Interesting fact: a candidate for state comptroller in Texas, Don Huffines, a Republican who is campaigning as a pro-Trump conservative, acquired the Epstein ranch in New Mexico in 2023 with the intent of turning it into a Christian retreat.
The state of New Mexico tried to investigate. The Feds claimed jurisdiction and forced them to stand down. Then did nothing.
https://spectator.org/new-mexico-launches-2-5-million-investigation-into-epsteins-zorro-ranch/
In 2019, shortly after Epstein’s arrest in New York, New Mexico’s Attorney General Hector Balderas opened a state-level inquiry into potential crimes connected to Zorro Ranch.
That effort was halted after federal prosecutors in Manhattan requested that New Mexico “cease any investigation into sex trafficking” and that they “would pass along any information [federal investigators] may have gathered about state crimes that were committed.”
Subsequent emails released by the Justice Department indicate that federal authorities ultimately had “not searched the New Mexico property.”