All posts tagged "New Mexico"

CNN's Jake Tapper was stunned to hear New Mexico's attorney general suggest that a Trump official lied under oath.

During an interview with Tapper on Wednesday, New Mexico AG Raul Torrez discussed the Department of Justice's handling of records related to dead sex criminal Jeffrey Epstein's Zorro Ranch. Torrez filed a lawsuit against the DOJ on Wednesday after it ignored a deadline to hand those records over.

"They've never worked with us," Torrez said. "We asked for this information as a law enforcement agency. It's a very common practice for us to reach out to federal prosecutors and investigators and ask for the kinds of investigative files that are at issue here."...

The Department of Justice won't say if met a deadline to hand over records related to a property owned by the notorious child sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, The Guardian reported Saturday.

The Justice department did not confirm whether it met New Mexico Attorney General Raúl Torrez's July 31 deadline to share information about abuse at Epstein's Zorro Ranch, according to The Guardian.

Zorro Ranch is mentioned thousands of times in the Epstein files, along with numerous photos of men and young girls who stayed, according to The Guardian. ...

A wind-whipped wildfire on the Navajo Reservation in northwest New Mexico raged for a fourth day on Monday, forcing the evacuation of sheep-herding residents in the Chuska mountains, officials said, but no injuries were reported.

By Joseph J. Kolb

Vandals in New Mexico fired an arrow into a billboard warning that “Jesus is watching you.”

By Laura Zuckerman