1982 – 1983 Robert Maxwell selling Promis software (with backdoor supplied by Israel, unknown to clients) to Sandia National Laboratories and Los Alamos National Laboratories, the two biggest nuclear weapons labs in the United States.
1993: Jeffrey Epstein bought the New Mexico Zorro Ranch using his Power of Attorney, John J. Kelly, a Democrat.
Governor Bruce King – a Democrat, sold the ranch to Jeffrey Epstein.
The late pedophile appeared to confirm as much in a 2015 email that was released last month as part of a massive Epstein files dump.
In the email, Epstein attached a link to Norwegian cosmetics heiress Celina Midelfart, followed by the message: “My 20-year-old girlfriend in ’93, that after two years i gave to donald.”
Jeffrey Epstein writes in an email that
In September, the Wall Street Journal published a sexually suggestive birthday letter dedicated to Epstein that was illustrated and signed by Trump. The message, encased in a doodle of a woman’s body, made several references to a “wonderful secret” the two of them shared.
Les Wexner had been bank rolling Jeffrey Epstein since 1987 as his ‘financial manager’.
1996
Annie and Maria Farmer
Epstein victim’s sister reported him in 1996 but FBI failed to investigate, files show
Maria Farmer testified at 2021 trial of Ghislaine Maxwell, the accomplice of the dead paedophile financier
Annie Farmer was abused by Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell at age 16. Photograph: Gabriele Holtermann/PA
Victoria Bekiempis
Sun Dec 21 2025 – 20:25•5 MIN READ
While US president Donald Trump’s justice department did not deliver on a legal requirement to disclose all Jeffrey Epstein-related files by Friday, one document in an otherwise underwhelming disclosure lifted the veil on authorities’ inaction – and its dire consequences for dozens of teen girls.
That document is an FBI report from Maria Farmer, a painter who worked for Epstein around 1996.
Farmer, whose sister Annie Farmer was abused by Epstein and his accomplice Ghislaine Maxwell at age 16, told authorities in 1996 that the late financier “stole” nude images of her siblings.
Farmer reported Epstein’s behaviour with photographs, but the FBI has never openly recognised that she made such a report, according to the New York Times. The newspaper also noted how an internal investigation into the justice department’s handling of Epstein’s case did not mention this report.
April 11, 2026 New Mexico investigative journalist broke this news:
Breaking News Exclusive: The U.S. Attorney Who Should Have Investigated Jeffrey Epstein for Sexually Abusing 16-Year-Old Annie Farmer in 1996 in New Mexico Was Epstein’s Personal POA for Zorro Ranch.
Former U.S. attorney for the District of New Mexico John J. Kelly was Epstein’s personal Power of Attorney on Zorro Ranch matters. This has never been publicly disclosed until now.
That former federal prosecutor was John J. Kelly, a prominent attorney in Albuquerque, New Mexico who served as the U.S. attorney for the District of New Mexico from 1993 to 2000. In 2024, Kelly was asked by a local news outlet why his contact information appeared in Epstein’s contact directory, often referred to as Epstein’s “little black book.”
On July 8, 2012, King announced on an Albuquerque radio show that he would seek the Democratic nomination for governor in 2014. He challenged first-term incumbent governor Susana Martinez (R) for the office. He ran twice previously for the governorship, in 1998 and 2002, losing the first in the primary and dropping out in the second.[3] King lost in the general election on November 4, 2014.
Immediately after graduating from law school, King formed his own private practice law firm, King & Stanley, based in Moriarty, New Mexico. Six years later, he assumed the dual roles of corporate general counsel and senior environment scientist for Advanced Sciences, Inc., an environmental consulting firm. In 1998, King was appointed as the policy advisor to the Assistant Secretary for Environmental Management at the United States Department of Energy (DOE) in Washington, D.C. Within a year’s time, he became Director of the Office of Worker and Community Transition. During his time at the DOE, he developed and implemented a program fostering cooperation between federal, state, local and Native American governments to enhance cleanup activities.
Gary King’s father, Bruce, who sold the Zorro Ranch to Epstein, was researched by Daniel Greenfield – see above link.
Here is an extract:
Former Gov. Bruce King had been a power player in the state from the 50s through the 90s. During his final years in office, Gov. King sold what would become the Zorro Ranch to Jeffrey Epstein for $12 million. The deal with the governor gave Epstein his own compound, airstrip, and grazing rights around it, to keep Zorro as isolated as possible, allowing him to fly in guests and girls with no questions.
The sale was stranger still because the land around the Zorro Ranch, where Epstein would reportedly hold lavish parties featuring major New Mexico political figures, and bring teenage girls there to abuse, went on belonging to the King family.
Unlike New York and Florida, Epstein had no ties to New Mexico and no obvious reason to build a compound there. Santa Fe was much farther from the action than Palm Beach or Manhattan. But Epstein didn’t just buy land from anyone, he bought it from the man running the state longer than anyone else and a member of the most influential family in the state. Shortly after the governor left office, his son, Gary King, already a state legislator, went to work under Bill Richardson, the state’s future governor, before going on to become New Mexico’s Attorney General.
Jeffrey Epstein provided sizable donations to both Gary King and Bill Richardson. When the first phase of the Epstein scandal broke, Gary King was forced to return $15,000 in donations from the notorious sex predator. “I don’t think I’ve ever met him personally. He knows other members of my family better,” King claimed.
Look back to pre 2016, Conchita Sarnoff’s book, TrafficKing:
TrafficKing
TrafficKing yanks back the curtain on an underworld where children pay the ultimate price as victims. The story explores the darkest recesses of the corridors of power, from Harvard to the White House. Conchita Sarnoff, an investigative journalist, who despite bribes to stay silent, risked her life to expose the brutal reality of human trafficking and the Jeffrey E. Epstein case. Epstein, at the center of the saga, is a pedophile billionaire and Wall Street hedge fund manager and registered level-3 sex offender. It is a child sex trafficking story of epic proportions and the longest running human trafficking case in U.S. legal history; more poignant than the Lewinsky Scandal, Watergate Scandal and Profumo Affair combined. His team of attorneys included: Alan Dershowitz, Kenneth Starr, Roy Black and Gerald Lefcourt. HRH Prince Andrew, former President Bill Clinton, Alan Dershowitz and others were implicated in the case. A decade after Epstein’s arrest, Virginia Roberts Giuffre vs. Ghislaine Maxwell is pending, along with two more related cases. It’s a tug of war between lust and power and decency and human rights. The revelations in this book could have serious implications in the upcoming 2016 Presidential elections.
And when Ghislaine brought Jeffrey to New Mexico to, as she puts it, help him find a nice ranch property, they just happened to settle upon one that was already owned by the governor, that also sat next door to a ranch owned by a former U.S. intelligence operative turned weapons engineer and founder of Teledyne, a huge defense contracting company. And when Ghislaine helped Jeffrey build the massive 33,000-square-foot house of horrors there, the construction contractor they hired was Bradbury Stamm, which specializes in massive industrial, government and top security military and nuclear weapons laboratory builds, not private residences.
A later governor of New Mexico, Bill Richardson, would party at Zorro Ranch with Epstein, and not just there, but also in New York, and at Epstein’s island, Little St. James. Richardson flew on Epstein’s plane and helicopter both, and denied all of this, just as he denied Virginia Giuffre’s allegations that Jeffrey made her “massage” Richardson. But the release of the files last year and this year proved his denials were lies. As were the similar denials of Bruce King’s son Gary King, who Epstein supported financially in his winning bid to become New Mexico’s attorney general, and as attorney general King never investigated Epstein. In fact, he continued to meet privately with Epstein even after his conviction in Florida, and took more campaign donations from him in his losing bid for governor, working with Epstein’s lawyers to create a shell company so no one would know the donations came from the most famous pedophile and child sex trafficker of all time, which might have hurt Gary’s campaign as that campaign hinged on ending child sex trafficking in our state.
Evidence uncovered in New Mexico may help solve at least one disappearance linked to missing scientists
Story by Chadwick Moore
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Employees at top secret government labs have suddenly disappeared without a trace across the US, leaving many questioning how and why it has happened.
The circumstances in certain cases have been eerily similar, with three people who all worked in New Mexico suddenly leaving their houses on foot without taking wallets, IDs or essentials with them. A fourth person, an aerospace engineer in California, disappeared on a hiking trail, feet away from her friends.
As of today, I’ve identified a potential fourteenth: Ingrid Coleen Lane. No other news outlet has yet tied her disappearance to the others. That’s probably because in news stories and press releases, Lane has only been described as 37-year-old married bipolar Buddhist musician struggling with her mental health. But that’s been an incomplete portrait of Lane, who was also a bioengineer and neuroscientist with the Mind Research Network at the Univ. of New Mexico, who also worked at or with Sandia and Los Alamos labs. Lane’s husband, Louis Scuderi, is an astrophysicist contracted through the Department of Defense, who builds directed energy weapons software for the Air Force at Kirtland Air Force Base, next door to Sandia Labs. He has published several research papers about earth-like planets near other stars.
When taken in the context of the unfolding story of other missing scientists, these omissions in the official story of Lane’s disappearance are as mysterious as the disappearance itself.
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2023 Obituary Bill Richardson, here is a relevant extract:
Worked as the secretary of energy under Bill Clinton
Richardson worked as secretary of energy under the Clinton Administration from 1998 to 2000. Voice of America reported that Richardson’s tenure was “troubled” because of an incident involving missing computer equipment containing nuclear weapons secrets at the Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico.
The government also was investigating former nuclear weapons scientist Wen Ho Lee, according to Voice of America. In 1999, Richardson fired Lee, who later pleaded guilty to mishandling computer fires.(sic)
Retired, living in the Scottish Borders after living most of my life in cities in England. I can now indulge my interest in all aspects of living close to nature in a wild landscape. I live on what was once the Iapetus Ocean which took millions of years to travel from the Southern Hemisphere to here in the Northern Hemisphere. That set me thinking and questioning and seeking answers.
In 1998 I co-wrote Millennium Countdown (US)/ A Business Guide to the Year 2000 (UK) see https://www.abebooks.co.uk/products/isbn/9780749427917
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