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Speaker 1: It has not been independently verified, and it came from

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Speaker 1: anonymous allegations that surfaced years ago. But now the story

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Speaker 1: has gained attention once again, and you have New Mexico

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Speaker 1: state investigators launching a new search of the former Zoro Ranch,

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Speaker 1: which is a remote property which was once owned by

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Speaker 1: Jeffrey Epstein, and they are searching that property now. The

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Speaker 1: search began under the direction of the New Mexico Attorney

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Speaker 1: General's Office earlier this week, and they have reopened criminal

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Speaker 1: investigation into alleged abuses and possible wrongdoings that happened at

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Speaker 1: that ranch before Epstein's death in twenty nineteen. Prosecutors say

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Speaker 1: there's new information that has come out from previously sealed

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Speaker 1: FBI files and that prompted the decision to take another look. Yeah.

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Speaker 2: What I find interesting about this is while there are

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Speaker 2: some agents from the Department of Justice involved in this,

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Speaker 2: this was really driven by what they're calling a truth

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Speaker 2: commission that was set up by local lawmakers in New

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Speaker 2: Mexico last month to find out exactly what happened at

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Speaker 2: the former Epstein ranch called it's called Zoro. So again

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Speaker 2: fascinating in this that it's the state officials that are

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Speaker 2: driving this and not the federal officials investigating.

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Speaker 1: So the ranch, it's located about thirty miles south of

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Speaker 1: Santa Fe and it was purchased by Epstein in nineteen

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Speaker 1: ninety three, and it was later sold by his estate

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Speaker 1: in twenty three to a family, and there are different

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Speaker 1: owners now they're cooperating with the search. But could you

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Speaker 1: imagine buying that property and then all of this happens,

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Speaker 1: and all of the sudden, you've got these FBI officials

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Speaker 1: and they're now searching your property for a nefarious activity

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Speaker 1: that could have taken place before you even owned it.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I'd be like, flip it, we're out, get me

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Speaker 2: out of although I would assume I don't know when

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Speaker 2: the new owners purchased it, but twenty three, twenty twenty three,

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Speaker 2: so they certainly knew all about this. They had all

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Speaker 2: the information that they knew that, you know, it was

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Speaker 2: one time owned by Jeffrey Epstein. And by the way,

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Speaker 2: Jeffrey Epstein killed himself in twenty nineteen, so it was

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Speaker 2: four years after that. Certainly a lot of discussion about it.

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Speaker 2: I probably I'm gonna guess that they thought, oh, you

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Speaker 2: know what, this is a beautiful place, and because it's

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Speaker 2: so scandalous and notorious, we probably get a good deal

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Speaker 2: on it. Yeah, and now you've got federal investigators and

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Speaker 2: state investigators combing all your property looking at your previous crimes. Yeah,

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Speaker 2: maybe that.

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Speaker 1: Was it a good deal.

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Speaker 2: Maybe not a good deal. I find the other interesting

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Speaker 2: part of this is, I think so much talk and

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Speaker 2: rightly so, is about Epstein Island and a little bit

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Speaker 2: of talk about his mansion in New York. This is

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Speaker 2: kind of the property that he owned in the country

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Speaker 2: where allegedly a lot of nasty stuff happened there. But

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Speaker 2: we don't talk about it very much. It's not talked

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Speaker 2: about very much, maybe because a lot of the documents

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Speaker 2: related to it we're sealed until just recently. Again, like

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Speaker 2: you said, it was the recently released documents that kind

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Speaker 2: of drove local authorities to put some more investigation into this.

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Speaker 1: It makes me want I'm gonna have to look up

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Speaker 1: as pan BONDI been subpoenaed, will she be testifying? That's gonna,

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Speaker 1: you know, add a new element the story. It's the

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Speaker 1: story that just keeps on going.