Newly unsealed federal records reveal how a New Mexico sex trafficking investigation into Jeffrey Epstein's desert estate was dismantled from the inside, and how the Department of Justice that was supposed to pick up the case may have buried it instead.
Documents released under the Epstein Files Transparency Act, signed into law in November 2025, show that New Mexico state investigators handed police reports, recorded witness interviews and other evidence to federal prosecutors in 2019 on the promise of a coordinated, multistate prosecution that never arrived.
