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The attorney general of New Mexico announced Wednesday he is suing Jeffrey Epstein's former associates.
Raul Torrez accuses Epstein's ex-personal lawyer Darren Indyke and accountant Richard Kahn of covering up the perpetual pervert's sex trafficking at the infamous 10,000-acre Zorro Ranch in the Santa Fe area in the south-western desert state.
Torrez claimed both men were aware of the dirty operations and even used their positions and Epstein's wealth to conceal alleged abuse, WBAL TV reported.
The lawsuit filed by the New Mexico Department of Justice also named the estate of Jeffrey Epstein, estimated at more than $100 million and the 1953 Trust, which holds assets for the estate.
According to the department, Indyke and Kahn managed finances and authorized transactions related to trafficking activities, although both men testified the opposite in Congress.
Torrez further alleged that the two enriched themselves as he alleged that Indyke pocketed $16 million and Kahn received more than $10 million from Epstein between 2011 and 2019.
The suit aims to stop Indyke and Kahn from accepting any payments from the sex pest's estate as they 'stand to benefit substantially' from it for now.
'Those resources rightfully belong in the hands of survivors,' the attorney general said.
New Mexico attorney general Raul Torrez has launched a lawsuit against Jeffrey Epstein's former personal lawyer as well as against the sex pest's accountant, accusing both of concealing the sex trafficking operations that happened at the infamous Zorro Ranch
Darren Indyke (left) and Richard Kahn (right), longtime associates of the perpetual pervert
The remote ranch was reportedly home of Epstein's sex trafficking activities
Jeffrey Epstein had only been behind bars four months when a person who claimed to be on his staff at his Zorro ranch claimed to know the locations of two bodies buried in its grounds
Isolated in cactus and scrub-filled high desert 30 miles south of Santa Fe and equipped with its own airstrip, the ranch came with the advantage for Epstein that the state of New Mexico has a reputation of not asking too many questions of rich residents who demanded privacy.
New Mexico has also been notable for the laxness of its criminal laws.
It didn't recognize human trafficking as a crime until 2008 and, unlike other states where he had property, didn't require Epstein to register as a sex offender as the age of consent is lower, at 16, than elsewhere in the US.
A 60 Minutes Australia interview with Epstein survivors and investigators earlier this year unveiled some of the alleged abuse that occurred at the pedophile financier's sprawling property.
The ranch also made headlines in April after the Daily Mail revealed its darkest secrets.
Only four months after Epstein had been arrested in 2019, New Mexico local talk show host Eddy Aragon received a disturbing email.
The anonymous sender claimed to have been on the staff of the ranch and said they could reveal the location of the bodies of two young 'foreign' girls who'd been buried 'somewhere in the hills' on the estate on Epstein's orders after they were strangled to death during 'rough, fetish sex.'
Epstein never faced charges in New Mexico, although the state attorney general's office investigated the disgraced financier's operations in 2019.
Former attorney general Hector Balderas said the state's old laws fell short of providing protection to children from abuse.