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New Mexico’s attorney general has released a letter he sent to the United States Department of Justice (USDOJ), criticizing the federal government for obstructing the federal investigation into the late Jeffrey Epstein’s crimes.
The letter, dated June 30, was published online Thursday, as part of the growing conflict between Attorney General Raul Torrez and the administration of President Donald Trump.
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In the letter, Torrez describes several requests that he says have gone unanswered by the Justice Department since February.
“Despite verbal assurances of agreement from the USDOJ, access to the requested records has not been granted, no substantial response has been provided, and more than 130 days have passed,” said Torrez, a Democrat.
“The (New Mexico Department of Justice) views this length of time as an unnecessary delay.”
Southwest country he reopened his investigation Epstein in February, after the government released millions of files related to the perpetrator.
Some of the documents related to Epstein’s activities in New Mexico Zorro Ranchthe location they had in central New Mexico from 1993 onward.
Epstein, a wealthy financier with powerful connections, has built a large estate on the farm where he hosts guests. But allegations of sex trafficking at the site have not been fully investigated.
Reopening the case
New Mexico tried to launch an investigation into Epstein’s actions at the site in 2019, but then-state attorney Hector Balderas told US reporters that his agency would suspend its work to allow prosecutors to pursue their case.
In Thursday letterTorrez said he wants to finish the investigation he started, but that the investigation has faced “real and escalating problems” due to a lack of federal cooperation.
“The USDOJ now has documents that will allow the (New Mexico Department of Justice) to reopen the state’s tampering,” Torrez said.
Epstein was convicted of soliciting a child for prostitution in Florida in 2008, where he served just 13 months in prison. At the time of his death in 2019, he was in prison awaiting trial on charges of being a sex offender. His victims are thought to number in the hundreds.
Questions about Epstein’s crimes resurfaced in 2025, led by Trump, who was among the politicians, businessmen and artists with whom Epstein interacted.
Critics have criticized the Trump administration for failing to be transparent in its handling of the Epstein files. Some have speculated whether Trump’s relationship with the perpetrator could have helped him keep Epstein’s government files from being released.
Trump has denied any knowledge of or involvement in Epstein’s wrongdoing.
After opposing the release of the Epstein files, Trump supported their release in November and later signed the Epstein Files Transparency Act into law.
The order required the Justice Department to release all of its records related to Epstein within 30 days and without redactions, except to protect the victims.
However, lawmakers have questioned whether the Trump administration followed through on the order. While the first batch of documents was published on December 19, it was at the end of January that millions of files came online – and many were heavily redacted.
Meanwhile, the identities of some of the victims were made public in the document.
Access to Epstein’s files
In Thursday’s letter, Torrez said his office has obtained several redacted files to which he requested full access, while the government investigates. But he said the Department of Justice has failed to comply with his request.
“Every day that the USDOJ withholds these documents, the foundation upon which the New Mexico case can be built is undermined,” Torrez said.
“Witnesses are displaced and become inaccessible. Memories, already suppressed by years of pain, disappear.
The Justice Department has refused to block the Torrez investigation and has instead told US media that it is ready to help.
According to Epstein’s released files, in 2019, a journalist named Edward Aragon went to the Albuquerque office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), and said he had received it. guidelines for abuse at Zorro Ranch.
The FBI form showed that the tipster gave Aragon “7 videos of sexual abuse by Jeffrey Epstein and where two foreign girls were placed at Zorro Ranch to sell one bitcoin”.
Also in 2019, The New York Times published a story that Epstein plans to use the farm to impregnate multiple women and spread his DNA, citing people familiar with his plans.
Those reports, along with testimony from survivors like Virginia Giuffre, have raised fears about what happened at Zorro Ranch.
In February, New Mexico became the first country to establish A bipartisan “truth commission” to look into Epstein’s crimes. The commission’s report is expected by the end of the year.
Giuffre’s brothers, Sky Roberts and Daniel Wilson, participated in protests outside the farm earlier this year. Their sister committed suicide in April 2025.
