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womanofthehills

(10,893 posts)
Sun Mar 1, 2026, 04:37 PM Sunday

BREAKING - New Mexico AG Hector Balderas reveals federal prosecutors asked his office to HALT its investigation int

🚨 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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BREAKING - New Mexico AG Hector Balderas reveals federal prosecutors asked his office to HALT its investigation int (Original Post) womanofthehills Sunday OP
Get a warrant and some cadaver dogs out there. Ritabert Sunday #1
Now not yesterday orangecrush Sunday #11
Exactly. Ritabert Sunday #39
And stop alerting any perpetrators in advance of any enforcement action...n/t the nelm Monday #50
Yes! Ritabert Monday #54
This. Joinfortmill Monday #53
Wonder who was president in 2019? sinkingfeeling Sunday #2
Came here to ask the same question.. maspaha Sunday #6
And do these timelines coincide with Elon Musk running rampant through any thing he pleased? BattleRow Sunday #10
Well, it certainly coincides with Bill Barr as AG radical noodle Sunday #44
Amazing the total connections. I think Epstein was a world-class psychopath. OAITW r.2.0 Monday #47
Biden was sworn into office in January, 2021. OrangeJoe Monday #49
Exactly dss Monday #52
Right? How come I haven't seen a single article intheflow Monday #55
Enough Whip-poor-will Sunday #3
Don't forget the agencies who supplied the help Lifeafter70 Sunday #30
Hmmm, wasn't Trump President in 2019? surfered Sunday #4
Wow, that's damning. highplainsdem Sunday #5
Jesus Christ! bluestarone Sunday #7
Our tax dollars are going to protect pedophiles and murderers. MLWR Sunday #8
Wasn't the Attorney General at the time Retrograde Sunday #9
There's most definitely quite a few other rich & powerful people being protected besides tRump groundloop Sunday #18
William Barr's father gave Epstein a teaching position at the prestigious Dalton academy, even though Epstein dlk Sunday #25
Bill Barr was the AG at the time. ShazzieB Sunday #33
Bill Barr had a reputation to protect. . . His family's name MagickMuffin Sunday #35
Yes! radical noodle Sunday #45
Raul Torres! Clouds Passing Sunday #12
Rec. Rec. Rec malaise Sunday #13
Here's the whole post canetoad Sunday #14
dead victims buried. Check Drumph golf courses (19th hole). Oh wait. that would require a DOJ that actually did that. Evolve Dammit Sunday #15
"The investigation was "gutted" just weeks before Epstein died in custody." Botany Sunday #16
Appears a MAGA funder is buying Zorro ranch and excavating as we type. Any info? Evolve Dammit Sunday #17
yes NJCher Sunday #24
Don Huffines is running for state wide office. MagickMuffin Sunday #37
He's owned it since 2023. intheflow Monday #56
The guy is running as state comptroller in Texas. nt Trueblue Texan Monday #58
This whole fucking story makes me bluestarone Sunday #19
Just some raping, kidnapping, and killing of young girls as part of the largest criminal syndicate in history Botany Sunday #21
Yea. I did NOT realize THIS was from bluestarone Sunday #23
Yes, screaming hypocrisy Gum Logger Monday #62
Epstein had a central role in what is most likely the biggest criminal organization the world has ever known. patphil Sunday #20
He knew many names, that's for sure. bluestarone Sunday #27
And has anyone else been struck by how sloppy the work was if they were Trueblue Texan Monday #59
A lot of theories here but MadameButterfly Sunday #29
Bill Barr is part of the conspiracy and coverup MagickMuffin Sunday #38
He is a senior Opus Dei member. They are no angels. SharonAnn Monday #60
Mormon Complex? czarjak Sunday #22
??? niyad Sunday #40
Looks like the Eldorado, Texas compound from awhile back. czarjak Sunday #43
K&R spanone Sunday #26
DOJ did the same thing to New York/county DA. Justice Sunday #28
Quick- start a war! SamuelTheThird Sunday #31
Kick dalton99a Sunday #32
Traitors gonna hang out with traitors. Figuratively, of course. usonian Sunday #34
How did Epstein have the time to do all of this crime? HoosierDebbie Sunday #36
Crime was basically his job for years radical noodle Sunday #46
Won't be long before something turns up Blue Owl Sunday #41
"Who was being protected?" Wednesdays Sunday #42
In 2019??? Remind me who was AG in 2019...? Grins Monday #48
huffines, the rich texas lacks, has already removed the bodies. nt Javaman Monday #51
Another Kavanaugh-type "investigation." Martin68 Monday #57
Do you have a link the the original news piece? This Sayer Ji guy is a MAHA COVID19 conspiracist LymphocyteLover Monday #61
Here: CoopersDad Monday #63
Thanks! LymphocyteLover Monday #64
SDNY needs to get completely cleaned the fuck out by the next Democratic administration. W_HAMILTON Monday #65

BattleRow

(2,225 posts)
10. And do these timelines coincide with Elon Musk running rampant through any thing he pleased?
Sun Mar 1, 2026, 05:47 PM
Sunday

radical noodle

(10,553 posts)
44. Well, it certainly coincides with Bill Barr as AG
Sun Mar 1, 2026, 10:45 PM
Sunday

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

(31,960 posts)
47. Amazing the total connections. I think Epstein was a world-class psychopath.
Mon Mar 2, 2026, 01:29 AM
Monday

Just like Trump and Putin and Netanya. People. aspiring to power, gravitate to this political ideal: only my idea makes sense.

OrangeJoe

(557 posts)
49. Biden was sworn into office in January, 2021.
Mon Mar 2, 2026, 02:31 AM
Monday

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

(30,133 posts)
55. Right? How come I haven't seen a single article
Mon Mar 2, 2026, 11:06 AM
Monday

make that connection. It wasn’t Obama or Biden - and that’s a big tell.

Whip-poor-will

(44 posts)
3. Enough
Sun Mar 1, 2026, 05:02 PM
Sunday

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

(900 posts)
30. Don't forget the agencies who supplied the help
Sun Mar 1, 2026, 07:12 PM
Sunday

Housekeepers, gardeners ect
The help hears e everything.

Retrograde

(11,409 posts)
9. Wasn't the Attorney General at the time
Sun Mar 1, 2026, 05:41 PM
Sunday

the son of Epstein's first major employer, the school principal who hired him without any academic qualifications? Small world, isn't it.

groundloop

(13,736 posts)
18. There's most definitely quite a few other rich & powerful people being protected besides tRump
Sun Mar 1, 2026, 06:06 PM
Sunday

There has been quite a series of 'coincidences' happen to keep the truth hidden.

dlk

(13,220 posts)
25. William Barr's father gave Epstein a teaching position at the prestigious Dalton academy, even though Epstein
Sun Mar 1, 2026, 06:40 PM
Sunday

Didn't have a degree. There is so much more to all of this. We may never know the full scope.

ShazzieB

(22,468 posts)
33. Bill Barr was the AG at the time.
Sun Mar 1, 2026, 07:18 PM
Sunday

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

(18,312 posts)
35. Bill Barr had a reputation to protect. . . His family's name
Sun Mar 1, 2026, 07:42 PM
Sunday


Plus Don Barr wrote the bible for Epstein’s escapades of their depraved terrorism.





canetoad

(20,612 posts)
14. Here's the whole post
Sun Mar 1, 2026, 05:59 PM
Sunday

From Twit. Bold is mine.

Sayer Ji
@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

(21,710 posts)
15. dead victims buried. Check Drumph golf courses (19th hole). Oh wait. that would require a DOJ that actually did that.
Sun Mar 1, 2026, 06:03 PM
Sunday

Botany

(77,015 posts)
16. "The investigation was "gutted" just weeks before Epstein died in custody."
Sun Mar 1, 2026, 06:03 PM
Sunday

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.

NJCher

(42,944 posts)
24. yes
Sun Mar 1, 2026, 06:27 PM
Sunday

there was a post here telling how the county had stopped any work or excavation on the place.

MagickMuffin

(18,312 posts)
37. Don Huffines is running for state wide office.
Sun Mar 1, 2026, 07:47 PM
Sunday


His son Russell works for the current administration.

Don Huffines is a Nazi, white christian nationalist. And he’s extremely creepy looking.


intheflow

(30,133 posts)
56. He's owned it since 2023.
Mon Mar 2, 2026, 11:14 AM
Monday

Not selling any time soon, actively working to block investigations.

Botany

(77,015 posts)
21. Just some raping, kidnapping, and killing of young girls as part of the largest criminal syndicate in history
Sun Mar 1, 2026, 06:22 PM
Sunday

but then again Trump was caught with boxes of America’s top secrets which he was selling
and or giving to the Russians and nothing happened to him.

Remember about Hillary’s emails? Now, there was a crime.

bluestarone

(21,973 posts)
23. Yea. I did NOT realize THIS was from
Sun Mar 1, 2026, 06:25 PM
Sunday

2019!! Just cannot believe this shit. Plus now a MAGA bought the property. YUCK!!!

patphil

(8,940 posts)
20. Epstein had a central role in what is most likely the biggest criminal organization the world has ever known.
Sun Mar 1, 2026, 06:22 PM
Sunday

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.

Trueblue Texan

(4,359 posts)
59. And has anyone else been struck by how sloppy the work was if they were
Mon Mar 2, 2026, 12:29 PM
Monday

...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

(3,962 posts)
29. A lot of theories here but
Sun Mar 1, 2026, 07:03 PM
Sunday

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

(18,312 posts)
38. Bill Barr is part of the conspiracy and coverup
Sun Mar 1, 2026, 07:51 PM
Sunday


His family are no angels. They are perverted people.


czarjak

(13,568 posts)
43. Looks like the Eldorado, Texas compound from awhile back.
Sun Mar 1, 2026, 10:17 PM
Sunday

Sexual Abusers have a lot in common when it comes to abodes.

Justice

(7,254 posts)
28. DOJ did the same thing to New York/county DA.
Sun Mar 1, 2026, 06:49 PM
Sunday

Shocking.

Bill Barr needs to come back before the Committee. I want to read the transcript of his original testimony.

HoosierDebbie

(450 posts)
36. How did Epstein have the time to do all of this crime?
Sun Mar 1, 2026, 07:42 PM
Sunday

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

(10,553 posts)
46. Crime was basically his job for years
Sun Mar 1, 2026, 10:59 PM
Sunday

but he didn't do it all. There were lots of fingers in that criminal pie.

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