Overview
- Lawmakers launched a four-member bipartisan panel with subpoena authority and a budget of roughly $2–2.5 million, holding its first hearing this week.
- The commission will take survivor testimony, examine possible investigative and institutional failures, and deliver an interim report by July 31 and a final report by year’s end.
- New Mexico’s Department of Justice has requested an unredacted 2019 email alleging two foreign girls were buried near the ranch, with federal agencies yet to provide it.
- Released DOJ files indicate federal agents did not search the New Mexico property and that a 2019 state inquiry was halted at the request of Manhattan federal prosecutors.
- The ranch, sold in 2023 to an entity tied to Texas politician Don Huffines, remains a focus of survivor accounts and FBI notes from the former manager describing guests and ‘masseuses’ flown in.