward all of the people that were working in
the local government at the time. Anybody involved in anything
involving Jeffrey Epstein needs to be brought forward, unlike that
oversight committee we see in Congress, where there's no Matthew Minchell,
no Sloman, no Marie Villafauna. It's a joke, honestly, And
if you're just going to do this for performance purposes,
don't even bother. Don't waste anybody's time. So I hope
they're willing to go the extra mile. I have my doubts,
but I hope they're willing to. The pair plan to
introduce the House resolution during the legislative session that begins
January twentieth to create the Truth Commission, which would have
the power to subpoena documents and testimony. They said the
commission would start its work in April and be composed
of two Democrats, two Republicans, and a staff of lawyers
and investigators. There are actually decades of missed opportunities for justice,
Anea said, justice for victims, but also justice for the
people of New Mexico to know what was happening in
their own backyard. That's really what it comes down to.
The people of New Mexico have been screwed, absolutely treated
like shit. When you elect these people, you expect them
to do the right thing. I know they hardly ever do,
but you expect them to do the right thing. Then
you hear stuff like this and you're just left shaking
your head. It was absurd then, and it's absurd now
that there was no state run investigation into what Jeffrey
Epstein was up to. Senator Anthony Ann Thomas from Sandia Park,
whose district includes Zorro Ranch, said he is thankful for
the proposal. Anything that we can do to clarity and
transparency would be very much appreciated, he said. A Few
legislators pressed the co sponsors on the timing and whether
the proposal was politically motivated. I have some concerns over this,
said Representative Stephanie Lord, of course, a Republican from Sandia Park.
This is something I've been screaming about since day one,
and I get a little angry, like why now? She added,
are you going to look at everybody? Well? Yeah, everybody
should be looked at. Isn't that the whole point? And
if you're not going to look at everybody, don't even bother,
don't waste the tax dollars and certainly don't waste anybody's time.
Lord noted allegations against former Democratic Governor Bill Richardson, who
died in twenty twenty three. The late Virginia Roberts alleged
in a lawsuit that she had been forced to have
sex with Richardson as a teen at the ranch. Richardson
denied those allegations, saying the two had never met. It
doesn't appear Richardson was ever. The pl csed in connection
to the allegations by Roberts, who died by suicide earlier
this year. Anaya said the commission would go wherever the
evidence leads. People have come up to me and said,
are you crazy. I believe the folks who will be
potentially implicated in all of this are just as bipartisan
as the Commission will be. Anaiya said. The reason to
do it now. Romero added, we want to really close
these legal loopholes and examine really closely the failures of
oversight to protect future generations. Well, okay, that's a good idea,
but is that truly the motivation? I hope so, because
the survivors and the people of New Mexico and how
all of us deserve better. The Truth Commission would start
reporting after one year of investigation, and the estimated cost
would be around two point five million, Romero said. The
state Attorney's General in twenty twenty three announced Deutsche Bank
had pledged nearly five million dollars to support anti human
trafficking efforts in the state following an investigation into financial
service comme companies roll in failing to identify the sexual
abuse and trafficking of underage girls at Zoro Ranch. But
nothing going on here, right, It's all a big hoax.
The banks pay out all this money sharing hoaxes all
the time because that's what they love to do, pay
out money. Romero said that the Commission may be able
to tap into that funding. The new Mexico Attorney General's
Office launched an investigation of Zoro Ranch in twenty nineteen.
The American Prospect last month reported most of the documents
related to the investigation, released under a public records request
were redacted. Chelsea Piterrevik, a spokesperson for the agency, which
is now called the New Mexico Department of Justice, said
it appears as a criminal investigation was closed before our
administration took office. Yeah, that's true. They closed it because
they didn't want the drama. They didn't want all of
the shadow hanging over New Mexico. So instead, let's punt
in federal and let's hope people focus on New York
and Florida. And that's a damn shame, because I think
that a lot more happened in New Mexico than we're
being led to believe. Do you know how many exploitable
young women are in New Mexico? Do you know how
many people are missing in New Mexico? And you mean
to tell me that Epstein wasn't up to his bullshit
in New Mexico. Sorry, I don't buy that for a minute,
not for one single minute. The investigation conducted under the
prior administration does not seem to have uncovered any information
beyond what was already identified in the broader class action lawsuit,
which included victims from New Mexico. Like I said, victims
from New Mexico that we have never heard about, never
heard from. There's plenty of them. I can almost guarantee it,
And as you know, I very rarely guarantee anything when
it comes to Epstein. The Santa Fe County Sheriff's office
told The New Mexican in twenty nineteen it had not
conducted any investigation into alleged sex crimes Ranch. The state
Department of Public Safety, in a response to records request
that year, said it had no documents pertaining to Epstein. Yeah,
that's true too. There was no investigation whatsoever. None, And
that's one of the main reasons I went down to
New Mexico when I did. Epstein's property was sold for
an undisclosed price in twenty twenty three to San Rafael Ranch, LLC,
a limited liability corporation created just a month before the purchase.
The property at forty nine Zoro Ranch Road, was listed
in July for twenty seven and a half million. A
published report later said the sale price had dropped to
eighteen million. Epstein had told Vanity Fair Zoro Ranch made
his Manhattan townhouse look like a shack, the New Mexican
noted in a previous report. And it is gigantic, no
doubt about it. The property is beautiful, I mean absolutely beautiful. Now,
the horror show that took place on the property, that's
a different story. But the actual land itself rawling beautiful
backdrop by mountains, absolutely gorgeous. The mansion was a three level,
four bedroom structure with a large indoor pool. Near the
entrance to the ranch was a small village with ten structures,
including a seven bay heated garage, a firehouse, and the
property's original Adobe residents, which had been expanded. The ranch
also featured a three bedroom lodge and off the gride
log cabin, as well as forty four hundred foot airstrip
with an aircraft hangar and helipad. And that's how a
lot of the important guests would get to Zoro Ranch.
They'd fly into either a Santa Fe or Albuquerque and
then they'd be transported via helicopter. Now, other people would
be brought in with the suburbans, And I talked to
a bunch of people who would see these suburbans coming
in and out of Zoro Ranch. So if the folks
knew it, you know that the authorities knew it as well,
and they ignored it. And that's because Jeffrey Epstein was
connected in the state of New Mexico, right Bill Richardson
the Kings, there was no desire from the powers that
be to go after Epstein in the state of New Mexico,
and then you add to that that the age of
consent was sixteen. It was a dream come true for
this sick bastard. And the truth is the powers that
be in New Mexico knew exactly what Epstein was up to.
And the truth is nobody at the time cared. So
let's hope that this Truth Commission is really looking for answers,
and if they truly are looking for answers, let's hope
they find them. And let's hope that they hold some
people accountable. All right, folks, that's going to do it
for this one. But yesterday we were talking a little
bit about Maureen Komi and the accusations that were made
by Nicholas Tartaglioni, and I was talking about the lawsuit
that was filed by Clayton Howard against Diddy and Cassie Ventura,
and I think it's highly relevant with the allegations that
are being made by Tartaglioni. So I have that lawsuit
and I'm going to upload the first part of that
later on today so that you get a look at
that yourself and see what he's saying about Maureen. Call
me because I think that you know, the whole story matters, right,
I don't really believe what Tartaglioni's saying. That way, we
get a full HD view of the whole scenario, because
when Maureene Comia was fired, I pointed out that Clayton
Howard had made these allegations. So is it true? Is
it not true? I don't know, but I'm going to
post the first part of the lawsuit and then you
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What's up, everyone, and welcome to another episode of the
Epstein Chronicles. In our previous episode, we were talking about
the Truth Commission that is about to be established or
might be established in New Mexico. Well, in this episode,
we're going to take that conversation a little bit further,
and I'm going to give you a little bit more
of how I feel about everything that's went on down
there and about what's going on currently now. New Mexico
loves to call itself the land of Enchantment, but after
digging into Jeffrey Epstein's activities there, it feels more like
the land of denial. The magic in that slogan must
have come from watching everyone in power make accountability disappear,
Because somehow one of the most notorious sex traffickers in
modern history built a compound in their desert, traffic victims
through it for years, and nobody, not one law enforcement
agency in the state seemed to notice. I mean, you'd
think that a state that boast about independence, ruggedness, and
community pride would have had the guts to launch its
own state run investigation once Epstein's horrors came to light,
but no, Instead of standing up for their citizens, they
punted the whole damn thing to the FEDS, as if
the same federal government that let Epstein operate for decades
was suddenly going to develop a moral backbone. Yo, could
we just be real please? The fact is that itn't
want to deal with it. A predator like Epstein operating
in their backyard was bad for tourism, bad for donors,
bad for re election campaigns. So they did what every
spinelist political class does. They buried it. They looked at
those ranch gates, the private jet landings, the staff who
whispered about guests that didn't look old enough to drive,
and they decided that ignorance was safer than involvement. The
attitude is clear. If it's not happening in Albuquerque, it's
not happening at all. And then when the story broke
wide open and the wall started closing in on Epstein,
suddenly New Mexico had amnesia. We had no idea, they said,
we didn't know the extent of his crimes. Please. This
man was a registered as a sex offender, owned a
massive property in Stanley, and had a pilot flying people
in and out like it was a shuttle service. But
the state government didn't think that warranted a knock on
the door. They didn't think that just maybe maybe the
guy with a reputation of a predator might be doing
something illegal on a secluded compound. Sure, and I suppose
UFOs built the ranch too. And now, in twenty twenty
five years, after every warning sign, every media expose, every
survivor account, they want to form a commission. The audacity
is almost impressive. They're forming a special commission to figure
how what went wrong. I'll save them taxpayer dollars. What
went wrong is that nobody cared when it mattered. They're
acting like they discovered a new mystery. But The answer
has been in front of their faces the whole time.
They didn't do their jobs. Period the end. Five years ago,
I hopped on a plane, I got a rental car,
and I drove those cracked desert highways and went to
New Mexico myself to look into what happened at Zorro Ranch.
Nobody asked me to. I did it because I couldn't
stand watching another story of power, privilege and silence go unchallenged.
And when I got there, it wasn't just the landscape
that was dry, it was the law enforcement response. The
silence was deafening. The attitude was why are you digging
into this? That's old news, old news. Tell that to
the victims who never got justice. I remember walking up
near the property line, miles of emptiness in every direction,
that eerie stillness that only the desert can give you.
The locals I spoke with didn't trust anyone from the state.
They told me about the helicopters, the planes, the deliveries.
They whispered about the workers who were brought in and
sent away, And you could tell from the look in
their eyes they knew that something dark had happened there.
But they also knew nobody in Santa Fe wanted the truth.
I tried to contact state officials. I left messages, sent emails,
even dropped by offices, but it was crickets. No one
wanted to talk about Epstein. It was radioactive. And the
funny part, the same people who ignored my calls back
then are now pushing this shiny new commission. They want
to investigate what went wrong. Oh really, you could ask
me five years ago, I would have told you exactly
what went wrong, starting with their own inaction. It's surreal
watching them reinvent themselves as concern leaders now, like firefighters
showing up to a pile of ashes asking where the
flames went? And you know, it's almost worse than corruption indifference.
New Mexico didn't even have the decency to cover their
attracts with competence. They just pretended the whole thing wasn't
their problem. They assumed the FEDS would handle it, and
when the Feds dropped the ball, everyone just shrugged, like, well,
what can you do? Here's the thought, do your damn job.
The state has jurisdiction, they have every right to launch
their own probe into what happened within their borders. Instead,
they acted like it was happening in another galaxy. And
I find it very comical how officials will brag about
state sovereignty when it suits them, but when something like
Epstein happens, they suddenly become helpless little children looking for
federal Daddy to fix it. You can't have it both ways.
Either you're capable of governing your state or you're just
renting it out to whoever can afford the property taxes.
And in Epstein's case, he paid cash. But let's not
forget that this isn't just a New Mexico issue. New
York did the same damn thing. The man owned a mansion,
worked over seventy million in Manhattan traffic girls right under
their noses, and somehow not one state investigation was ever
a opened. Why Because, like New Mexico, New York politicians
are allergic to accountability when it threatens their donors. They'll
talk tough in front of cameras, but when the lights
go off, the only thing they fight for is their
own comfort. We've got a government full of actors reading
scripts about justice and transparency while they quietly erase evidence,
barrier reports and hope the public forgets. And you know
what they're half right. Most people do forget, but not
all of us. Some of us still remember that Epstein's
Ranch wasn't just a property. It was a crime scene,
and New Mexico left it to rot. When I was there,
I remember driving down along dirt road near the ranch
and passing by one of the gates, big metal, expensive,
looking like something out of a movie. But beyond it
there was this strange silence. The land felt almost haunted,
not by ghosts, but by all the things that were ignored.
You can almost feel the weight of the cover up
pressing down on the horizon and state it just looked away.
And that's what gets me. The state had the chance
to do something meaningful, to take ownership of what happened,
to say this happened on our soil, and we're not
going to let it slide. But instead they chose to
protect their image, their donors, their business friendly reputation, because
apparently it's bad for tourism when the world finds out
that your wide open desert was the setting for one
of the darkest scandals in modern history. Now, with the
public demanding answers again, they're back to their old tricks,
forming commissions hiring consultants pretending to care. It's all smoke
and mirrors. The same people who ignored it then are
in charge of investigating it now, and you know what
they'll say in the end, We've learned from our mistakes.
We'll do better. We're committed to transparency. Those lines are
written before the commission even meets. They'll slap together a
final report of sanitized language and self congratulation, and not
one person responsible for the original failure. We'll face consequences.
That's how it always goes. If you want to know
how deep the rock goes, look at how long it
took for anyone in power to even acknowledge Epstein's presence
in New Mexico. Years decades. Even they knew, the staff knew,
law enforcement knew, politicians knew, but it was easier to
act blind than to risk shaking the wrong tree. So
now we've got states playing catch up with ghosts, New
Mexico forming commissions, New York's given speeches, and the survivors
are still waiting for someone, anyone, to tell the truth.
And it's obscene, it's insulting, and it's the same old song.
Power protects power, while the rest of us are left
to sift through the wreckage, and for what it's worth,
no commission, no press release, no self congratulatory reflection is
going to fix the fact that when it mattered most,
they ignored it. They ignored me, they ignored journalists, they
ignored survivors. They made a choice, and that choice should
haunt them far more than any name carved on Epstein's
guest list, because the truth is, this isn't just about
what they didn't know. It's about what they didn't want
to know. And now that the world is asking again,
they're putting on their best act, pretending to search for answers.
They already buried the land of enchantment, all right, enchantment
by its own apathy. So let's be honest. These commissions
are nothing but a political deodorant for this tension. Neglect.
It's what you do when the crime scene is old
and the cameras are back on. You can almost hear
the consultants pitching it in some boardroom. Will form a
task force, make a few statements, maybe hire a retired
judge or two. By next year, nobody will care and
they're right. That's the game. Like I always tell you,
stall long enough and outrage decays into apathy. That's how
institution survives scandal, not by fixing it, but by outlasting it.
And you ever notice how government accountability always shows up late,
dressed nice and smelling of decay. It's never about justice,
it's about timing. They wait until the bodies are colled,
the evidence is scattered, and the outrage has lost its bite.
Then they waltz in, pretending to mourn. They're not here
to investigate Epstein's crimes. They're here to rehabilitate their own image.
They're writing the obituary of their failure and calling it reform.
And somewhere out there in the silence of that New
Mexico desert, Epstein's ranch still stands empty, but not forgotten.
The wind moves through it like an echo of everything
the state refused to hear. The land is evidence not
just of his crimes, but of every sheriff, prosecutor, and
politician who didn't have the guts to confront them. That's
the real crime scene, not just the rooms, not just
the flights, but the silence that wrapped around it like insulation.
It's pathetic how the same people who ran from this
story now crawl back, pretending to lead it. They ignored
the reporters, they ignored the survivors. Hell, they ignored anyone
who tried to force them to care. But now they
want credit for showing up when it's safe. That's what
power does. When the heat dies down, they'll hoist their panels,
sip their coffee, and tell each other what a tragedy
it was. They'll shake their heads like they weren't part
of the machine that let it happen. So no, New
Mexico doesn't get redemption. Neither does New York. They don't
get the hide behind commissions and findings. They don't get
applause for finally showing up to a funeral they caused.
The truth is simple. They failed their people, They felled
the victims, They failed the public trust, and all the
glossy reports in the world can't change that. The next
time they talk about lessons learned, remember this. The only
lesson they ever learn is how to survive the fallout.
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