The government of the State of New Mexico may offer an alternative solution to the coverup and stonewalling by the FBI and the DOJ. Because of the ownership of property in the the state, New Mexico finds that the Trump-Epstein criminal activities involve the defendents involved in the federal case. New Mexico has all the standing it needs to charge and indict and subpoena witnesses in a jury trial. We may hear and see more of this news item as this week wears on:
BREAKING NEWS
New Mexico Legislature Passes Survivors Truth Commission, Allocating Millions to Invstigate What Happened at Epstein's Zorro Ranch
By Alisa Valdes-Rodriguez
Santa Fe, NM - New Mexico lawmakers this afternoon unanimously approved House Resolution 1, creating a special House investigatory subcommittee to examine allegations of criminal activity, public corruption, and institutional failures tied to Jeffrey Epstein's former Zorro Ranch in Santa Fe County.
The measure was introduced by Representatives Andrea Romero (D-Santa Fe) and Marianna Anaya (D-Albuquerque), with bipartisan support, and establishes a temporary legislative body empowered to hold hearings, administer oaths, compel witnesses, and issue subpoenas. The committee, which holds its first meeting tomorrow, must produce an interim report this summer and a final public report by the end of 2026.
Unlike past symbolic gestures, this investigation comes with real backing. Lawmakers approved funding of roughly $2 million to support investigators, legal staff, document review, and public hearings, signaling that the state intends to conduct a serious inquiry rather than a performative one.
The investigation is long overdue. Despite years of allegations from survivors and witnesses of rape, murder and the burial of girls' bodies on the property, Epstein was never prosecuted in New Mexico, and there has never been a search by any law enforcement agency of the 8000-acre Zorro Ranch property following his 2019 arrest. For many, that absence remains one of the most glaring failures in the broader Epstein case.
The ranch, located in a remote stretch of land outside Stanley, New Mexico, about 40 miles south of Santa Fe, remained owned by the Epstein estate after his death, and was not sold until 2023. The buyers created a shell LLC to purchase the property one month before buying it, in hopes of remaining anonymous — which they were able to do, until last week.
Investigative reporting by Clara Bates at the Santa Fe New Mexican last week revealed the identity of the property's buyer after a records request forced disclosure. The paper identified the new owners as Don and Mary Huffines.
Don Huffines is a former Texas state senator and current candidate for Texas comptroller under the slogan "DOGE TEXAS." He and other members of his family are closely aligned with Donald Trump and other MAGA Republicans.
Huffines' son Russell is currently employed as Associate Director of Agency Outreach in the White House Office of Cabinet Affairs, in Trump's cabinet. Russell's wife Mikaela is a former aid to North Carolina Republican congressman Richard Hudson, whose wife Renee is the Chief of Staff for Kellyanne Conway, former Counselor to the President Donald Trump.
These connections matter, because Trump's name appears more than 1 million times in the Epstein files that have so far been released. Survivors in the files have named Trump as having raped and beaten them when they were minors. Trump, a 32-count felon with a civil conviction for rape, has maintained that he barely knew Epstein and has said the country just "needs to move on."
New Mexico is not moving on.
Among the allegations in the latest round of files is that two "foreign girls" were raped to death and buried on Epstein's ranch.
Romero and Anaya have framed the commission not as a partisan weapon but as a test of whether state institutions will finally confront how wealth, power, and political influence allowed Epstein to operate in New Mexico without accountability. New Mexico law enforcement had tried in the past to search the property but Trump's FBI intervened to stop them.
If the commission succeeds, New Mexico could become the first state to produce a comprehensive public accounting of the activities of Epstein and his co-conspirators and associates within its borders.
For survivors, that means acknowledgment. For the public, it means finally shining light on how power operated in the shadows.
And for Donald Trump, this could very well spell the end.
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Juan Matute
CCRC
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