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(Washington) American investigators have begun searching Jeffrey Epstein’s property in New Mexico, in connection with accusations that young girls and women were victims of the sex criminal there, authorities announced.
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The operation follows the reopening in this state in the southwest of the United States of investigations into the actions of the ex-financier in this property, the Zorro ranch, whose name appears thousands of times in the declassified archives of the file.
“This search is part of the criminal investigation announced on February 19 by the New Mexico Department of Justice into accusations of illegal activities at Epstein’s ranch before (his) death in 2019,” the department said in a statement.
“Epstein survivors have waited far too long for justice and New Mexico is leading the way in the quest for truth,” said state Congresswoman Melanie Stansbury on X.
“We are leaving no stone unturned,” she stressed, adding that the New Mexico Department of Justice is “seeking credible information about the crimes committed by Epstein and his associates” in the state.
According to several American media, local authorities in February requested from the federal Department of Justice an unredacted version of a 2019 email contained in the Epstein file, which claims that the billionaire had the bodies of two young foreign girls buried “in the hills” surrounding the Zorro ranch.
Jeffrey Epstein was arrested and charged in July 2019 with sexual exploitation of minors and criminal conspiracy. He was found hanging in his cell on August 10, 2019, while awaiting trial. The autopsy ruled it suicide.
Already accused more than ten years earlier in Florida of using the services of underage prostitutes, he was sentenced in 2008 to a modified prison sentence of 13 months, according to a secret agreement made with a prosecutor allowing him to escape federal prosecution.
After Jeffrey Epstein’s death, a woman identified as “Jane Doe 15” told reporters that the criminal raped her at the Zorro Ranch when she was 15 years old.
