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发布于 2026年7月9日美国东部时间下午1:14
联邦机构 爱泼斯坦相关文件
新墨西哥州总检察长劳尔·托雷斯（左）与代理司法部长托德·布兰奇。
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新墨西哥州总检察长劳尔·托雷斯指责美国司法部拒绝提供与已故定罪性犯罪者杰弗里·爱泼斯坦相关的未编辑文件，称这种不合作态度正阻碍该州为受害者伸张正义。
“美国司法部每天扣留这些记录，本可支撑新墨西哥州提起诉讼的基础就会逐日削弱，”托雷斯在6月30日写给代理司法部长托德·布兰奇的一封措辞严厉的信中写道，该信于周四公开。“证人会搬迁，变得无法联系。因多年创伤本已模糊的记忆会进一步消退。随着时间推移，实物和书面证据会变质、丢失，或更难进行真伪鉴定。”
托雷斯的这封信是对美国司法部处理爱泼斯坦案件的最新批评。去年年底，国会通过一项两党法案，迫使司法部公布与这名性 trafficker 相关的文件。
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新墨西哥州正在调查爱泼斯坦在圣达菲附近拥有的名为“佐罗牧场”的房产相关的非法活动指控。
今年2月，在美国司法部公布数百万份与爱泼斯坦相关的文件后，该刑事调查重新启动。这些文件中包含一名当地电台主持人收到的2019年电子邮件，邮件声称“在佐罗牧场外的某处山丘上，两名外国女孩按照杰弗里和G夫人的命令被掩埋”。这一指控未经证实，目前也不清楚在最近重新关注爱泼斯坦案之前，执法部门对该指控的调查程度如何。
包括尚泰·戴维斯和已故的弗吉尼亚·吉弗雷在内的几名爱泼斯坦的受害者表示，这座牧场是他们遭受性侵犯的地点之一。
多名国会议员批评美国司法部2025年12月开始公布的爱泼斯坦相关文件存在大量编辑内容，美国司法部内部监察机构正在审查该编辑流程。
据众议院司法委员会排名成员、民主党众议员杰米·拉斯金称，部分国会议员获准查看未编辑的文件，但他们必须“前往司法部附属机构，坐在四台司法部自有电脑中的一台前，使用司法部提供的笨拙且复杂的软件系统，在司法部工作人员的监视下搜索和阅读文件”。
2025年3月8日，新墨西哥州斯坦利附近的佐罗牧场航拍画面，该牧场曾为杰弗里·爱泼斯坦所有。
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在托雷斯上周的信中，他列出了新墨西哥州司法部办公室六次联系联邦机构的尝试，包括2月13日提出的文件调取请求，以及上月托雷斯访问华盛顿特区期间安排面对面会议的努力。
“尽管美国司法部口头保证会合作，但我们始终未能获取所请求的记录，也未收到任何实质性回复，自新墨西哥州司法部最初提出请求以来，已经过去了130多天，”托雷斯写道。“在任何合理规则下，新墨西哥州司法部都认为这段时间的拖延是不合理的。”
作为刑事调查的一部分，新墨西哥州当局于3月搜查了佐罗牧场。
此外，该州设有一个名为“新墨西哥州受害者真相委员会”的特别立法小组，该小组也在调查佐罗牧场案。上个月，该委员会向多家银行、多个美国检察官办公室以及托雷斯和新墨西哥州州长米歇尔·卢汉·格里沙姆的办公室发出传票，要求提供相关信息。
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New Mexico attorney general says DOJ is withholding ‘critical’ information related to Epstein’s Zorro Ranch
2026-07-09T17:14:24.842Z / CNN
By Kaanita Iyer
2 hr ago
PUBLISHED Jul 9, 2026, 1:14 PM ET
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New Mexico Attorney General Raúl Torrez, left, and Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche.
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New Mexico Attorney General Raúl Torrez is accusing the US Justice Department of withholding access to unredacted files related to late convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, arguing that the lack of cooperation is preventing the state from bringing justice to survivors.
“Every day that the USDOJ withholds these records, the foundation upon which a New Mexico prosecution could be built erodes,” Torrez wrote in a scathing letter to Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche on June 30 that was publicly released on Thursday. “Witnesses relocate and become unreachable. Memories, already strained by years of trauma, fade further. Physical and documentary evidence degrades, is lost, or is rendered more difficult to authenticate with the passage of time.”
Torrez’s letter marks the latest criticism of the US Justice Department’s handling of the Epstein case as Congress forced the department to release files related to the sex trafficker with a bipartisan bill late last year.
CNN has reached out to the US Justice Department for comment.
New Mexico is investigating allegations of illegal activity surrounding the property Epstein owned near Santa Fe, known as Zorro Ranch.
The criminal probe was reopened in February after the US DOJ’s release of millions of files related to Epstein, which included a 2019 email received by a local radio host that alleged that “somewhere in the hills outside the Zorro, two foreign girls were buried on orders of Jeffrey and Madam G.” That allegation is unverified, but it is also not clear to what extent it had been investigated by law enforcement before the recent renewed interest in Epstein.
Some of Epstein’s survivors, including Chauntae Davies and the late Virginia Giuffre, have said the ranch was one of the places where they were sexually assaulted.
Several lawmakers criticized the heavy redactions in the Epstein files the DOJ began releasing in December 2025, and the US DOJ’s internal watchdog is reviewing the redaction process.
Some members of Congress have been allowed to view the unredacted documents but they had to “travel to a DOJ annex, sit at one of four DOJ-owned computers, use a clunky and convoluted software system provided by DOJ, and search for and read documents while DOJ staffers look over our shoulders,” according to Democratic Rep. Jamie Raskin, the ranking member of the House Judiciary Committee.
A drone view shows Zorro Ranch, a property formerly owned by Jeffrey Epstein, near Stanley, New Mexico, on March 8.
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In last week’s letter, Torrez outlined six attempts from the New Mexico DOJ office to reach the federal agency, including a February 13 request for documents and an effort last month to set up an in-person meeting during Torrez’s visit to Washington, DC.
“Despite verbal assurances of cooperation from the USDOJ, access to the requested records has not been granted, no substantive response has been provided, and more than 130 days have now elapsed since the (New Mexico Department of Justice’s) initial request,” Torrez wrote. “The NMDOJ views this length of time as an unreasonable delay under any rule of reason.”
As part of the criminal investigation, New Mexico authorities searched Zorro Ranch in March.
Separately, the state has a special legislative panel called “The New Mexico Survivor’s Truth Commission,” which is also investigating Zorro Ranch. Last month, the committee subpoenaed multiple banks, several US Attorneys offices, as well as the offices of Torrez and New Mexico Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham, for information.
CNN’s Hannah Rabinowitz, Michael Williams, MJ Lee, Nicky Robertson and Holmes Lybrand contributed to this report.
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