[KRQE] The roughly 8,000-acre Zorro Ranch in New Mexico connected to Jeffrey Epstein was listed for sale for $27.5 million; and according to the Santa Fe County Clerks’ office – it was sold this month to San Rafael Ranch, LLC. A new warranty deed was recorded on August 16 for an undisclosed amount.
KRQE Investigates obtained documents confirming the change of ownership from Cypress Inc. to San Rafael Ranch, LLC. Records show Epstein and the Zorro trust bought the ranch from the Gary King family, then built his 33,339 square foot mansion there in the ’90s.
Two years ago, KRQE Investigates uncovered a fake warranty deed connected to the Epstein property in New Mexico. The Florida man associated with the fake deed later faced a federal indictment for allegedly hiring a hitman.
On Tuesday, an attorney for the Epstein estate confirmed to KRQE the sale of the Zorro ranch property.
On behalf of the Epstein Estate, we confirm sale by the Estate of the New Mexico property known as “Zorro Ranch,” with the proceeds to be used for Estate administration, including payment of creditors. While details of that sale (including the purchase price and buyer) are confidential, the Estate will disclose the sale in its next quarterly accounting to be filed in the St. Thomas, USVI probate court.
[JustTheNews] Newly disclosed State Department memos conflict with the narrative Democrats crafted since 2019 impeachment.
Just weeks before then-Vice President Joe Biden took the opposite action in late 2015, a task force of State, Treasury and Justice Department officials declared that Ukraine had made adequate progress on anti-corruption reforms and deserved a new $1 billion U.S. loan guarantee, according to government memos that conflict with the narrative Democrats have sustained since the 2019 impeachment scandal.
“Ukraine has made sufficient progress on its reform agenda to justify a third guarantee,” reads an Oct. 1, 2015, memo summarizing the recommendation of the Interagency Policy Committee (IPC) – a task force created to advise the Obama White House on whether Ukraine was cleaning up its endemic corruption and deserved more Western foreign aid.
The recommendation is one of several U.S. government memos gathered by Just the News over the last 36 months from Freedom of Information Act litigation, congressional inquiries and government agency sources that directly conflict with the long-held narrative that Biden was conducting official U.S. policy when he threatened to withhold a $1 billion U.S. loan guarantee to force Ukraine to fire Prosecutor General Viktor Shokin, the country’s equivalent of the American attorney general.
At the time the threat was made in December 2015, Shokin’s office was conducting an increasingly aggressive corruption investigation into Burisma Holdings, an energy firm the State Department deemed to have been engaged in bribery and that employed Hunter Biden and paid him millions while his father was vice president.
New details on the impact of that probe have emerged in recent days.
Shokin's pursuit was rattling Burisma, and the firm was putting pressure on Hunter Biden to deal with it, according to recent testimony and interviews with Devon Archer, Hunter Biden's former business partner and fellow Burisma board member.
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Joe talks about them not getting the money, but, to my understanding, the deal was a loan guarantee not money. That sounds like we co-signed on a $1B loan if they needed it. My assumption is that this was all funny talk that means they get a loan of $1B which we get stuck with. None of that sounds like a substantial improvement with regard to corruption.
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[FoxNews] When he ambushed a Connecticut police officer with a hammer this month, Winston Tate was out on probation for assaulting another officer and had at least 30 priors – including a third attack on a police officer – and 14 convictions within the past six years, according to court records.
Tate is jailed at Connecticut's Garner Correctional Institution on more than $1 million bail for charges that stem from his alleged Aug. 12 attack on Middletown Police Detective Karli Travis, an attack that fellow town cops say should never have happened.
Body camera footage captured the assault during which Tate ignored Travis's instructions to "please" drop his weapon, wrestled her to the ground and struck her at least four times, according to authorities.
Travis shot Tate several times while they fought, but according to Tate's arrest warrant, the onslaught only ceased once a bystander shouted, "Hey, f--- face," which distracted the attacker long enough for Travis to get out from underneath him.
Local Middletown Police Union President Nick Puorro told Fox News Digital that the attack was "tangible proof of the problem there is" that "shouldn't take a female officer almost being murdered on national TV to fix."
"A guy like this, who has 30 prior arrests, [who] has attacked officers, he should never have been out again," Puorro told Fox. "He has proven that he is not a functioning member of society, and he deserves to be locked up in a cage like the animal he is."
According to incident reports shared with Fox News Digital, the Middletown Police Department was "familiar" with Tate long before his most recent arrest.
Officers had been sent to Tate's home four times in the preceding month for what Puorro called a pattern of "terrorizing his neighbors" and tenant – smashing glass, yelling on his porch and shouting racial epithets.
Tate was on probation for assaulting another police officer in October 2020, per records.
Initially, he was sentenced to three years in prison, but that sentence was "suspended" in favor of probation, per state records.
Two years prior to that, he was sentenced in a New Britain court to a year in prison for attempting to assault another police officer.
Court filings on both of these incidents have been "disposed of," per a representative with the Connecticut State Judicial Branch, and could not be retrieved at press time.
Since 2018, Tate has been arrested in eight different Connecticut municipalities and convicted on 14 separate charges.
While only convictions dating from 2018 onward are viewable on the State of Connecticut Judicial Branch website, data compiled by a search of the Lexis Nexis legal database shows Tate has a criminal history dating to 1996.
For most of these convictions, he served little if any jail time. Since 2003, per incarceration records shared with Fox News Digital by the Connecticut Department of Corrections, he has spent 1,070 days – less than three years total – behind bars.
In April 2018, Tate served six months of a two-year sentence for carrying a dangerous weapon – he violated his subsequent two-year probation twice, records show.
That same month, a New London court sentenced Tate to three months for disorderly conduct, six months for second-degree breach of the peace and another six months for second-degree threatening. It is unclear how much of this sentence he served in prison.
Another court sentenced Tate to two years for his second DUI – he served 120 days, per state records. It is unclear if that was concurrent with his prison time for the New London charges. He would violate his probation three times, per records.
Because they were "familiar" with Tate, Middletown police were called in 2020 when he robbed a Walgreens in the neighboring town of Meriden and assaulted the store's manager there, according to an incident report.
Police said Tate "shoved [the manager] to the ground as hard as [he] could" and began yelling and throwing items around the store. Then he stole more than $300 worth of Prevagen – an over-the-counter memory supplement.
Tate served three months of a three-year sentence handed down in March, according to legal records – if he had served the entirety of his sentence, he would have been incarcerated at the time he allegedly attacked Travis.
While he said he does not "want to keep people incarcerated that are capable of living in the community safely," Middletown Police Chief Erik Costa told Fox News Digital that "if you're violently attacking people, I think incarceration is the only cure until we're sure of [the public's safety]."
"Judges need to be given the authority to put people in jail long enough to get the resources they need," Costa continued. "Judges are forced to get people out of jail as soon as possible."
Public defender Angela Anastasi said in court on Aug. 15 that Tate is an Army veteran who was honorably discharged after serving in the Gulf War and has a "medication diagnosis."
Army Public Affairs Specialist Bryce S. Dubee told Fox News Digital that Tate served from October 1989 to October 1992 and was deployed to southwest Asia from January 1991 until May 1991 and saw combat in Operation Desert Storm.
Tate attained the rank of private first class before he was discharged. Among his decorations are the Combat Infantryman Badge, Kuwait Liberation Medal, Army Commendation Medal and Army Achievement Medal.
But Puorro told Fox News Digital that he was not giving Tate "any kind of pass with his mental health."
"That's justified and used appropriately sometimes," the union head said. "Other times it's just used as an excuse. This animal was a murderer intent on murdering and should be treated as a criminal."
[BREITBART] President Joe The Big Guy Biden ...46th president of the U.S. S You're a lyin' dog-faced pony soldier... ’s Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas is sending another round of millions in American taxpayer money to non-governmental organizations (NGOs) and mostly sanctuary cities for facilitating illegal immigration throughout the United States.
On Monday, Mayorkas announced that the DHS, through the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) and U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP), would give 53 NGOs and cities more than $77 million in federal grants for their help in absorbing border crossers and illegal aliens released into their communities.
The recipients include NGOs like Catholic Charities, United Way, Mission: Border Hope, and Louisiana Advocates for Immigrants colonists in Detention, among others, which rely heavily on illegal immigration to circulate funding.
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Looks like more socialism and 2024 campaign funding payoffs to me.
Perhaps the United States Congress (which is supposed to approve and appropriate funding) can immediately decrement the budget of DHS.
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Paul Abbate, Deputy Director of the FBI (2nd command behind Wray) was field supervisor of the Libya field office of the FBI during the 2012 Benghazi attack. Something their incompetence did not discover therefore they claimed the attack was not planned but was spontaneous. Under intense pressure from evidence to the otherwise, they finally admitted it was an organized attack that resulted in the death of two Americans.
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Four Americans died in the 2012 Benghazi attack
Ambassador Chris Stevens,
Information Officer Sean Smith
and two CIA operatives:
.Glen Doherty
.Tyrone Woods
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Siskel belongs in this middle of the iceberg hit recovery team. He’ll be on the Lido deck. No need for a life preserver or life boat seat.
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MAY 16, 2014
Edward Siskel, formerly White House deputy counsel and deputy assistant to President Barack Obama, has returned to law firm WilmerHale to help spearhead its strategic response group based in Washington.
He previously advised senior executive branch officials on legal issues associated with risk management, compliance, oversight and national security programs, Wilmerhale said Thursday.
"I am excited to be rejoining WilmerHale, and look forward to building a practice at the intersection of government investigations, strategic response, litigation, and public policy, †Siskel said.
Siskel also held a senior leadership role at the Justice Department, where he provided legal advice to senior officials in DOJ, the Securities and Exchange Commission, FBI and other law enforcement agencies throughout the U.S
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
[KRQE] The roughly 8,000-acre 
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