March 4, 2026

In September 2019, federal prosecutors asked New Mexico to shut down its active investigation into Jeffrey Epstein’s desert compound.

The state complied. The feds never held up their end of the deal.

According to a report by The Albuquerque Journal, former New Mexico Attorney General Hector Balderas revealed recently that prosecutors from the Southern District of New York pressured his office to cease its probe into sex trafficking at Epstein’s Zorro Ranch, a 7,500 acre estate south of Santa Fe that Epstein purchased from former Governor Bruce King’s family in 1993.

The stated reason was that parallel investigations could produce conflicting witness statements that defense lawyers might exploit.

In exchange, the feds promised to share their own findings. That promise was never fulfilled.

On September 8, 2019, assistant U.S. Attorney Maurene Comey, the daughter of former FBI Director James Comey, confirmed in an email that Balderas’s office had agreed to halt its work and turn over all materials, per a report by Time.

In September 2019, federal prosecutors from the Southern District of New York pressured New Mexico to halt its investigation into Jeffrey Epstein’s Zorro Ranch sex trafficking case, citing concerns that overlapping probes might create conflicting witness statements for the defense to exploit, and promised to share their findings—a promise they ultimately never kept; New Mexico’s Attorney General Hector Balderas later revealed that his office complied with the request, confirmed by assistant U.S. Attorney Maurene Comey, but the federal prosecutors failed to follow through, leaving the state’s investigation shut down without resolution.

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