← All storiesGeneralDeveloping story DoJ appears to ignore New Mexico deadline for key Epstein ranch files
State attorney general set 31 July deadline for documents relating to abuse of girls at Epstein-owned Zorro ranch The US Department of Justice (DoJ) appeared to ignore a Friday deadline set by Raúl Torrez, the attorney general of New Mexico, to share information about the abuse of girls at a remote ranch formerly owned by the disgraced financier and sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. Torrez’s office asked the DoJ in February for unredacted files after he reopened a dormant criminal investigation into activities at Zorro ranch, a remote 10,000-acre property in desert scrub outside New Mexico. It set a 31 July deadline for the department to share relevant records. As it approached on Friday, the justice department did not respond to a request for comment. The Guardian reported in February that recent releases of the so-called Epstein files included thousands of mentions of the ranch, and numerous photographs of men and young girls there. A succession of survivors had previously given testimony about abuse they were subjected to. However, unlike other properties prominent in Epstein’s sex-trafficking conspiracy in Palm Beach, New York, and his private Caribbean island, no federal search of

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