{"id":77031,"date":"2026-08-05T16:56:17","date_gmt":"2026-08-05T21:56:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/08\/05\/new-mexico-sues-justice-department-for-stonewalling-epstein-investigation\/"},"modified":"2026-08-05T16:56:17","modified_gmt":"2026-08-05T21:56:17","slug":"new-mexico-sues-justice-department-for-stonewalling-epstein-investigation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/08\/05\/new-mexico-sues-justice-department-for-stonewalling-epstein-investigation\/","title":{"rendered":"New Mexico sues justice department for \u2018stonewalling\u2019 Epstein investigation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Filing by attorney general Ra\u00fal Torrez comes after DoJ appears to have ignored deadline for key Epstein ranch files<\/p>\n<p>New Mexico filed a lawsuit against the US Department of Justice and acting attorney general, Todd Blanche, on Wednesday for \u201cstonewalling\u201d its criminal investigation into the activities of the late financier and sex offender Jeffrey Epstein at a remote ranch in the state.<\/p>\n<p>Ra\u00fal Torrez, the New Mexico attorney general, had said he was mulling the possibility of legal action if the justice department did not share with him by 31 July information about the alleged <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/feb\/08\/epstein-files-new-mexico-ranch\">historical abuse<\/a> of girls and young women at Epstein\u2019s Zorro ranch about 30 miles south of Santa Fe.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/aug\/05\/new-mexico-sues-doj-epstein-investigation\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Filing by attorney general Ra\u00fal Torrez comes after DoJ appears to have ignored deadline for key Epstein ranch files New Mexico filed a lawsuit against the US Department of Justice and acting attorney general, Todd Blanche, on Wednesday for \u201cstonewalling\u201d its criminal investigation into the activities of the late financier and sex offender Jeffrey Epstein &#8230; <a title=\"New Mexico sues justice department for \u2018stonewalling\u2019 Epstein investigation\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/08\/05\/new-mexico-sues-justice-department-for-stonewalling-epstein-investigation\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about New Mexico sues justice department for \u2018stonewalling\u2019 Epstein investigation\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-77031","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77031","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=77031"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77031\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77031"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77031"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77031"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}