President Donald Trump and his administration are clearly eager to move past the Epstein files scandal.
“Not so fast,” New Mexico said. Within days of the state House establishing a “truth commission” to probe the activities of the deceased sex criminal and well-connected powerbroker in the state, New Mexico’s Department of Justice announced an investigation of its own on Wednesday into disturbing allegations contained in the recent Epstein files release.
The state agency said it is seeking unredacted documents from the Department of Justice related to an unconfirmed claim that Epstein had the bodies of two foreign-born girls buried near his Zorro Ranch, a location that’s been linked to his eugenicist dream of populating the planet with children bearing his genes.
As Reuters reported:
New Mexico’s Department of Justice said on Wednesday the state was investigating an allegation, which emerged from documents released by the U.S. Department of Justice, that the late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein ordered the bodies of two foreign girls buried outside his remote New Mexico ranch. New Mexico Department of Justice spokesperson Lauren Rodriguez said it had requested from the U.S. Justice Department an unredacted copy of an email in 2019 containing the allegation. The U.S. Justice Department did not immediately respond to a request for comment. The FBI declined comment.
Rodriguez told Reuters, “We are actively investigating this allegation and are conducting a broader review in light of the latest release from the U.S. Department of Justice.”
In the email in question (which you can read here), a person whose email address has been redacted wrote to conservative talk radio host Ed Aragon claiming to be an ex-employee at Epstein’s ranch and requesting bitcoin in exchange for videos that purportedly show Epstein engaging in sexual abuse of minors. The email also says “two foreign girls were buried on orders of Jeffrey and Madam G” and that the girls “died by strangulation during rough, fetish sex.” Aragon told the Sante Fe New Mexican last week that he never paid the emailer and relayed the tip to the FBI. After speaking to an agent about the email, Aragon said he never heard back from them. That same report highlights a letter sent this week from the state land commissioner urging federal and state investigators to examine the claims in the email. However the claims in this email play out, that they’re being investigated at all, at least at the state level, shows the futility of the Trump administration’s desperate push to get the country to focus on “something else” other than the Epstein files, a scandal that Trump has repeatedly called a “hoax.” Calls for accountability here in the United States have not let up, even as Americans watch powerful foreign figures, including a sultan and now-former prince, face varying levels of scrutiny over their ties to Epstein. New Mexico is showing what it looks like for states to respond to those calls, at time when the feds seem to have shown no interest in doing so.
Ja’han Jones is an MS NOW opinion blogger. He previously wrote The ReidOut Blog. 
