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Epstein’s Right-Hand Men Hit With Explosive New Lawsuit

“Jeffrey Epstein did not operate alone, and his death does not end the pursuit of accountability for the people who helped make his crimes possible.”

The Attorney General of New Mexico has brought civil charges against Jeffrey Epstein’s personal attorney and accountant after alleging the two men helped facilitate, finance, and conceal the late pedophile’s sex trafficking operation.

Attorney General Raúl Torrez said at a press conference on Wednesday that attorney Darren K. Indyke and accountant Richard D. Kahn were at fault for the abuse girls and young women endured at Epstein’s Zorro Ranch in Santa Fe County.

In a complaint filed in the U.S. District Court for the District of New Mexico, the state is asking the court to halt Indyke and Kahn’s payments from Epstein’s estate and find them liable for racketeering and trafficking in violation of state and federal law.

Additionally, the state is asking for punitive and compensatory damages, as well as restitution, to be awarded to women who were abused at the infamous ranch.

“Jeffrey Epstein did not operate alone, and his death does not end the pursuit of accountability for the people who helped make his crimes possible,” Torrez said on Wednesday. Epstein died by suicide in a Manhattan jail cell in 2019.

He continued: “Those who allegedly enabled this exploitation should not be allowed to profit from it while survivors continue to live with its consequences.”

According to the complaint, Indyke and Kahn held leadership roles in Epstein-related entities, where they authorized transactions connected to the disgraced financier’s trafficking operation.

The complaint also alleges that from 2011 to 2019, Epstein gave Indyke at least $16 million and Kahn $10 million. The two men remain co-executors of the late Epstein’s will and continue to distribute his assets.

The lawsuit marks the first law enforcement action against Indyke and Kahn, who were not immediately available to comment.

As he made the announcement, Torrez was flanked by Epstein survivors Julia Molchanova and Anouska De Georgiou.

In an open letter, the two women and four other Epstein victims—Marina Lacerda, Courtney Wild, Jena Lisa Jones, and Chauntae Davies—said they supported the state’s action.

“Those who argue that [Epstein] could not have acted alone are right,” the letter reads. “His operation depended on the appearance of legitimacy and access to money carefully structured to avoid exposing his crimes,” it continues, pointing to Indyke and Kahn as the two people “most responsible for that appearance and structure.”

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The survivors went on to emphasize what they described as a “profound and deeply troubling conflict”: As co-executors of Epstein’s estate, Indyke and Kahn help determine the damages paid out to the pedophile’s victims.

“It captures the central moral failure of the estate: Darren Indyke and Richard Kahn, the two people who helped the most to sustain Epstein’s world of abuses and to gain far more from it than any one of the people he harmed,” the letter reads.

Kahn, who was employed by Epstein for some 14 years, told the House Oversight Committee earlier this year that he had “no knowledge” if any of Epstein’s transactions were crime-related.

In March, Indyke also testified that he “had no knowledge whatsoever” of the convicted sex offender’s wrongdoing. “Had I known that he was abusing or trafficking women, I would have quit working for him at once and severed all ties to him,” Indyke, who worked for Epstein for more than two decades, said.

Epstein purchased the Zorro Ranch in 1993 from former New Mexico governor Bruce King, and used it to commit numerous sex crimes against women and girls. The notorious pedophile once confided to scientists that he wanted to spread his DNA across the human race by impregnating women at the ranch, according to four sources who spoke to The New York Times.

The sprawling property, with a 26,700-square-foot hilltop mansion, was sold in 2023 for an undisclosed amount to San Rafael Ranch LLC, which The New Mexican tied to businessman Don Huffines. The property was valued at $27.5 million when it was first listed for sale in July 2021.

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