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The Paper Trail Begins: New Mexico's Epstein Truth Commission Receives Subpoenaed Records (7/3/26) · 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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  Epstein Chronicles. The investigation into Jeffrey Epstein continues to heat
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  up down in New Mexico, and now we're starting to
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  see some material from the subpoenas that were fired off
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  start to come back in and it's going to be
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  real interesting to see just how forthcoming these folks are.
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  I mean, you have a lot of institutions that are
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  getting hit with the subpoenas that don't want to talk
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  about Jeffrey Epstein, and they've done their level best throughout
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  the years to make sure that that didn't occur. But
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  now they're getting hit with a subpoena, they're going to
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  have to, at the very least make pretend they're playing
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  the game. But as we've seen previously, that's exactly what
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  it is to a lot of these people, a game,
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  and unfortunately, Congress has let them play their games. So
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  I wonder if this commission in New Mexico is going
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  to attempt to really get down to the bottom of
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  what happened. And look, I hope that's the case, and
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  I hope that this commission is going to dig as
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  deep as they can well, considering the history that we're
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  dealing with here. I'm not putting the cart before the horse.
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  We need to see some tangible results. Right. It's one
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  thing to talk a big game, it's a whole less
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  other thing to actually do it. And today we have
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  an article from the Santa Fe New Mexican and the
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  headline subpoena materials starts flowing to Epstein Truth Commission. This
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  article was authored by Clara Bates. Responding to a subpoena
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  issued by the Zoro Truth Commission became an all consuming
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  task for the small staff of New Mexico's State Historical Archive. Boy,
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  we've heard that story before. Huh oh, we don't have
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  the proper staffing, not enough people. We can't get through
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  all this work. Well, that's what we heard from the
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  DOJ down here in the New Mexico State Records Office.
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  They just got to work. Over about two weeks in June,
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  staff at the New Mexico State Record Center and Archives,
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  which houses historical records of prior governors, looked through hundreds
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  of thousands of pages in two hundred and thirty boxes,
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  and searched millions of online records. The commission had requested
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  records related to former governor Bill Richardson, who had ties
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  to Jeffrey Epstein, the wealthy sex offender who owned the
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  sprawling Zoro ranch in southern Santa Fe County from nineteen
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  ninety three until his death in twenty nineteen. And let's
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  be clear, they weren't just buddies. Bill Richardson has been
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  credibly accused of taking part in the abuse. And for
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  all those people out there that all of a sudden
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  believed Virginia that were nowhere to be seen previously, By
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  the way, how come you didn't have anything to say
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  when Bill Richardson was working with the Biden administration to
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  try to bring Britney Griner home. I called it out
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  at the time because Bill Richardson is a piece of shit,
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  And I believe my friend Virginia when she says that
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  he assaulted her. So where were all these left wing
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  pundits then, all these people that have made a living
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  talking about Epstein for the past year, all them clowns
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  were mia when the battle was being waged in the trenches.
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  Oh it's easy to come in afterwards, right, but you
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  were never on the front line. And if you would
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  have listened when Virginia was telling you this years ago,
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  maybe we could have had justice. So keep that shit
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  in mind when you're looking to assign blame. It's so
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  big and important that we want to make sure we're
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  doing due diligence, Jonathan Pringle, director of the Archives and
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  Historical Services Division, said in an interview on Wednesday, adding
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  that he thinks the staff have callouses on their thumbs
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  from flipping through the pages. All five staff members in
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  the State Archives help come through the boxes, he said, well, good.
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  All that information should be provided to the commission. Whatever
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  they're asking for they should get, especially if there's nothing
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  to hide, If nobody has anything to hide, and there
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  was no misdeeds done by anyone in power, then these
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  institutions should be happy to turn everything over. Oh yeah,
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  we got that. This proves that what was said is incorrect.
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  Here you go. But you notice they fight tooth and nel.
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  The last thing they want to do is be transparent.
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  You know how they say that the truth will set
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  you free. Not for them. They're allergic to the truth.
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  The tiny agency turned over one hundred and thirty two
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  responsive records. Pringle said those records, as he understands them,
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  included mainly routine administrative notes such as callback memos and
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  communication about travel, which may or may not not have
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  been specifically to any Epstein property. He said, well, good,
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  give them all the information, let them go through it,
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  and let's find out what's what. That's how an investigation works.
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  And as you can see over in the UK with
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  mister Mandelsson, everything I told you is coming true. They
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  opened the door with the Epstein files and then they
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  kicked that motherfucker in and now they're going to get
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  them for all kinds of espionage, all kinds of crazy shit.
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  And we have an episode coming up talking about it.
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  But man, that's how it works. You get somebody on
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  some you know, little picywn shit, some little small crime,
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  and then from there you give him a colonoscopy. And
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  that's how it's always worked, and that's how it's always
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  going to work. Those records are now in the hands
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  of the four person legislative Investigatory Committee looking into Epstein's
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  activities in the state. The State Archives was one of
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  about a dozen entities with a Tuesday deadline to respond
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  to the commission subpoenas. Representative Andrea Romero, the Commission chair,
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  said as of Wednesday, the panel that heard back from
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  nearly all the subpoenad organizations. Many are still in the
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  process to turn it over the record, she said, but
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  are clearly working to comply. And I wonder what the
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  penalty is if they don't comply, because we know when
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  it comes to the United States Congress there are no penalties.
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  People can say and do whatever they want, obviously, because
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  just about every single person that we've seen get up
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  there and give testimony has lied. No consequences, no follow up,
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  no referral, nothing. What we do know is that there
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  is just a vast amount of material that we need
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  to look through. We don't know at this point what
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  they are. The good thing is, in general, is that
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  our investigations underway at this point, Romero said, And yeah,
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  you got to start somehere, and I'm glad they started now.
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  It should have been a long time ago, and Zora
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  Ran should have been rated at the time that all
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  of this was going down. But better late than ever.
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  And it's much more than we're seeing in New York
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  or Florida, or down in the Virgin Islands or anywhere
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  else Epstein was active. So yeah, I'll give New Mexico
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  a tip of the cap. The only agencies the Commission
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  hadn't heard back from were federal the Federal Aviation Administration
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  and federal prosecutors in the Southern District of New York
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  and Florida. Of course, well, who's running the cover up,
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  the federal government, right, So why would they want to
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  give over these records to somebody who's not part of
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  their cover up. That doesn't make sense. So they're going
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  to fight at tooth and noel, there's no doubt in
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  my mind, and what they're going to rely on is
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  a loopholes and technicality strategy. That's what they're going to
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  rely on. Neither the FAA nor a Florida secutor has
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  responded to request for comment. A spokesperson from the New
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  York office declined to comment. The Commission is seeking EPSTEIN
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  flight logs along with investigative files of the prosecutor's offices.
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  Should be easy stuff to turn over, right, especially considering
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  that we have the EFTA law going right now. You
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  think they'd want to be in compliance. You'd think wrong,
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  because once again the DOJ they're going to do whatever
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  they want to do under this administration, and unfortunately, up
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  until this point, at least there's nothing anyone can do
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  about it other than the Record Center. The other organizations
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  which have either turned over the information or are in
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  the process of doing so, according to the Truth Commission,
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  aer the New Mexico Department of Justice, US Attorney's Office
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  for New Mexico Governor's Office, Santa Fe County Sheriff's Office,
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  Public Regulation Commission, Department of Public Safety, Regulation and Licensing Department,
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  the Santa Fe Institute, New Mexico State Land Office. Now,
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  the Santa Fe Institute's interesting because, as I've told you,
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  they threw me directly off that campus. It's like they
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  knew I was coming. Maybe Jeffrey Epstein and his buddies
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  called them after I was over at Zoro Ranch and
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  they were like, you know what, You're gonna have some
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  company soon, because the second I got on that campus,
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  all right, maybe not the second, but it wasn't long
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  before I was approached and told to leave. Several agencies,
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  including the Regulation and Licensing Department and the Department of
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  Public Safety, are in the process or responding to the subpoenas,
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  but have been in touch with the Commission and granted
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  informal extensions. The Santa Fe Institute sought and was granted
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  an extension until July thirteenth. Romero said, why see, this
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  is the kind of shit I don't like. If there's
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  a date that you have to turn over the information,
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  then that's the date the information should be turned over.
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  Why are we getting all these different extensions in shit?
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  Representative Marianna Anaya of Albuquerque, wh who's a member of
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  the Commission, said the agency is asking for more time,
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  seemed to be working hard to gather the documents. There
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  were some entities who I think probably knew that they
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  were going to be subpoena and I do believe that
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  they probably started getting stuff together a little bit earlier.
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  And then there are other entities that are asking for
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  small extensions, And I think that's a sign of good
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  faith that people are actually trying to get documents together
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  instead of just saying, oh, here's what we think we have.
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  Anaya said on this week's episode of Around the Roundhouse,
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  the political podcast hosted by The New Mexican The subpoenas
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  are broad and extensive, seeking records each of the organizations
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  hold about Epstein and disassociates activities in New Mexico. The
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  Truth Commission has said the subpoenas will help them get
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  the big picture understanding of Epstein's activities in the state
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  and gained the foundational knowledge necessary to begin asking questions
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  of individuals. Several other subpoenas have been issued and posted
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  on the Commission's website, including Deutsche Bank JP, Morgan Chase,
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  and additional federal prosecutors offices, with response deadlines. Of July seventeenth,
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  a total of twenty subpoenas had been posted publicly on
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  the Truth Commission's website. From the banks, the Commission has
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  requested all documents in data related to Epstein and disassociated LLC's,
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  including monthly statements and suspicious activity reports, from federal prosecutors
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  in the Eastern and Western District of Michigan and the
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  District of South Carolina and the Virgin Islands. The Commissions
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  requesting all investigative files related to Epstein and his associates,
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  documents surrounding decisions not to prosecute Epstein, and any information
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  or documents about Zoro Ranch. The Commission has said it
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  plans to hold a July meeting where it will discuss
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  responses to the subpoenas, the date of which has not
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  yet been announced. The House resolution that created the commission
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  calls for an interim report due July thirty first, with
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  a final report due at the end of the year.
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  So things are moving down in New Mexico, and once
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  we get some more information about what's been turned over,
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  we'll definitely get that added to the catalog as well,
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  But until then, that's going to do it for this one.
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