by Ryan Rose,
New Mexico says the Justice Department has spent 130 days withholding the unredacted Epstein files its investigators need.
The Justice Department says it welcomes New Mexico’s Epstein investigation. It has just declined to hand over the files New Mexico needs to conduct it.
New Mexico Attorney General Raul Torrez accused the U.S. Department of Justice of
hindering the state’s probe into Jeffrey Epstein by withholding unredacted files on the late sex offender. The Democratic-run state reopened its investigation in February into Epstein’s former ranch south of Santa Fe, where he is accused of abusing women and girls for nearly three decades.
In a June 30 letter to Acting U.S. Attorney Todd Blanche, Torrez said the department had failed to respond to a February request for unredacted files containing the names of survivors, witnesses, and co-conspirators essential to the investigation. He called the 130-day delay “unreasonable under any rule of reason.”
A Justice Department spokesperson said the agency responded in June, “welcomes” the state’s inquiry into Zorro Ranch, and “stands ready to provide necessary assistance.”
Torrez has spent five months investigating a ranch that’s been sold, crimes that are decades old, and a suspect who’s dead — and somehow the DOJ is still his biggest obstacle.
Source: https://www.alternetamerica.com
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