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The New Mexico Epstein Commission Interim Report (Part 11) (8/11/26) · The Vault: The Epstein Files

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  Speaker 1: What's up everyone, and welcome to another episode of the
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  Speaker 1: Epstein Chronicles. In this episode, we're picking up where we
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  Speaker 1: left off with the New Mexico Truth Commission and their
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  Speaker 1: interim report about Jeffrey Epstein in his crimes in the
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  Speaker 1: state of New Mexico chargeable criminal offenses. The Truth Commission
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  Speaker 1: will continue to look for opportunities to refer matters for
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  Speaker 1: criminal prosecution so that the perpetrators can be held accountable.
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  Speaker 1: Based on survivor's statements and other evidence. Epstein, Maxwell, and
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  Speaker 1: possibly others engaged in criminal conduct between ninety six and
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  Speaker 1: twenty twelve. The following state statutes with corresponding limitation periods
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  Speaker 1: were available as potential charges. Potentially chargeable offenses and limitation periods.
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  Speaker 1: Section thirty Dash nine Dash one Enticement of a child
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  Speaker 1: five year misdemeanor, Section thirty Dash nine Dash two, Prostitution
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  Speaker 1: five year misdemeanor, Section thirty nine datis US three, Patronizing
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  Speaker 1: prostitutes five years misdemeanor, Section thirty Dash nine Dash four,
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  Speaker 1: Promoting prostitution five years misdemeanor. Section thirty Dash nine Dash eleven,
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  Speaker 1: Criminal sexual penetration six years or if a minor at
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  Speaker 1: any time after the occurrence of the crime until the
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  Speaker 1: alleged victim reaches the age of thirty five, subject to
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  Speaker 1: possible tolling. Section thirty Dash nine Dash twelve Criminal sexual
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  Speaker 1: contact six years or if a minor, at any time
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  Speaker 1: after the occurrence of the crime until the alleged victim
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  Speaker 1: reaches the age of thirty five, subject to possible tolling
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  Speaker 1: Section thirty Dash nine Dash thirteen, Criminal sexual contact of
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  Speaker 1: a minor six years. Section thirty Dash fifty two Dash
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  Speaker 1: one Human trafficking six years if a second degree felony.
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  Speaker 1: In two thousand and eight, the New Mexico Legislature enacted
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  Speaker 1: Human Trafficking Criminal statutefied at NMSA Section thirty Dash fifty
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  Speaker 1: two Dash one twenty twenty five. A person can be
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  Speaker 1: convicted under this statute for knowingly one recruiting, soliciting, enticing, transporting,
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  Speaker 1: or obtaining by any means another person with the intent
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  Speaker 1: or knowledge that force, fraud, or coercion will be used
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  Speaker 1: to subject to person to labor services or commercial sexual activity.
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  Speaker 1: Two recruiting, soliciting, enticing, transporting, or obtaining by any means
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  Speaker 1: of person under the age of eighteen years, with the
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  Speaker 1: intent or knowledge that the person will be caused to
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  Speaker 1: engage in commercial sexual activity or three benefiting financially or
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  Speaker 1: by receiving anything of value from the labor services or
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  Speaker 1: commercial sexual activity of another person, with the knowledge that force, fraud,
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  Speaker 1: or coercion was used to obtain the labor services or
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  Speaker 1: commercial sexual activity. New Mexico's Human Trafficking Statute sets forth
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  Speaker 1: the definition and penalties, but does not include a special
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  Speaker 1: limitation period. Accordingly, New Mexico's general limitation rules set forth
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  Speaker 1: at NMSSAY Section thirty Dash one, Dash eight, nineteen seventy eight,
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  Speaker 1: apply with different limits depending on degree eg. Six years
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  Speaker 1: for second degree felonies, five years for third or fourth
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  Speaker 1: degree felonies. However, House Bill one sixteen twenty twenty four
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  Speaker 1: and Senate Bill thirty two twenty twenty six both proposed
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  Speaker 1: amending section thirty Dash one eight to remove the limitation
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  Speaker 1: for human trafficking for instances that are not already time barred.
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  Speaker 1: The proposed amendment was as follows. For any crime against
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  Speaker 1: or in violation of Section thirty Dash fifty two Dash
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  Speaker 1: one NMSSAY, nineteen seventy eight, no limitation period shall exist,
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  Speaker 1: and prosecution for these crimes may commence at any time
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  Speaker 1: after the occurrence of the crime. If enacted, this would
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  Speaker 1: eliminate the statute of limitations for human trafficking entirely, regardless
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  Speaker 1: of the offense's degree, thereby allowing for future prosecution of
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  Speaker 1: these crimes without having a time limit to prosecute. These
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  Speaker 1: laws would not be retroactive, however, because of the ex
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  Speaker 1: post facto restrictions rooted in Article one, Section nine, and
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  Speaker 1: ten of the US Constitution. Investigative Area Number two Institutional failures.
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  Speaker 1: The investigative Area covers the failure of governmental and private
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  Speaker 1: entities to investigate, prosecute, or take action in response to
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  Speaker 1: Epstein's known or suspected wrongdoing. This includes, but is not
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  Speaker 1: limited to, the failure of the U s Attorney's Office
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  Speaker 1: for the District of New Mexico to complete its investigation
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  Speaker 1: of Epstein's activities in New Mexico, the failure of the
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  Speaker 1: New Mexico Attorney General to complete its investigation of Epstein,
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  Speaker 1: the New Mexico Attorney General's failure to maintain a copy
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  Speaker 1: of records generated and collected in connection with its investigation
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  Speaker 1: of Epstein, The Santa Fe District Attorney's failure to investigate Epstein,
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  Speaker 1: the failure of the state authorities to monitor Epstein as
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  Speaker 1: a sex offender, and the failure of the State Land
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  Speaker 1: Office to enforce the terms of his land lease Sex
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  Speaker 1: Offender Registration and Notification Act soorna oversight. On June thirtieth,
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  Speaker 1: two thousand and eight, Epstein was convicted in pom Beach, Florida,
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  Speaker 1: of procuring a person under the age of eighteen for
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  Speaker 1: a prostitution in violation of Florida Statute seven ninety six
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  Speaker 1: dot three. He was released from probation parole corrections on
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  Speaker 1: July twenty one, twenty ten. The age of Epstein's victim
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  Speaker 1: at the time of the offense for which he was
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  Speaker 1: convicted was seventeen. Under New Mexico law applicable at the time,
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  Speaker 1: a sex offender residing in the state was required to
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  Speaker 1: register with the County Sheriff no later than ten days
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  Speaker 1: after being released from custody or being placed on probation
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  Speaker 1: or parole. When registering with the county sheriff, a sex
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  Speaker 1: offender was required to provide certain information including name and alias's,
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  Speaker 1: date of birth, social Security number, address, place of employment,
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  Speaker 1: the sex offense committed, and the date in place of
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  Speaker 1: the sex offense id at Section twenty nine Dash eleven
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  Speaker 1: A Dash four B, two thousand and nine. New Mexico
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  Speaker 1: law applicable at the time to find sex offense to
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  Speaker 1: include specified offenses as set forth by New Mexico Statute,
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  Speaker 1: including criminal sexual penetration in the first, second, third, or
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  Speaker 1: fourth degree as provided in NMSA Section thirty dot nine
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  Speaker 1: Dash eleven, two thousand and nine, or their equivalents, and
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  Speaker 1: any other jurisdiction. Criminal sexual penetration in the fourth degree
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  Speaker 1: consists of all criminal sexual penetration on a child thirteen
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  Speaker 1: to sixteen years of age when the perpetrator is at
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  Speaker 1: least eighteen years of age and is at least four
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  Speaker 1: years older than the child and not the spouse of
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  Speaker 1: that child. While under New Mexico law, Epstein would not
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  Speaker 1: have committed a crime because the girl was seventeen if applicable.
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  Speaker 1: SONA codified at thirty four USC Section twenty nine oh
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  Speaker 1: one provides a comprehensive set of minimum standards for sex
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  Speaker 1: offender registration and notification in the US. Among other things,
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  Speaker 1: SOORNA require sex offenders to register and keep the registration
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  Speaker 1: current in each jurisdiction where they live. Work or go
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  Speaker 1: to school, and also require sex offenders to make periodic
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  Speaker 1: in person appearances to verify and update their registration information.
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  Speaker 1: Only those convicted of qualifying sex offenses must register. There
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  Speaker 1: are five classes of qualifying offenses, one designated federal sex offenses,
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  Speaker 1: two specified military offenses, three crimes identified as one of
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  Speaker 1: the special offenses against a minor, four crimes in which
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  Speaker 1: some sexual act or sexual conduct is an element, and
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  Speaker 1: five attempts or conspiracy to commit any offense in one
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  Speaker 1: of these other classes of qualifying offenses. On July twenty second,
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  Speaker 1: twenty ten, the Florida Department of Law Enforcement sent the
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  Speaker 1: New Mexico Department of Public Safety a letter notifying them
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  Speaker 1: that Epstein was a sexual offender and had indicated a
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  Speaker 1: forwarding address of forty nine Zoro Ranch Road, Stanley, New Mexico.
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  Speaker 1: FDL also forwarded Epstein's FDL Sexual Predator Offender Registration form,
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  Speaker 1: which listed the Virgin Islands as Epstein's then permanent address.
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  Speaker 1: The form listed Epstein's other addresses, his employer, which he
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  Speaker 1: listed as FTC sixty one hundred Red Hook Quarter Sweet
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  Speaker 1: B three US Virgin Islands, and his vehicles also attached
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  Speaker 1: to The letter was a notice of Sexual predator and
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  Speaker 1: sexual offender obligations. By letter dated July twenty three, twenty ten,
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  Speaker 1: NMDPS notified Epstein of his obligation to register with the
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  Speaker 1: sheriff of the New Mexico County in which he intended
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  Speaker 1: to reside no later than ten days after establishing residents
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  Speaker 1: in New Mexico. On August twelfth, twenty ten, the detective
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  Speaker 1: responsible for overseeing Epstein's sex offender registration sent an email
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  Speaker 1: to the NMDPS indicating that she spoke with Epstein's attorney
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  Speaker 1: and let him know that they're working on figuring out
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  Speaker 1: if Jeffrey would have a state requirement to register or
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  Speaker 1: just a federal requirement, and asking can you let me
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  Speaker 1: know what will be his requirement. On the same day,
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  Speaker 1: the program manager for the Sex Offender Registration Unit or
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  Speaker 1: at the NMDPS advised the detective, I guess he's not
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  Speaker 1: required to register in New Mexico. On August seventeenth, twenty ten,
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  Speaker 1: Epstein completed a New Mexico sex offender registration form. According
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  Speaker 1: to the form, Epstein was required to register within ten
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  Speaker 1: days after establishing residents in New Mexico. The form characterized
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  Speaker 1: Epstein as a temporary New Mexico resident with an address
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  Speaker 1: at Zoro Ranch. The form notes next appointment not scheduled.
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  Speaker 1: Have not received letter from DPS indicating that mister Epstein
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  Speaker 1: is not required to register in New Mexico. As part
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  Speaker 1: of the form, Epstein was required to acknowledge his sex
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  Speaker 1: offender responsibilities. His responsibilities in included a requirement that Epstein,
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  Speaker 1: in the event he intends to travel to another state
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  Speaker 1: or a country for more than ten days, notify the
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  Speaker 1: sheriff of the county he currently resides in and the
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  Speaker 1: state he'll be traveling too. On the same date, an
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  Speaker 1: offender questionnaire was completed for Epstein, although it does not
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  Speaker 1: appear he filled it out personally. The questionnaire required Epstein
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  Speaker 1: to identify all residents, ages of residence, and relation to
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  Speaker 1: the offender for the location where the offender is residing.
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  Speaker 1: No information was provided. The questionnaire also indicated that Epstein
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  Speaker 1: previously had been arrested in nineteen seventy three by New
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  Speaker 1: Scotland Yard London for unlawful possession of an offensive weapon
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  Speaker 1: a swordstick. Epstein indicated yes to the question has the
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  Speaker 1: offender ever lived with an adult lover male or female
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  Speaker 1: for at least two years and continuous with the same person.
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  Speaker 1: A table identifying Epstein's vehicles, two aircraft, four landlines twenty
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  Speaker 1: four and cell phones won was attached by letter dated
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  Speaker 1: August nineteenth, twenty ten. NMDPS advised Epstein that under the
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  Speaker 1: current NMSA nineteen Dash twenty nine Dash eleven A, he
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  Speaker 1: was not required to register with the State of New
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  Speaker 1: Mexico for his two thousand and eight conviction, but that
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  Speaker 1: he might be required to register under Title I of
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  Speaker 1: the Adam Walsh Child Protection and Safety Act of two
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  Speaker 1: thousand and six while he resides temporarily in New Mexico. Indeed,
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  Speaker 1: Epstein was not convicted of any other crimes specified in
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  Speaker 1: nm SA Section twenty nine Dash eleven A three E
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  Speaker 1: two thousand and nine, or their equivalents in any other jurisdiction.
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  Speaker 1: On the other hand, he was convicted of a crime
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  Speaker 1: in which some sexual act or sexual conduct is an element,
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  Speaker 1: and on the basis would appear to have been subject
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  Speaker 1: to federal SOORNA requirements. Under SOORNA, a sex offender shall
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  Speaker 1: appear in person, allow the jurisdiction to take a current
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  Speaker 1: photograph and verify the information in each registry in which
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  Speaker 1: that offender is required to be registered, not less frequently
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  Speaker 1: than one each year if the offender is a Tier
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  Speaker 1: one sex offender, two every six months if the offender
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  Speaker 1: is a Tier two sex offender, and three every three
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  Speaker 1: months if the offender is a Tier three sex offender.
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  Speaker 1: By letter dated May twenty first, twenty twelve, Indyke provided
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  Speaker 1: the detective with updated SONA notification information comprised of a
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  Speaker 1: spreadsheet listing Epstein's residences, vehicles, boats, aircraft, landlines, cell phone websites,
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  Speaker 1: Twitter accounts, and other social media accounts. By letter to
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  Speaker 1: the Detective dated July twenty second, twenty thirteen, in Dyke
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  Speaker 1: updated Epstein's SOORNA notification information with much the same information
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  Speaker 1: as the year before, although with a marked increase in
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  Speaker 1: the number of social media accounts. By letter dated April
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  Speaker 1: twenty seventh, twenty seventeen, the New York State Sex Offender
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  Speaker 1: Registry advised the NMDPS that Epstein had been assigned a
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  Speaker 1: risk Level three, meaning the risk to community is high.
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  Speaker 1: A comprehensive offender report dated July seventeenth, twenty nineteen, and
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  Speaker 1: issued to the Santa Fe County Sheriff's office noted that
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  Speaker 1: the offender is not required to register per stay law,
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  Speaker 1: but will be required to register per Adam Walsh when
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  Speaker 1: in MNM not releasable to WEB when registering. Between December
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  Speaker 1: twenty ten and July twenty fifteen, either Epstein personally or
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  Speaker 1: through his attorney in Dyke contacted the Santa Fe County
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  Speaker 1: Sheriff's Office on thirteen occasions to inform them that Epstein's
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  Speaker 1: intended presence in New Mexico. An internal Zoro Ranch document
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  Speaker 1: noted that Jeffrey must email the detective two days prior
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  Speaker 1: to going to the ranch. On April twenty fifth, twenty thirteen,
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  Speaker 1: in Dyke email Leslie Groff requesting make a note that
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  Speaker 1: any time he is scheduled to go to NM or PB,
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  Speaker 1: remind me two days before his scheduled departure to tell
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  Speaker 1: him to email Woods in Palm Beach and the detective
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  Speaker 1: in New Mexico. All contact was made with the detective.
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  Speaker 1: The Santa Fe County Sheriff's Office has provided no other
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  Speaker 1: information indicating that Epstein personally or through anyone else informed
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  Speaker 1: them of Epstein's intent to be in New Mexico. Documentation
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  Speaker 1: from The Santa Fe County Sheriff's Office shows they were
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  Speaker 1: informed of Epstein's presence in New Mexico as follows. December seventh,
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  Speaker 1: twenty ten to date unknown in Dyke advised by email
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  Speaker 1: that Epstein would be leaving New York and traveling to
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  Speaker 1: New Mexico on December seventh, twenty ten. February twenty fifth,
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  Speaker 1: twenty eleven. February twenty sixth to March second, twenty eleven,
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  Speaker 1: Epstein emailed, stating, Detective Anaya has promised. I told you
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  Speaker 1: I would notify you when I was again in New Mexico.
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  Speaker 1: I'll be there from Saturday, February twenty sixth to Wednesday,
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  Speaker 1: March second. You can call my cell if you have time.
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  Speaker 1: March fourth to March seventh, twenty eleven, Epstein advised by email,
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  Speaker 1: I've bad cold, so I returned to New Mexico tonight,
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  Speaker 1: staying until Monday afternoon. July seventh through seventeenth, twenty eleven.
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  Speaker 1: By email dated July seventh, twenty eleven, Epstein advised, I'll
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  Speaker 1: be out the ranch starting tomorrow for seven days. Hope
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  Speaker 1: you're well. February twenty first to March first, twenty twelve,
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  Speaker 1: in Dyke advised that Epstein would be traveling from New
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  Speaker 1: York to New Mexico on February twenty first, twenty twelve,
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  Speaker 1: and would be staying in New Mexico no more than
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  Speaker 1: eight days. July thirtieth to August twentieth, twenty twelve, Epstein emailed,
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  Speaker 1: advising Detective I'll be staying in Santa Fe for approximately
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  Speaker 1: three weeks starting next Monday the thirtieth. July thirty first
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  Speaker 1: to August thirty first, twenty twelve, Epstein emailed, advising I
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  Speaker 1: arrived in New Mexico. Will be in and out of
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  Speaker 1: the state for the next month. Hope things you're well.
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  Speaker 1: September fourteenth through eighteenth, twenty twelve, Epstein emailed, at an
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  Speaker 1: abundance of caution, I write to tell you that I
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  Speaker 1: arrived in New Mexico and I will leave on Tuesday
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  Speaker 1: the eighteenth. Hope you were well. February twenty third through
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  Speaker 1: twenty fifth, twenty thirteen, Epstein emailed, I'll be in New
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  Speaker 1: Mexico the twenty third through twenty fifth. Hope you were well.
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  Speaker 1: April twenty fifth through twenty ninth, Epstein emailed, I will
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  Speaker 1: be in New Mexico for four days. Hope you were well.
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  Speaker 1: August first through thirty first, twenty thirteen, Epstein emailed, I'll
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  Speaker 1: be in Santa Fe from Thursday, August first to August
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  Speaker 1: thirty first, Hope you were well. December twentieth through twenty eighth,
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  Speaker 1: twenty thirteen, Epstein emailed, happy holiday again. Out of an
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  Speaker 1: abundance of caution, please be advised that I'll be in
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  Speaker 1: New Mexico for the week of the twentieth through twenty eighth.
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  Speaker 1: Happy holiday. August first through the thirty first, twenty fifteen,
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  Speaker 1: Epstein emailed, as an extra precaution, I'm letting you know
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  Speaker 1: that I'll be on my ranch for the month of August.
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  Speaker 1: Hope you were well. Epstein was subsequently removed from the
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  Speaker 1: NM registry just two days after registering because it's conviction
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  Speaker 1: involved a victim over sixteen, New Mexico's age of consent.
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  Speaker 1: The New Mexico Legislature introduced HB four to forty five
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  Speaker 1: in twenty twenty six to close this loophole. The Truth
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  Speaker 1: Commission intends to do so in future legislation. For the
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  Speaker 1: General session of twenty twenty seven, there's evidence that Epstein
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  Speaker 1: appeared in the Santa Fe County Sheriff's Office on August seventeenth,
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  Speaker 1: twenty ten, to complete his initial sex offender registration. However,
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  Speaker 1: the Commission has yet to locate any evidence showing that
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  Speaker 1: Epstein appeared in person to allow the Santa Fe County
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  Speaker 1: Sheriff's Office to take a current photograph and verify the
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  Speaker 1: information in each registry in which that offender is required
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  Speaker 1: to be registered each year or more frequently as may
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  Speaker 1: have been required under SONA through the local New Mexico attorney.
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  Speaker 1: Epstein acknowledged after his first registration the follow up annual
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  Speaker 1: registration appearance must be made before December thirty first of
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  Speaker 1: each calendar year beginning December thirty first to tienty eleven.
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  Speaker 1: If Jeffrey Epstein in that calendar year, follow up annual
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  Speaker 1: registration appearances do not appear to have been made. All right, folks,
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  Speaker 1: We're gonna wrap up right here, and in the next
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  Speaker 1: episode dealing with the topic, we're gonna pick up where
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  Speaker 1: we left off. All the information that goes with this
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