New Mexico Accuses the DOJ of Withholding Critical Zorro Ranch Evidence (7/10/26)

New Mexico Accuses the DOJ of Withholding Critical Zorro Ranch Evidence (7/10/26)

New Mexico Attorney General Raúl Torrez is accusing the Justice Department of obstructing the state’s reopened criminal investigation into Jeffrey Epstein’s Zorro Ranch by refusing to provide complete, unredacted federal files. Torrez says the withheld material contains the names of survivors, witnesses, suspected co-conspirators and other people considered essential to determining what happened at the property south of Santa Fe. New Mexico requested the records in February 2026, when the state reopened an investigation that had originally been closed in 2019 at the request of federal prosecutors in New York. In a June 30 letter to Acting Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche, Torrez complained that the state had waited roughly 130 days without receiving the information investigators needed. The Justice Department disputes the accusation, saying it responded to New Mexico in June and remains willing to assist with the Zorro Ranch investigation or pursue any federal crimes uncovered by state authorities. Torrez, however, argues that the delay is especially damaging because investigators are already confronting the loss or deterioration of evidence, the passage of decades since the alleged crimes and complicated questions about jurisdiction. The ranch was sold in 2023, making the preservation and recovery of physical evidence even more difficult. Nearly five months after reopening the case, Torrez has announced no major findings, but his criticism makes clear that New Mexico officials believe federal secrecy is preventing them from identifying potential victims, witnesses and accomplices connected to Epstein’s activities at the ranch. to contact me: bobbycapucci@protonmail.com source: New Mexico attorney general says DOJ is withholding 'critical' information related to Epstein's Zorro Ranch [https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/new-mexico-attorney-general-says-doj-is-withholding-critical-information-related-to-epstein-s-zorro-ranch/ar-AA27zJoy?cvid=6a500ba1fc9043f4bce6dcda44fbd560]

Epstein Survivors Say That Lesley Groff Wasn't Honest With Congress (7/10/26)

Epstein survivors have publicly challenged Lesley Groff's testimony before Congress, arguing that her portrayal of herself as someone who knew nothing about Epstein's abuse operation is fundamentally incompatible with their experiences. During her June 2026 testimony, Groff described Epstein as a "master manipulator" who kept his criminal conduct hidden from her and insisted that she never knowingly scheduled appointments for minors or witnessed abuse. But several survivors told CNN and other outlets that Groff was far more deeply involved than she admitted, alleging that she arranged logistics, handled payments, possessed identifying documents that would have revealed victims' ages, and was present during key moments in Epstein's operation. For the survivors, the issue is not simply whether Groff knew every detail of Epstein's crimes; it is that they believe her testimony minimizes her role and rewrites history. Some of the women have said they directly interacted with Groff, received money from her, or provided her with personal information, making her claims of ignorance difficult for them to accept. Their criticism has been echoed by some lawmakers, who openly questioned the plausibility that someone who spent nearly two decades as Epstein's executive assistant, scheduling his daily activities and coordinating travel and "massages," remained entirely unaware of what was happening around her. Groff and her attorney continue to stand by her testimony, but for many survivors, her appearance before Congress was another example of an Epstein insider distancing herself from the operation rather than fully accounting for what she saw and did during those years. to contact me: bobbycapucci@protonmail.com

Mega Edition: Prince Andrew And The Royal Dressing Down At Balmoral By Mummy (7/10/26)

Prince Andrew’s bond with Queen Elizabeth II was always treated as one of the great protected relationships inside the House of Windsor. He was widely described as her favorite child, and even as the Epstein scandal shredded his public standing, the Queen repeatedly appeared reluctant to fully cast him out. Reporting has described her standing by him after his disastrous 2019 BBC Newsnight interview, allowing him to step back from duties rather than immediately stripping him of everything, and later permitting him to remain Duke of York and a prince while the scandal continued to metastasize. Even in 2022, after Andrew had settled Virginia Giuffre’s civil case without admitting liability, the Queen chose him to escort her into Prince Philip’s memorial service — a public gesture that was widely read as motherly protection at the exact moment the institution should have been running from him. That “special relationship” is what made the Balmoral episode so revealing. In September 2020, Queen Elizabeth reportedly summoned Andrew to Balmoral for crisis talks over Jeffrey Epstein, with Andrew leaving Windsor for the Scottish Highlands to brief his mother after another summer of damaging revelations. The reports said the Queen wanted to be kept informed, that “so much” had come out, and that Andrew’s Epstein ties — including Virginia Giuffre’s allegations, his catastrophic BBC explanations, and his alleged lack of cooperation with U.S. investigators — were still poisoning the monarchy. The image is damning: not a disgraced royal facing full institutional accountability, but a protected son being called in for a private family reckoning with “mummy” at Balmoral. And that has always been the central problem with Andrew — the scandal was never just about his relationship with Epstein; it was about how long royal privilege softened the consequences. to contact me: bobbycapucci@protonmail.com

Mega Edition: How Prince Andrew Passed The Buck When it Comes To His Settlement With Virginia (7/10/26)

Queen Elizabeth’s role in Prince Andrew’s settlement with Virginia Giuffre was never formally laid out in court, because the financial terms were sealed, but reporting at the time said she helped Andrew get the deal done. The settlement, announced in February 2022, ended Giuffre’s civil sexual-abuse lawsuit against Andrew without any admission of liability, and it included a “substantial donation” to Giuffre’s charity. Multiple reports put the overall figure around £12 million, with some reporting that the Queen contributed money toward the settlement or the charity portion of it. That matters because it reinforced the perception that Andrew was not simply a disgraced man trying to resolve his own legal exposure; he was still being cushioned by the institution around him, and by a mother who had protected him for decades. Even after Andrew lost his military titles and royal patronages, the image left behind was unmistakable: the monarchy had cut him loose publicly, but the family was still helping clean up the wreckage privately. Then-Prince Charles’s role was more complicated and more political. He was widely reported to have been central to the internal royal push to remove Andrew from public life, strip him of official duties, and prevent the Epstein scandal from dragging the monarchy into the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee year. In that sense, Charles was not acting like Andrew’s rescuer in public; he was acting like the future king trying to contain a reputational catastrophe before it swallowed the institution. Later reporting has disputed or denied claims that Charles personally contributed to the settlement money, including a 2026 denial from a source close to King Charles that he helped fund the payout. But whether he paid into it or not, Charles’s institutional role was clear: Andrew had become radioactive, the case had to be settled before depositions and discovery did more damage, and the monarchy needed the scandal shut down before it reached deeper into the palace machinery. The settlement protected Andrew from trial, but it also protected the Crown from the spectacle of a prince being dragged through open court over Jeffrey Epstein. to contact me: bobbycapucci@protonmail.com

Mega Edition: The Epstein OIG Reports Were Meant To Set The Record Straight. They Failed (7/9/26)

The OIG/DOJ reviews into Jeffrey Epstein’s death and the sweetheart non-prosecution agreement gave the public a mountain of procedure, but not the kind of definitive answers the case demanded. On Epstein’s death, the OIG documented serious and undeniable failures at MCC New York: Epstein was left without the cellmate he was supposed to have, required rounds and counts were not done, records were falsified, his cell was not properly searched, and the camera system around the SHU was riddled with failures that left investigators with limited recorded video evidence. The report still accepted the broader conclusion that there was no criminality connected to how Epstein died, but that conclusion rested on a broken record: missing video, falsified paperwork, asleep or negligent guards, institutional chaos, and interviews with people who had every reason to protect themselves. The problem is not that the OIG found no failures; it found plenty. The problem is that the most important questions were filtered through the least reliable environment imaginable — a jail unit full of misconduct, self-preservation, memory holes, and conveniently useless answers. The same weakness hangs over the review of the Epstein NPA. The DOJ’s Office of Professional Responsibility concluded that Alex Acosta showed “poor judgment” and resolved the federal investigation before key investigative steps were completed, but it stopped short of the kind of institutional reckoning the deal deserved. That matters because the NPA was not some ordinary plea agreement; it ended a federal sex-crimes investigation, shielded Epstein’s alleged co-conspirators, kept victims in the dark, and became the central symbol of how power protected Epstein when the government had him dead to rights. The later transcripts and testimony only sharpen the point: when officials and insiders were pressed on what happened, the answers too often collapsed into “I don’t recall,” “I don’t know,” “I can’t speak to that,” and other forms of bureaucratic fog. That is not a reliable foundation for closure. It is the sound of a system investigating itself after the witnesses, lawyers, prosecutors, jail staff, and decision-makers had already learned that the safest answer in the Epstein universe was not the truth — it was amnesia. to contact me: bobbycapucci@protonmail.com