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🚨 BREAKING: Former New Mexico AG Hector Balderas reveals federal prosecutors asked his office to HALT its investigation into sex trafficking at Epstein's Zorro Ranch in 2019 promising to share information in return.
They never did.
"Cooperation was a one-way relationship."
New Mexico handed over police reports, witness interviews & investigative records to the Southern District of New York. In return? Silence.
Balderas urged feds to SEIZE Zorro Ranch in 2020 to preserve criminal evidence files, video recordings. No response.
None of NM's investigative records appear among the 3M+ pages DOJ released last month.
The investigation was "gutted" just weeks before Epstein died in custody.
Now NM AG Raúl Torrez is reopening the probe and a legislative truth-finding commission with subpoena power has been formed.
The investigation should have been BROADENED, not narrowed.
Who was being protected?
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Ritabert
(2,452 posts)orangecrush
(30,339 posts)Ritabert
(2,452 posts)the nelm
(271 posts)Joinfortmill
(21,192 posts)sinkingfeeling
(57,839 posts)maspaha
(745 posts)BattleRow
(2,454 posts)radical noodle
(10,598 posts)whose father hired Epstein at the Dalton school to teach the children of the wealthy when Epstein didn't have the credentials to do so. It was the place where Epstein first acquired rich mentors.
OAITW r.2.0
(32,180 posts)Just like Trump and Putin and Netanya. People. aspiring to power, gravitate to this political ideal: only my idea makes sense.
OrangeJoe
(559 posts)Look I loath Trump and his gang of grifting racist criminals. But god damn it why didn't the Biden Department of Justice react to the information that was available to them? Epstein was (supposedly) dead, his crimes were well known, the FBI had tons of information on him i.e. the files that are trickling out now, yet no one did a bloody thing about it!
I don't buy the "Maxwell was working the appeals process" because there were millions of documents that had nothing to do with her case. Besides a convicted defendant cannot introduce new evidence in an appeal so releasing the files wouldn't have affected her appeal at all.
I'd really like to see an actual reason why Garland sat on this.
???
intheflow
(30,187 posts)make that connection. It wasnt Obama or Biden - and thats a big tell.
Whip-poor-will
(262 posts)Since trumps judge cannon nullified the special council report , therefore the usefulness of that office,on trump the next step has to be a watergate style congressional hearing about the rape ring rapists, doctors who treated the girls, the officials stopping investigations , who's hiding and breaking the law on releasing the files and dead little girls the whole shooting match .
This war distraction is enough for me let the slime rip .
Lifeafter70
(988 posts)Housekeepers, gardeners ect
The help hears e everything.
surfered
(13,510 posts)highplainsdem
(62,227 posts)bluestarone
(22,199 posts)We can never get a break!!
MLWR
(1,028 posts)Retrograde
(11,423 posts)the son of Epstein's first major employer, the school principal who hired him without any academic qualifications? Small world, isn't it.
groundloop
(13,862 posts)There has been quite a series of 'coincidences' happen to keep the truth hidden.
dlk
(13,254 posts)Didn't have a degree. There is so much more to all of this. We may never know the full scope.
ShazzieB
(22,616 posts)He replaced Sessions in Fenruary 2019 and stayed until almost to the end of Trump's first term. And yes, Barr's father was headmaster of the school where Epstein taught in the 1970s. Barr also previously worked at a law firm that once represented Epstein. Calls were made for him to recuse himself from the Epstein case due to possible conflicts of interest, but he ignored them.
MagickMuffin
(18,322 posts)Plus Don Barr wrote the bible for Epsteins escapades of their depraved terrorism.
radical noodle
(10,598 posts)Bill Barr, son of Donald Barr. It keeps circling back to the Barrs.
Clouds Passing
(7,947 posts)malaise
(296,215 posts)Good grief
canetoad
(20,769 posts)From Twit. Bold is mine.
@sayerjigmi
🚨 BREAKING: Former New Mexico AG Hector Balderas reveals federal prosecutors asked his office to HALT its investigation into sex trafficking at Epstein's Zorro Ranch in 2019 promising to share information in return.
They never did.
"Cooperation was a one-way relationship."
New Mexico handed over police reports, witness interviews & investigative records to the Southern District of New York. In return? Silence.
Balderas urged feds to SEIZE Zorro Ranch in 2020 to preserve criminal evidence files, video recordings. No response.
None of NM's investigative records appear among the 3M+ pages DOJ released last month.
The investigation was "gutted" just weeks before Epstein died in custody.
Now NM AG Raúl Torrez is reopening the probe and a legislative truth-finding commission with subpoena power has been formed.
The investigation should have been BROADENED, not narrowed.
Who was being protected?
Evolve Dammit
(21,779 posts)Botany
(77,353 posts)Jeffrey Epstein wasn't just a sex trafficker. He was a switchboard routing government secrets, Wall Street intelligence, and political power.
The Trump, Epstein, Vlad, Musk, and Bibi child sex trafficking network was part of the largest
criminal syndicate in history. Trump being President is an example of it.
Evolve Dammit
(21,779 posts)there was a post here telling how the county had stopped any work or excavation on the place.
MagickMuffin
(18,322 posts)His son Russell works for the current administration.
Don Huffines is a Nazi, white christian nationalist. And hes extremely creepy looking.
intheflow
(30,187 posts)Not selling any time soon, actively working to block investigations.
Trueblue Texan
(4,472 posts)bluestarone
(22,199 posts)Sick to my stomach. Why the wait? WTF?
Botany
(77,353 posts)but then again Trump was caught with boxes of Americas top secrets which he was selling
and or giving to the Russians and nothing happened to him.
Remember about Hillarys emails? Now, there was a crime.
bluestarone
(22,199 posts)2019!! Just cannot believe this shit. Plus now a MAGA bought the property. YUCK!!!
Gum Logger
(398 posts)Repukes are all about projection
patphil
(9,083 posts)My guess is that the Russians ran it, and Epstein acted as a coordinator and facilitator. The more I see, the more I realize that Trump had a role, but certainly wasn't running the show.
His job was to get elected with the help of Russia and a whole bunch of oligarch wanna bees, and then gut the US government from within so they couldn't take any meaningful action against them. The more I see, the more it looks like Merrick Garland was blocked from doing his job...perhaps blackmailed into standing down.
William Barr was in the same boat with Garland.
As it looks now, Trump's cabinet probably has several members of this international cabal in it, and several others who are either willing to work for them, or are badly compromised. I also think a lot of the republicans in Congress have been compromised and aren't willing to act for fear of having things come out that would ruin them.
Our challenge is to stand and deliver. We never had a bigger choice in our lives. What happens in the next 3 years will determine, not just the fate of the US, but the fate of the whole free world.
If the US falls, the rest of the world will follow.
bluestarone
(22,199 posts)Suicide MY ASS!!
Trueblue Texan
(4,472 posts)...trying to make it look like a suicide? No one bothered making plausible explanations for all the "coincidences" that had to occur for his "suicide". They knew it wouldn't really matter. There would be no consequences. The photo of Epstein showed a distinct mark at the base of his neck in the front, just above the front triangle of the neck, not higher up where a noose would be unless he hung himself in an upset down position. Also supposedly he hung himself with a bed sheet, yet the mark was quite thin as though it was made with a wire.
No one tried to explain these obvious discrepancies to the "official" story and my guess is because they really didn't care what people thought. They knew they would not be held accountable.
MadameButterfly
(4,043 posts)the only thing for sure is we have to get to the bottom of it.
Garland did appoint Jack Smith which someone really complicit just wouldn't do. Barr on the other hand lied about the Mueller report and seems to have been willing to close down any investigations Trump didn't like. All we have on Garland is he was slow. I'd need more evidence to believe he actively avoided doing his job.
MagickMuffin
(18,322 posts)His family are no angels. They are perverted people.
SharonAnn
(14,175 posts)czarjak
(13,643 posts)Not totally unlike!
czarjak
(13,643 posts)Sexual Abusers have a lot in common when it comes to abodes.
spanone
(141,650 posts)Justice
(7,261 posts)Shocking.
Bill Barr needs to come back before the Committee. I want to read the transcript of his original testimony.
SamuelTheThird
(1,169 posts)dalton99a
(94,221 posts)usonian
(25,395 posts)
HoosierDebbie
(450 posts)I don't understand how Epstein could have had time to do all of this criming! Many of the involved people must have done their own part to help...as Maxwell did. No wonder there are millions of more un-released documents.
radical noodle
(10,598 posts)but he didn't do it all. There were lots of fingers in that criminal pie.
Blue Owl
(59,132 posts)Wednesdays
(22,628 posts)I'll give you three guesses. And the first two don't count.