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Welcome back to the Epstein Files.

Last time we covered our last breaking news update.

And today, breaking news has emerged about this one.

The DOJ said it was done. It wasn't.

In 2019, New Mexico opened a state investigation into Zorro Ranch, then halted it after federal intervention.

Newly released records indicate the property was never searched, and the state has now reopened the case.

As always, every document we referenced is at Epsteinfiles.fm.

So the place to start is the EFTA documents, because the DOJ release contains hundreds of emails that show exactly how this relationship functioned.

Right. The documents show a persistent pattern of institutional interference overriding

local jurisdiction. The Zoro Ranch incident in New Mexico provides a baseline for you to understand

federal methodology regarding these records. Yeah, because the state initiated a criminal

inquiry into the property, but federal authorities intervened. Exactly. The paper trail confirms

the state investigation ceased and the physical premises were never subjected to a state-level forensic search.

So now that New Mexico has reopened the case, investigators are confronting a five-year gap in evidence collection.

A gap that is a direct result of federal siloing.

And that siloing extends directly into the current federal mandate.

In November 2025, Congress passed the Epstein-Files Transparency Act, or the EFTA.

Right. The statute required the Department of Justice to release all unclassified records related to the investigation by December 19, 2025.

But the DOJ failed to meet that deadline. The agencies subsequently disclosed that 5.2 million pages of records remain unreviewed.

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