Former New Mexico AG says he was told to stand down in Epstein ranch probe

[Uncle Joe]

Former New Mexico Attorney General Hector Balderas first started looking into Epstein and the Zorro Ranch in 2019.

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The word “Zorro” appears nearly 14,000 times in files connected to Epstein released by the Department of Justice, but the land has never been searched by federal authorities, and unredacted files have not been turned over to the New Mexico Department of Justice for its ongoing investigation.

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Allegations of crimes committed at the property include rape, sexual assault of minors, forced births and eugenics, according to accounts from Epstein survivors, their diary entries, and from the millions of files released by the Department of Justice.

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Months before Epstein was arrested in 2019, Balderas says he was well into building a state case and had just returned from interviewing an Epstein survivor when he received a call from the Southern District of New York.

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“I'm convinced that those answers are not in the documents that have been released,” Balderas said. “But they're in the millions of documents that are currently being withheld.”

https://www.scrippsnews.com/us-news/crime/epstein-files/former-new-mexico-ag-says-he-was-told-to-stand-down-in-epstein-ranch-probe

[mopinko]

1. sdny needs to b blown up.

[ABC123Easy]

2. Wow

"I'm convinced that those answers are not in the documents that have been released,” Balderas said. “But they're in the millions of documents that are currently being withheld.”

If that's true then Bondi, Blanche, Patel, etc.....have ALL been lying under oath to Congress.

Let's hope the next Dem AG is willing to prosecute this.

[AverageOldGuy]

3. I AM NOT A NUT . . . but this has gone too far.

I am NOT a wackjob conspiracy theorist —- but —- Trump and Putin; Epstein with a huge fortune that no one knows where it came from; one Senator is digging into Epstein financial records and finding hundreds of millions in transactions to/from Europe; every investigation into anything about Epstein has been squelched by various authorities; Trump will pardon Maxwell in exchange for her silence after which she will commit suicide; Epstein’s “suicide”; and on and on and on.


This thing goes deep, deep, deep and we likely will never hear anything close to the full story.

[Ponietz]

7. Everything is tainted by these crimes

The only way out for Democrats, and for the Nation, is though it. I’ve said here for 8 years that confrontation was inevitable and best ASAP. Former AG Garland is on my all-time shit list.

[Botany]

9. It is part of a multi generational and international criminal operation and it is the largest one in history.

https://thiswillhold.substack.com/p/merrick-garland-and-the-octopus

You can see the email that Jeffery Epstein sent to Peter Thiel after the 2016 election.

[progressoid]

4. 2019...2019...checking notes...who was president in 2019?

[Warpy]

5. Who told him to stand down? How was it communicated?

These are two questions that were never asked, let alone answered, by any state AG who claims he buried an investigation because some shadowy entity told him to.

[Ponietz]

6. Reading the article is a definite plus when one has questions

Maureen Comey told AG Balderas to stand down in a telephone call.

It’s good to be suspicious, but casting baseless aspersions against Balderas is irresponsible.

[Warpy]

11. Alas, my ability to read pages of text is sorely impaired

so thank you for filling in that particular blank.

Aw, lookee, it's James Comey's daughter.

What little I can manage to read makes her look pretty shady. In 2019 she was 30, so there is likely some food chain that needs to be nibbled through, no way would someone that age initiate such a phone call on her own.

[Ponietz]

12. Warpy, the more I think about Balderas' statement the more questions I have

The whole world knew of James Comey’s humiliation and downfall. The whole world knew of the alleged corruption in SDNY. Virtually everyone knew of the sweetheart deal Epstein got in Florida. The crimes alleged to have occurred in NM included kidnapping, rape, and murder.

Why, then, would Balderas take Comey’s word for it? Wouldn’t a circumspect attorney get such a representation in writing? Especially important when dealing with ANY Comeys!

His statement just raises more questions.

[Warpy]

13. Right, I think we all do

but 2019 was a very different year, Fatso was in his first term and thought he'd coast into a second one on the backs of his loyal brownshirts, who were already escalating their violence

I imagine a reference to national security, the main copout for non religious scoundrels, combined with a veiled threat against his family did the trick.

[Ponietz]

14. But Maureen Comey was always on the fascists' shitlist

She’s a pretty convenient scapegoat — no pressure from the perps on the basis of this statement.
I spent a career practicing criminal law and, if I learned one thing, it’s to get it in writing.
There are, still, too many questions concerning Epstein’s association with the Kings and Bill Richardson to take Balderas’ statement at face value.

[Joinfortmill]

8. At some point all the horrors will be revealed.

[Cherokee100]

10. Can we say

Can we say 'The Fourth Reich' ? I think we can.