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(The Center Square) – New Mexico lawmakers are moving at lightning speed to bring justice to individuals who say they were trafficked as children and repeatedly raped at a ranch owned by convicted felon Jeffrey Epstein.
The New Mexico Department of Justice has reopened a criminal investigation into the Epstein ranch now owned by Texas Republican Don Huffines, who secretly purchased the property in 2023.
New Mexico Attorney General Raul Torrez said he ordered his office to reopen an investigation into allegations of illegal activity at the ranch. The state’s “prior investigation was closed in 2019 at the request of the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York, revelations outlined in the previously sealed FBI files warrant further examination.”
Under the first Trump administration, U.S. Attorney Maureen Comey instructed former New Mexico AG Hector Balderas to provide her office with their sex trafficking related materials and stop investigating, The Center Square Read Entire Article
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