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(AP Photo\/Jose Luis Magana, File)\"><\/div><figcaption>New Mexico Attorney General Raul Torrez speaks during a news conference on April 14 in Washington, DC [Jose Luis Magana\/AP Photo]<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"article-info m--t-20 m--desktop-b-30 m--b-mobile-20\">\n<div class=\"byline byline--single-avatar\">\n<div class=\"avatars-container\"><a class=\"avatar\" aria-hidden=\"true\" href=\"\/author\/al_jazeera_staff_150119130629458\"><\/p>\n<div class=\"responsive-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/2017-06-08T131939Z_1189275883_RC11B0FE7F20_RTRMADP_3_GULF-QATAR-JAZEERA-1714943623.jpg?resize=96%2C96&amp;quality=80\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/div>\n<p><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"byline-content\">\n<div class=\"contributors-list contributors-list--byline\"><span class=\"contributors-list__by-prefix\">By <\/span><a href=\"\/author\/al_jazeera_staff_150119130629458\">Al Jazeera Staff<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"article-dates\">\n<div class=\"date-simple\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Published On 5 Aug 2026<\/span><span aria-hidden=\"true\">5 Aug 2026<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"wysiwyg wysiwyg--all-content\" aria-live=\"polite\">\n<p>New Mexico has filed a lawsuit against the United States Department of Justice and its leader, acting Attorney General Todd Blanche, accusing the nation\u2019s top law enforcement agency of \u201cstonewalling\u201d the state\u2019s investigation into the convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.<\/p>\n<p>In Wednesday\u2019s court filing, New Mexico\u2019s Attorney General Raul Torrez once again accused the Department of Justice of unlawfully withholding unredacted materials.<\/p>\n<section class=\"more-on\">\n<h2 class=\"more-on__heading\">Recommended Stories<!-- --> <\/h2>\n<p><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">list of 3 items<\/span><\/p>\n<ul class=\"more-on__list\">\n<li class=\"more-on__article\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">list 1 of 3<\/span><a class=\"more-on__link\" href=\"\/news\/2026\/7\/22\/french-model-recruiter-with-close-ties-to-jeffrey-epstein-found-dead\">French model recruiter with close ties to Jeffrey Epstein found dead<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"more-on__article\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">list 2 of 3<\/span><a class=\"more-on__link\" href=\"\/video\/newsfeed\/2026\/7\/25\/why-epsteins-survivors-are-still-fighting\">Why Epstein\u2019s survivors are still fighting<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"more-on__article\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">list 3 of 3<\/span><a class=\"more-on__link\" href=\"\/news\/2026\/8\/4\/senate-democrats-report-says-major-banks-looked-the-other-way-on-epstein\">Senate Democrat\u2019s report says major banks \u2018looked the other way\u2019 on Epstein<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">end of list<\/span><\/section>\n<p>Those materials, he argued, are critical to the state\u2019s investigations into Epstein\u2019s activities at the Zorro Ranch, a sprawling property the late financier once owned in New Mexico.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe asked the Department of Justice to cooperate by providing access to records that may be critical to identifying victims, witnesses, and additional criminal conduct at Zorro Ranch,\u201d Torrez said in a press release.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTheir delay is actively hurting our criminal investigation and delaying justice Epstein survivors deserve.\u201d<\/p>\n<h2 id=\"escalating-tensions\">Escalating tensions<\/h2>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/nmdoj.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/NM-Epstein-Touhy-Cmp_FILED.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">lawsuit<\/a> escalates a feud between Torrez, a Democrat, and the Republican administration of US President Donald Trump. Their spat has been building for months.<\/p>\n<p>In early July, Torrez <a href=\"\/news\/2026\/7\/9\/new-mexico-accuses-us-justice-department-of-impeding-epstein-investigation\">released a letter<\/a> he sent to the Justice Department the previous month, expressing frustration that, despite \u201cverbal assurances of cooperation\u201d, the federal government had failed to provide access to the relevant documents.<\/p>\n<p>The Department of Justice, meanwhile, <a href=\"\/news\/2026\/7\/15\/us-justice-department-refuses-new-mexicos-request-for-epstein-files\">has argued<\/a> that privacy law prevents it from providing state officials with unredacted documents from its Epstein file.<\/p>\n<div class=\"container--ads in-article-ads\">\n<div class=\"ads\"><span class=\"ads__title\"> Advertisement <\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>\u201cTo capitulate to their demands would be to break federal law. Is that what the [New Mexico Attorney General] is suggesting?\u201d the department said in a statement last month.<\/p>\n<p>Questions about Epstein\u2019s activities at the Zorro Ranch stretch back years. He owned the ranch from 1993 until his death in 2019. During that time, the wealthy financier was accused of orchestrating a sex-trafficking ring whose victims are thought to number in the hundreds.<\/p>\n<p>Survivors like the late Virginia Giuffre, who died by suicide in 2025, have warned that crimes took place at the Zorro Ranch.<\/p>\n<p>A conservative talk show host also approached the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) after he said he received an anonymous tip about sexual abuse on the site, as well as \u201cthe location of two foreign girls buried on Zorro Ranch\u201d. That tip has yet to be corroborated.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_4832070\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4832070\" style=\"width:770px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-arc-image-770 wp-image-4832070\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/reuters_6a7384c4-1785955524.jpg?w=770&amp;resize=770%2C535&amp;quality=80\" alt=\"A drone view shows Zorro Ranch, a property formerly owned by Jeffrey Epstein, near Stanley, New Mexico, U.S. March 8, 2026. REUTERS\/Rebecca Noble\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-4832070\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Zorro Ranch, near Stanley, New Mexico, was once owned by Jeffrey Epstein [File: Rebecca Noble\/Reuters]<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h2 id=\"investigation-paused\">Investigation paused<\/h2>\n<p>New Mexico had first opened an investigation into the ranch in February 2019.<\/p>\n<p>But by July of that year, the Department of Justice had asked New Mexico to stand down and transfer any information it gathered to federal authorities.<\/p>\n<p>At the time, the Justice Department was pursuing its own investigation into Epstein, and it arrested him on charges of trafficking minors for sex and engaging in a conspiracy to commit such sex trafficking.<\/p>\n<p>Later that month, while awaiting trial in a New York City jail cell, Epstein was found dead, in an incident that was ruled a suicide.<\/p>\n<p>From then on, Torrez said the investigation into Zorro Ranch languished. The vast property was sold in August 2023, and it is currently owned by businessman Don Huffines, a former member of the Texas Senate.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFederal law enforcement failed to ever search Zorro Ranch,\u201d Wednesday\u2019s lawsuit reads.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c[The Department of Justice] likewise failed to make any attempt to seize Zorro Ranch and Epstein\u2019s associated New Mexico property and failed to do anything else to preserve or gather evidence of Epstein\u2019s crimes in New Mexico.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Epstein case, however, surged back into the public spotlight in 2025, after Donald Trump was re-elected as US president.<\/p>\n<p>His second administration contained several prominent members who had spread conspiracy theories about the Epstein case, including that there was a secret, unreleased \u201cclient list\u201d used to blackmail powerful figures.<\/p>\n<p>Despite former Attorney General Pam Bondi initially telling Fox News she had the list on her desk, both she and FBI Director Kash Patel later denied any such document existed.<\/p>\n<div class=\"container--ads in-article-ads\">\n<div class=\"ads\"><span class=\"ads__title\"> Advertisement <\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Trump\u2019s own ties with Epstein helped fuel renewed interest in the case. The two socialised together in the 1990s and early 2000s, before severing ties. Trump has said their falling-out had to do with Epstein poaching workers from the Mar-a-Lago spa, and he has denied any knowledge of Epstein\u2019s crimes.<\/p>\n<div style=\"display:block;position:relative;min-width:0px;max-width:770px\">\n<\/div>\n<h2 id=\"documents-released\">Documents released<\/h2>\n<p>Still, critics have questioned how Epstein could have avoided justice for so long. His one conviction came in 2008 for the solicitation of a minor \u2014 and he served only 13 months of an 18-month sentence, in what some have described as an overly lenient plea deal.<\/p>\n<p>That scrutiny ignited a bipartisan push last November to pass the Epstein Files Transparency Act, which required the Department of Justice to release its Epstein-related files in a searchable format within 30 days.<\/p>\n<p>The law required limited redactions, save for the protection of victims\u2019 identities.<\/p>\n<p>The Justice Department ultimately released millions of Epstein-related files in January, but several members of Congress have accused the department of failing to comply with the law in its entirety.<\/p>\n<p>Some documents, they say, were redacted without cause, while other documents revealed the identities of survivors.<\/p>\n<p>In February, New Mexico reopened its investigation into Zorro Ranch. It said the newly released Epstein files included more than 13,000 references to the property and roughly 5,000 references to the state as a location \u201cwhere victims were trafficked, groomed, and assaulted\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Despite that evidence, Torrez said the Department of Justice failed to follow through with its \u201cexpress assurances\u201d to help with the state\u2019s Epstein investigation.<\/p>\n<p>In Wednesday\u2019s lawsuit, his legal team argued that further delay in accessing the unredacted files could pervert the pursuit of justice.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAttorney General Torrez has marched through every bureaucratic hoop [Department of Justice] has demanded, only to have years of promised federal cooperation turned into bureaucratic defiance,\u201d the lawsuit said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFederal inaction does not merely stall the investigation; it prolongs and compounds the suffering of survivors.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The lawsuit has been filed with the US District Court in Washington, DC.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ListenListen (6 mins) Save Click here to share on social media share-nodes Share facebookxwhatsapp-strokecopylink googleAdd Al Jazeera on Googleinfo New Mexico Attorney General Raul Torrez speaks during a news conference on April 14 in Washington, DC [Jose Luis Magana\/AP Photo] By Al Jazeera Staff Published On 5 Aug 20265 Aug 2026 New Mexico has filed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2105","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.2 - 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