The Circle Tightens
By Mike Bibb

Jeffrey Epstein's Zorro Ranch estate

Jeffery Epstein's former 7,500-acre Zorro Ranch,
located in the central highlands of New Mexico, was
a destination for many of his paying customers seeking
special sexual thrills and adventures. Following his
death, the ranch was eventually sold, several million
dollars below its appraised value.
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Everyday it's another revelation of something amiss within Washington's circles. This time, sex pervert Jeffery Epstein's exploits are back in the news.

Normally, Jeff's lifestyle didn't really matter to most people. He was just another cog in the wheel of innumerable cogs operating behind the scenes in D.C., and other places where influential celebrities and movers of society tend to mingle.

Except, Jeff offered a special service to those seeking "a little something extra" to spice up their mundane lives. A benefit so unique and alluring that only the wealthier and more connected amongst us could afford: The Lolita Express.

Basically, the Lolita Express was a private jet carrier provided by Epstein to shuttle paying customers to his resorts on an island in the U.S. Virgin Islands and his Zorro Ranch in the high central deserts of New Mexico.

There, clients were treated to all the decadence and sexual amenities they could imagine, including sex with underage girls.

Actually, Epstein's involvement in New Mexico began three decades ago when a large land-lease was granted by the state to his Zorro Trust on Feb. 22, 1993. Obviously, Jeffery was already planning his future child-sex business.

Epstein also owned property in Palm Beach, Florida, an expensive large apartment in Paris, France, and another small island.

More importantly, the escapades were intentionally kept private. Names and phone numbers of paying customers were never to be released, fearing exposure would adversely affect the reputations of those involved.

Nevertheless, his planes often transported politicians, corporate executives and other influential passengers. Not everyone was interested in his "House Specialties," but many were.

Of course, like most criminal scams, the integrity of the promoter was less than the gullibility of the clients.

As it turns out, there was a list of names of individuals visiting the residences. There were also flight logs of the aircrafts, and dates and locations of their departures and arrivals.

"Whoops. That damn Epstein tricked us! He kept detailed info on our visits. What should we do?" panicky Lolita Express patrons were probably thinking. "If these reports leak to the press, it could get really nasty, really fast!"

As a sort of insurance policy, Epstein also secretly taped video and audio recordings of his customers. This wasn't known until later brought up at his trial. That bit of info may have been his final undoing. There was no denying that while Jeffery was making buckets of money from his clients, he was also building a library of blackmail tapes — should they ever be needed in the future.

This guy was a real low-life piece of human garbage with the conscience of a maggot. Still, he made a lot of money until some of the young girls began discussing with authorities their lives within Epstein's organization. Then things began to unravel.

Epstein was eventually arrested, tried and convicted in New York City. He mysteriously died in custody in 2019. Suicide was determined as cause of death.

Many have suspicions about the ruling, citing unbelievable coincidences: Epstein's cellmate was transferred out earlier in the evening and no one took his place. He was not checked every 30 minutes per suicide watch regulations. The two assigned guards in his unit fell asleep for three hours and later falsified their reports. Both video cameras monitoring his cell simultaneously malfunctioned. In effect, there were no guards or surveillance equipment working at the time of his alleged suicide. It wasn't until the following morning when detention personnel discovered his body. He was found dead in his cell at 6:30 AM, Aug 10, 2019. Epstein was 66.

I'm no cop or criminal investigator, but something certainly appears highly irregular in this scenario. Yet, this was the explanation NYC department of corrections offered.

His partner in the operation, Ghislaine Maxwell, was convicted in 2021 of recruiting and sexually exploiting young girls for Epstein. She was sentenced to 20 years.

Now, a few years later President Trump's Department of Justice Attorney General Pam Bondi wants to see all the evidence available relating to the Jeffrey Epstein case.

About 200 pages of info were released to her office, but Bondi insists the FBI field office in New York has thousands more pages to turn over to the DOJ. She ordered the NYC office to submit the documents by 8:00 AM, Friday, Feb. 28, 2025.

Apparently, reams of additional data did arrive. Now the task of sorting out all the lurid details and who was involved in this high dollar scandal will be reviewed.

It almost seems certain names of wealthy and prominent individuals will be discovered. This has been one of the more contentious disputes in the entire case and AG Bondi wants to learn more about it.

First of all, names and phone numbers of people on the flight logs of the Lolita Express could be evidence of the degree of degradation some famous customers had been involved in. Particularly, if they are or have been in public office, financial services, media, the legal profession or other positions where their integrity and influence might be compromised by the revelation of such caustic information.

Sexual encounters at secluded locations are one thing, paying for it and having it with underage girls in tropical isles and isolated New Mexico retreats is entirely different.

There are laws about that kind of stuff, as Jeffery and Ghislaine found out.

Disclosure of information within the FBI documents — while maybe not an absolute admission of criminality — will look incriminating to those whose names were recorded on the flight logs.

For the simple reason if there are no legitimate details suggesting certain people have been involved in Epstein's services, then there would be no need to suppress the info.

On the other hand, if there's evidence of culpability, then the DOJ needs to investigate. Sex trafficking in underage girls, and clients of Epstein's illegal enterprises, need to be exposed and prosecuted.

Even if their revelation and esteemed standing in the community would make most folks' jaws drop!

As a last resort, I'd imagine Ghislaine Maxwell knows more than she's been willing to discuss. Should some of Biden's left-over FBI agents slow-walk Director Bondi's investigation, there are probably at least two approaches that may help resolve the problem: Enforce administrative procedures on those FBI personnel who have been reluctant to comply with Ms. Bondi's directives and sit down and negotiate some kind of "deal" with Maxwell.

The FBI agents might immediately "lawyer up," but Ghislaine could be willing to talk. That is, if it can be guaranteed she wouldn't suddenly die from another bizarre prison suicide!