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Speaker 1: What's up, everyone, and welcome to another episode of the

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Epstein Chronicles. One of the biggest travesties when it comes

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to Jeffrey Epstein and the non investigation that we saw

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for all those years was the fact that places like

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New Mexico decided to punt the ball to the federal government,

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which is crazy considering this happened in their estate and

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it was something that they should have been mindful of.

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They owed that to their citizens, right, they owed that

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to the people who were abused in New Mexico. But

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instead of opening that investigation down there in Mexico, they

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just decided to go with whatever the Feds had going on.

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And we know how that all ended up. So Jeffrey

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Epstein and his crimes in New Mexico have been basically

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wiped right off the table. And we all know that

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he was up to some wild ass shit down in

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New Mexico. And we'll probably never know the full scope,

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considering the government never even raided the house in New Mexico,

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so we have no idea what was even in that

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house as far as evidence goes. And now, after all

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these years, the state of New Mexico is talking about

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launching a commission to dive into what Jeffrey Epstein was

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up to in the state. And while I think it's

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a good idea, I think it's a little bit too late,

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And I don't think anything they're going to find now

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is going to be actionable, because that ship has already selled,

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and I don't think we're going to see any kind

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of actionable intelligence come from any sort of truth commission

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or commission in general that's being launched in New Mexico.

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And of course that was the whole point of pointing

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it to the Feds in the first place. Remember, the

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ideal was to try and get it all in the

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hands of the FEDS to make sure the cleanup mission

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went smooth. They couldn't have all these different municipalities and

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different jurisdictions looking into what happened, right, So they just

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folded it all into one federal case. And then, of

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course the federal government just shits on all of us

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and ends up giving them that non prosecution deal. So

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in this episode, we have an article from the Santa

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Fe New Mexican and it's going to talk a little

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bit more about this proposal that's being put forward by

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these lawmakers down in Santa Fe. This article was authored

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by Clara Bates. Headline New Mexico lawmakers proposed truth commission

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on epstein alleged sex abuse at his former Santa Fe

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County ranch. Two New Mexico lawmakers on Thursday outlined their

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proposal for a new truth commission to investigate what took

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place over decades at Jeffrey Epstein's massive Zoro ranch in

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southern Santa Fe County and the state's failures to hold

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Epstein and others accountable for any crimes. And it's all convenient. Huh.

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Bill Richardson's dead now, Jeffrey Epstein's gone. No one can

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really be held accountable. But all of a sudden people care,

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All of a sudden people in New Mexico want a

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truth commission. Huh. I mean better late than never, I guess,

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But come on, this should have been done years ago. Epstein,

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the convicted sex offender and financier who died in federal

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custody in twenty nineteen at the age of sixty six,

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had owned the seven thousand, five hundred and sixty acre

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property near Stanley, around forty miles south the Santa Fe

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since ninety three, after purchasing it from Governor Bruce King,

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and several women have alleged that they were sexually abused

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at the ranch, which featured a twenty six thousand, seven

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hundred square foot mansion and about a dozen other structures.

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And it's almost like its own little village or city,

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if you will. Now, obviously it's missing, you know, convenience

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stores and stuff like that, But I'm talking about the layout.

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When I was at Zorro Ranch, you can see right

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from the front gate the whole entire setup that he has,

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the old Western Town, et cetera. And this was the

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property remember that people like the Clintons would go to

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to a vacation. And of course the Clintons have denied that,

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denied the fact that they ever went down there. But

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I spoke to people who told me directly that they

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knew for a fact that the Clintons have been to

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Zoro Ranch. When I was down in New Mexico, I

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talked to numerous people who knew for a fact. So

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Bill Clinton can contin you to bullshit. He can continue

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to tell us whatever kind of narrative he wants, but

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the truth is out there for the people that are

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willing to listen. For the people that are willing to dig.

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But what unfolded at Zoro Ranch has not been thoroughly investigated.

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Democratic Reps. Andrea Romero of Santa Fe and Marianna Aneya

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of Albuquerque told lawmakers on their interim Legislative Courts, Corrections

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and Justice Committee, Well, that's a fact, and that's because

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you willfully didn't investigate. In New Mexico, just like New York,

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just like everywhere else, the states have a duty to

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the people, the citizens of the state and the people

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who have been wronged. But they've decided to shirk that

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duty and just pass the buck. And as far as

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I'm concerned, that is completely unacceptable. Now, if you want

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to run a parallel investigation along with the FEDS, cool,

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but closing an investigation, or not even an initiating one,

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that's unacceptable. The Truth Commission's purpose would include finding out

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what officials knew, how crimes were unreported or reported, and

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how the state can ensure that this essentially never happens again.

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Romero said, there's no complete public record of what occurred,

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all by design. By the way, that's all by design.

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If you're going to have any commission, you need to

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bring forward all of the people that were working in

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the local government at the time. Anybody involved in anything

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involving Jeffrey Epstein needs to be brought forward, unlike that

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oversight committee we see in Congress, where there's no Matthew Minchell,

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no Sloman, no Marie Villafauna. It's a joke, honestly, And

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if you're just going to do this for performance purposes,

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don't even bother. Don't waste anybody's time. So I hope

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they're willing to go the extra mile. I have my doubts,

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but I hope they're willing to. The pair plan to

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introduce the House resolution during the legislative session that begins

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January twentieth to create the Truth Commission, which would have

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the power to subpoena documents and testimony. They said the

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commission would start its work in April and be composed

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of two Democrats, two Republicans, and a staff of lawyers

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and investigators. There are actually decades of missed opportunities for justice,

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Anea said, justice for victims, but also justice for the

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people of New Mexico to know what was happening in

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their own backyard. That's really what it comes down to.

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The people of New Mexico have been screwed, absolutely treated

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like shit. When you elect these people, you expect them

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to do the right thing. I know they hardly ever do,

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but you expect them to do the right thing. Then

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you hear stuff like this and you're just left shaking

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your head. It was absurd then, and it's absurd now

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that there was no state run investigation into what Jeffrey

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Epstein was up to. Senator Anthony Ann Thomas from Sandia Park,

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whose district includes Zorro Ranch, said he is thankful for

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the proposal. Anything that we can do to clarity and

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transparency would be very much appreciated, he said. A Few

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legislators pressed the co sponsors on the timing and whether

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the proposal was politically motivated. I have some concerns over this,

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said Representative Stephanie Lord, of course, a Republican from Sandia Park.

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This is something I've been screaming about since day one,

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and I get a little angry, like why now? She added,

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are you going to look at everybody? Well? Yeah, everybody

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should be looked at. Isn't that the whole point? And

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if you're not going to look at everybody, don't even bother,

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don't waste the tax dollars and certainly don't waste anybody's time.

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Lord noted allegations against former Democratic Governor Bill Richardson, who

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died in twenty twenty three. The late Virginia Roberts alleged

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in a lawsuit that she had been forced to have

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sex with Richardson as a teen at the ranch. Richardson

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denied those allegations, saying the two had never met. It

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doesn't appear Richardson was ever. The pl csed in connection

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to the allegations by Roberts, who died by suicide earlier

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this year. Anaya said the commission would go wherever the

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evidence leads. People have come up to me and said,

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are you crazy. I believe the folks who will be

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potentially implicated in all of this are just as bipartisan

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as the Commission will be. Anaiya said. The reason to

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do it now. Romero added, we want to really close

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these legal loopholes and examine really closely the failures of

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oversight to protect future generations. Well, okay, that's a good idea,

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but is that truly the motivation? I hope so, because

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the survivors and the people of New Mexico and how

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all of us deserve better. The Truth Commission would start

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reporting after one year of investigation, and the estimated cost

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would be around two point five million, Romero said. The

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state Attorney's General in twenty twenty three announced Deutsche Bank

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had pledged nearly five million dollars to support anti human

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trafficking efforts in the state following an investigation into financial

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service comme companies roll in failing to identify the sexual

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abuse and trafficking of underage girls at Zoro Ranch. But

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nothing going on here, right, It's all a big hoax.

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The banks pay out all this money sharing hoaxes all

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the time because that's what they love to do, pay

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out money. Romero said that the Commission may be able

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to tap into that funding. The new Mexico Attorney General's

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Office launched an investigation of Zoro Ranch in twenty nineteen.

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The American Prospect last month reported most of the documents

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related to the investigation, released under a public records request

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were redacted. Chelsea Piterrevik, a spokesperson for the agency, which

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is now called the New Mexico Department of Justice, said

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it appears as a criminal investigation was closed before our

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administration took office. Yeah, that's true. They closed it because

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they didn't want the drama. They didn't want all of

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the shadow hanging over New Mexico. So instead, let's punt

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in federal and let's hope people focus on New York

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and Florida. And that's a damn shame, because I think

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that a lot more happened in New Mexico than we're

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being led to believe. Do you know how many exploitable

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young women are in New Mexico? Do you know how

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many people are missing in New Mexico? And you mean

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to tell me that Epstein wasn't up to his bullshit

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in New Mexico. Sorry, I don't buy that for a minute,

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not for one single minute. The investigation conducted under the

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prior administration does not seem to have uncovered any information

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beyond what was already identified in the broader class action lawsuit,

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which included victims from New Mexico. Like I said, victims

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from New Mexico that we have never heard about, never

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heard from. There's plenty of them. I can almost guarantee it,

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And as you know, I very rarely guarantee anything when

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it comes to Epstein. The Santa Fe County Sheriff's office

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told The New Mexican in twenty nineteen it had not

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conducted any investigation into alleged sex crimes Ranch. The state

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Department of Public Safety, in a response to records request

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that year, said it had no documents pertaining to Epstein. Yeah,

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that's true too. There was no investigation whatsoever. None, And

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that's one of the main reasons I went down to

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New Mexico when I did. Epstein's property was sold for

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an undisclosed price in twenty twenty three to San Rafael Ranch, LLC,

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a limited liability corporation created just a month before the purchase.

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The property at forty nine Zoro Ranch Road, was listed

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in July for twenty seven and a half million. A

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published report later said the sale price had dropped to

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eighteen million. Epstein had told Vanity Fair Zoro Ranch made

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his Manhattan townhouse look like a shack, the New Mexican

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noted in a previous report. And it is gigantic, no

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doubt about it. The property is beautiful, I mean absolutely beautiful. Now,

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the horror show that took place on the property, that's

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a different story. But the actual land itself rawling beautiful

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backdrop by mountains, absolutely gorgeous. The mansion was a three level,

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four bedroom structure with a large indoor pool. Near the

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entrance to the ranch was a small village with ten structures,

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including a seven bay heated garage, a firehouse, and the

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property's original Adobe residents, which had been expanded. The ranch

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also featured a three bedroom lodge and off the gride

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log cabin, as well as forty four hundred foot airstrip

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with an aircraft hangar and helipad. And that's how a

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lot of the important guests would get to Zoro Ranch.

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They'd fly into either a Santa Fe or Albuquerque and

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then they'd be transported via helicopter. Now, other people would

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be brought in with the suburbans, And I talked to

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a bunch of people who would see these suburbans coming

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in and out of Zoro Ranch. So if the folks

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knew it, you know that the authorities knew it as well,

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and they ignored it. And that's because Jeffrey Epstein was

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connected in the state of New Mexico, right Bill Richardson

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the Kings, there was no desire from the powers that

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be to go after Epstein in the state of New Mexico,

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and then you add to that that the age of

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consent was sixteen. It was a dream come true for

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this sick bastard. And the truth is the powers that

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be in New Mexico knew exactly what Epstein was up to.

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And the truth is nobody at the time cared. So

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let's hope that this Truth Commission is really looking for answers,

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and if they truly are looking for answers, let's hope

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they find them. And let's hope that they hold some

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people accountable. All right, folks, that's going to do it

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for this one. But yesterday we were talking a little

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bit about Maureen Komi and the accusations that were made

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by Nicholas Tartaglioni, and I was talking about the lawsuit

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that was filed by Clayton Howard against Diddy and Cassie Ventura,

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and I think it's highly relevant with the allegations that

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are being made by Tartaglioni. So I have that lawsuit

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and I'm going to upload the first part of that

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later on today so that you get a look at

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that yourself and see what he's saying about Maureen. Call

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me because I think that you know, the whole story matters, right,

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I don't really believe what Tartaglioni's saying. That way, we

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get a full HD view of the whole scenario, because

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when Maureene Comia was fired, I pointed out that Clayton

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Howard had made these allegations. So is it true? Is

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it not true? I don't know, but I'm going to

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post the first part of the lawsuit and then you

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folks can decide for yourselves. All of the information that

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goes with this episode can be found in the description box.

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What's up, everyone, and welcome to another episode of the

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Epstein Chronicles. In our previous episode, we were talking about

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the Truth Commission that is about to be established or

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might be established in New Mexico. Well, in this episode,

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we're going to take that conversation a little bit further,

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and I'm going to give you a little bit more

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of how I feel about everything that's went on down

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there and about what's going on currently now. New Mexico

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loves to call itself the land of Enchantment, but after

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digging into Jeffrey Epstein's activities there, it feels more like

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the land of denial. The magic in that slogan must

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have come from watching everyone in power make accountability disappear,

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Because somehow one of the most notorious sex traffickers in

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modern history built a compound in their desert, traffic victims

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through it for years, and nobody, not one law enforcement

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agency in the state seemed to notice. I mean, you'd

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think that a state that boast about independence, ruggedness, and

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community pride would have had the guts to launch its

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own state run investigation once Epstein's horrors came to light,

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but no, Instead of standing up for their citizens, they

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punted the whole damn thing to the FEDS, as if

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the same federal government that let Epstein operate for decades

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was suddenly going to develop a moral backbone. Yo, could

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we just be real please? The fact is that itn't

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want to deal with it. A predator like Epstein operating

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in their backyard was bad for tourism, bad for donors,

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bad for re election campaigns. So they did what every

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spinelist political class does. They buried it. They looked at

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those ranch gates, the private jet landings, the staff who

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whispered about guests that didn't look old enough to drive,

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and they decided that ignorance was safer than involvement. The

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attitude is clear. If it's not happening in Albuquerque, it's

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not happening at all. And then when the story broke

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wide open and the wall started closing in on Epstein,

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suddenly New Mexico had amnesia. We had no idea, they said,

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we didn't know the extent of his crimes. Please. This

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man was a registered as a sex offender, owned a

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massive property in Stanley, and had a pilot flying people

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in and out like it was a shuttle service. But

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the state government didn't think that warranted a knock on

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the door. They didn't think that just maybe maybe the

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guy with a reputation of a predator might be doing

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something illegal on a secluded compound. Sure, and I suppose

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UFOs built the ranch too. And now, in twenty twenty

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five years, after every warning sign, every media expose, every

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survivor account, they want to form a commission. The audacity

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is almost impressive. They're forming a special commission to figure

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how what went wrong. I'll save them taxpayer dollars. What

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went wrong is that nobody cared when it mattered. They're

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acting like they discovered a new mystery. But The answer

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has been in front of their faces the whole time.

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They didn't do their jobs. Period the end. Five years ago,

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I hopped on a plane, I got a rental car,

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and I drove those cracked desert highways and went to

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New Mexico myself to look into what happened at Zorro Ranch.

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Nobody asked me to. I did it because I couldn't

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stand watching another story of power, privilege and silence go unchallenged.

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And when I got there, it wasn't just the landscape

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that was dry, it was the law enforcement response. The

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silence was deafening. The attitude was why are you digging

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into this? That's old news, old news. Tell that to

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the victims who never got justice. I remember walking up

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near the property line, miles of emptiness in every direction,

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that eerie stillness that only the desert can give you.

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The locals I spoke with didn't trust anyone from the state.

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They told me about the helicopters, the planes, the deliveries.

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They whispered about the workers who were brought in and

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sent away, And you could tell from the look in

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their eyes they knew that something dark had happened there.

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But they also knew nobody in Santa Fe wanted the truth.

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I tried to contact state officials. I left messages, sent emails,

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even dropped by offices, but it was crickets. No one

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wanted to talk about Epstein. It was radioactive. And the

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funny part, the same people who ignored my calls back

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then are now pushing this shiny new commission. They want

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to investigate what went wrong. Oh really, you could ask

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me five years ago, I would have told you exactly

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what went wrong, starting with their own inaction. It's surreal

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watching them reinvent themselves as concern leaders now, like firefighters

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showing up to a pile of ashes asking where the

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flames went? And you know, it's almost worse than corruption indifference.

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New Mexico didn't even have the decency to cover their

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attracts with competence. They just pretended the whole thing wasn't

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their problem. They assumed the FEDS would handle it, and

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when the Feds dropped the ball, everyone just shrugged, like, well,

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what can you do? Here's the thought, do your damn job.

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The state has jurisdiction, they have every right to launch

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their own probe into what happened within their borders. Instead,

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they acted like it was happening in another galaxy. And

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I find it very comical how officials will brag about

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state sovereignty when it suits them, but when something like

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Epstein happens, they suddenly become helpless little children looking for

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federal Daddy to fix it. You can't have it both ways.

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Either you're capable of governing your state or you're just

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renting it out to whoever can afford the property taxes.

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And in Epstein's case, he paid cash. But let's not

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forget that this isn't just a New Mexico issue. New

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York did the same damn thing. The man owned a mansion,

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worked over seventy million in Manhattan traffic girls right under

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their noses, and somehow not one state investigation was ever

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a opened. Why Because, like New Mexico, New York politicians

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are allergic to accountability when it threatens their donors. They'll

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talk tough in front of cameras, but when the lights

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go off, the only thing they fight for is their

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own comfort. We've got a government full of actors reading

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scripts about justice and transparency while they quietly erase evidence,

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barrier reports and hope the public forgets. And you know

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what they're half right. Most people do forget, but not

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all of us. Some of us still remember that Epstein's

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Ranch wasn't just a property. It was a crime scene,

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and New Mexico left it to rot. When I was there,

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I remember driving down along dirt road near the ranch

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and passing by one of the gates, big metal, expensive,

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looking like something out of a movie. But beyond it

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there was this strange silence. The land felt almost haunted,

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not by ghosts, but by all the things that were ignored.

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You can almost feel the weight of the cover up

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pressing down on the horizon and state it just looked away.

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And that's what gets me. The state had the chance

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to do something meaningful, to take ownership of what happened,

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to say this happened on our soil, and we're not

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going to let it slide. But instead they chose to

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protect their image, their donors, their business friendly reputation, because

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apparently it's bad for tourism when the world finds out

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that your wide open desert was the setting for one

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of the darkest scandals in modern history. Now, with the

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public demanding answers again, they're back to their old tricks,

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forming commissions hiring consultants pretending to care. It's all smoke

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and mirrors. The same people who ignored it then are

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in charge of investigating it now, and you know what

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they'll say in the end, We've learned from our mistakes.

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We'll do better. We're committed to transparency. Those lines are

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written before the commission even meets. They'll slap together a

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final report of sanitized language and self congratulation, and not

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one person responsible for the original failure. We'll face consequences.

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That's how it always goes. If you want to know

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how deep the rock goes, look at how long it

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took for anyone in power to even acknowledge Epstein's presence

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in New Mexico. Years decades. Even they knew, the staff knew,

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law enforcement knew, politicians knew, but it was easier to

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act blind than to risk shaking the wrong tree. So

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now we've got states playing catch up with ghosts, New

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Mexico forming commissions, New York's given speeches, and the survivors

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are still waiting for someone, anyone, to tell the truth.

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And it's obscene, it's insulting, and it's the same old song.

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Power protects power, while the rest of us are left

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to sift through the wreckage, and for what it's worth,

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no commission, no press release, no self congratulatory reflection is

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going to fix the fact that when it mattered most,

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they ignored it. They ignored me, they ignored journalists, they

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ignored survivors. They made a choice, and that choice should

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haunt them far more than any name carved on Epstein's

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guest list, because the truth is, this isn't just about

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what they didn't know. It's about what they didn't want

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to know. And now that the world is asking again,

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they're putting on their best act, pretending to search for answers.

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They already buried the land of enchantment, all right, enchantment

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by its own apathy. So let's be honest. These commissions

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are nothing but a political deodorant for this tension. Neglect.

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It's what you do when the crime scene is old

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and the cameras are back on. You can almost hear

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the consultants pitching it in some boardroom. Will form a

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task force, make a few statements, maybe hire a retired

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judge or two. By next year, nobody will care and

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they're right. That's the game. Like I always tell you,

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stall long enough and outrage decays into apathy. That's how

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institution survives scandal, not by fixing it, but by outlasting it.

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And you ever notice how government accountability always shows up late,

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dressed nice and smelling of decay. It's never about justice,

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it's about timing. They wait until the bodies are colled,

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the evidence is scattered, and the outrage has lost its bite.

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Then they waltz in, pretending to mourn. They're not here

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to investigate Epstein's crimes. They're here to rehabilitate their own image.

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They're writing the obituary of their failure and calling it reform.

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And somewhere out there in the silence of that New

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Mexico desert, Epstein's ranch still stands empty, but not forgotten.

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The wind moves through it like an echo of everything

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the state refused to hear. The land is evidence not

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just of his crimes, but of every sheriff, prosecutor, and

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politician who didn't have the guts to confront them. That's

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the real crime scene, not just the rooms, not just

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the flights, but the silence that wrapped around it like insulation.

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It's pathetic how the same people who ran from this

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story now crawl back, pretending to lead it. They ignored

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the reporters, they ignored the survivors. Hell, they ignored anyone

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who tried to force them to care. But now they

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want credit for showing up when it's safe. That's what

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power does. When the heat dies down, they'll hoist their panels,

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sip their coffee, and tell each other what a tragedy

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it was. They'll shake their heads like they weren't part

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of the machine that let it happen. So no, New

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Mexico doesn't get redemption. Neither does New York. They don't

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get the hide behind commissions and findings. They don't get

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applause for finally showing up to a funeral they caused.

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The truth is simple. They failed their people, They felled

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the victims, They failed the public trust, and all the

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glossy reports in the world can't change that. The next

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time they talk about lessons learned, remember this. The only

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lesson they ever learn is how to survive the fallout.

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All of the information that goes with this episode can

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be found in the description box.