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womanofthehills

(10,883 posts)
Sun Mar 1, 2026, 04:37 PM 8 hrs ago

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 8 hrs ago OP
Get a warrant and some cadaver dogs out there. Ritabert 8 hrs ago #1
Now not yesterday orangecrush 7 hrs ago #11
Exactly. Ritabert 5 hrs ago #39
Wonder who was president in 2019? sinkingfeeling 8 hrs ago #2
Came here to ask the same question.. maspaha 7 hrs ago #6
And do these timelines coincide with Elon Musk running rampant through any thing he pleased? BattleRow 7 hrs ago #10
Well, it certainly coincides with Bill Barr as AG radical noodle 2 hrs ago #44
Amazing the total connections. I think Epstein was a world-class psychopath. OAITW r.2.0 6 min ago #47
Enough Whip-poor-will 8 hrs ago #3
Don't forget the agencies who supplied the help Lifeafter70 6 hrs ago #30
Hmmm, wasn't Trump President in 2019? surfered 8 hrs ago #4
Wow, that's damning. highplainsdem 8 hrs ago #5
Jesus Christ! bluestarone 7 hrs ago #7
Our tax dollars are going to protect pedophiles and murderers. MLWR 7 hrs ago #8
Wasn't the Attorney General at the time Retrograde 7 hrs ago #9
There's most definitely quite a few other rich & powerful people being protected besides tRump groundloop 7 hrs ago #18
William Barr's father gave Epstein a teaching position at the prestigious Dalton academy, even though Epstein dlk 6 hrs ago #25
Bill Barr was the AG at the time. ShazzieB 6 hrs ago #33
Bill Barr had a reputation to protect. . . His family's name MagickMuffin 5 hrs ago #35
Yes! radical noodle 2 hrs ago #45
Raul Torres! Clouds Passing 7 hrs ago #12
Rec. Rec. Rec malaise 7 hrs ago #13
Here's the whole post canetoad 7 hrs ago #14
dead victims buried. Check Drumph golf courses (19th hole). Oh wait. that would require a DOJ that actually did that. Evolve Dammit 7 hrs ago #15
"The investigation was "gutted" just weeks before Epstein died in custody." Botany 7 hrs ago #16
Appears a MAGA funder is buying Zorro ranch and excavating as we type. Any info? Evolve Dammit 7 hrs ago #17
yes NJCher 7 hrs ago #24
Don Huffines is running for state wide office. MagickMuffin 5 hrs ago #37
This whole fucking story makes me bluestarone 7 hrs ago #19
Just some raping, kidnapping, and killing of young girls as part of the largest criminal syndicate in history Botany 7 hrs ago #21
Yea. I did NOT realize THIS was from bluestarone 7 hrs ago #23
Epstein had a central role in what is most likely the biggest criminal organization the world has ever known. patphil 7 hrs ago #20
He knew many names, that's for sure. bluestarone 6 hrs ago #27
A lot of theories here but MadameButterfly 6 hrs ago #29
Bill Barr is part of the conspiracy and coverup MagickMuffin 5 hrs ago #38
Mormon Complex? czarjak 7 hrs ago #22
??? niyad 5 hrs ago #40
Looks like the Eldorado, Texas compound from awhile back. czarjak 3 hrs ago #43
K&R spanone 6 hrs ago #26
DOJ did the same thing to New York/county DA. Justice 6 hrs ago #28
Quick- start a war! SamuelTheThird 6 hrs ago #31
Kick dalton99a 6 hrs ago #32
Traitors gonna hang out with traitors. Figuratively, of course. usonian 5 hrs ago #34
How did Epstein have the time to do all of this crime? HoosierDebbie 5 hrs ago #36
Crime was basically his job for years radical noodle 2 hrs ago #46
Won't be long before something turns up Blue Owl 4 hrs ago #41
"Who was being protected?" Wednesdays 4 hrs ago #42

BattleRow

(2,213 posts)
10. And do these timelines coincide with Elon Musk running rampant through any thing he pleased?
Sun Mar 1, 2026, 05:47 PM
7 hrs ago

radical noodle

(10,540 posts)
44. Well, it certainly coincides with Bill Barr as AG
Sun Mar 1, 2026, 10:45 PM
2 hrs ago

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

(31,931 posts)
47. Amazing the total connections. I think Epstein was a world-class psychopath.
Mon Mar 2, 2026, 01:29 AM
6 min ago

Just like Trump and Putin and Netanya.

Whip-poor-will

(17 posts)
3. Enough
Sun Mar 1, 2026, 05:02 PM
8 hrs ago

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

(884 posts)
30. Don't forget the agencies who supplied the help
Sun Mar 1, 2026, 07:12 PM
6 hrs ago

Housekeepers, gardeners ect
The help hears e everything.

Retrograde

(11,406 posts)
9. Wasn't the Attorney General at the time
Sun Mar 1, 2026, 05:41 PM
7 hrs ago

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

groundloop

(13,719 posts)
18. There's most definitely quite a few other rich & powerful people being protected besides tRump
Sun Mar 1, 2026, 06:06 PM
7 hrs ago

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

dlk

(13,218 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
6 hrs ago

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

ShazzieB

(22,461 posts)
33. Bill Barr was the AG at the time.
Sun Mar 1, 2026, 07:18 PM
6 hrs ago

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

(18,311 posts)
35. Bill Barr had a reputation to protect. . . His family's name
Sun Mar 1, 2026, 07:42 PM
5 hrs ago


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





canetoad

(20,597 posts)
14. Here's the whole post
Sun Mar 1, 2026, 05:59 PM
7 hrs ago

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

(21,704 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
7 hrs ago

Botany

(76,978 posts)
16. "The investigation was "gutted" just weeks before Epstein died in custody."
Sun Mar 1, 2026, 06:03 PM
7 hrs ago

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

(42,930 posts)
24. yes
Sun Mar 1, 2026, 06:27 PM
7 hrs ago

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

MagickMuffin

(18,311 posts)
37. Don Huffines is running for state wide office.
Sun Mar 1, 2026, 07:47 PM
5 hrs ago


His son Russell works for the current administration.

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


Botany

(76,978 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
7 hrs ago

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

(21,940 posts)
23. Yea. I did NOT realize THIS was from
Sun Mar 1, 2026, 06:25 PM
7 hrs ago

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

patphil

(8,926 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
7 hrs ago

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.

MadameButterfly

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

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

(18,311 posts)
38. Bill Barr is part of the conspiracy and coverup
Sun Mar 1, 2026, 07:51 PM
5 hrs ago


His family are no angels. They are perverted people.


czarjak

(13,562 posts)
43. Looks like the Eldorado, Texas compound from awhile back.
Sun Mar 1, 2026, 10:17 PM
3 hrs ago

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
6 hrs ago

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
5 hrs ago

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

(10,540 posts)
46. Crime was basically his job for years
Sun Mar 1, 2026, 10:59 PM
2 hrs ago

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

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