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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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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…

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