New Mexico sues Epstein's former lawyer and accountant over alleged cover-up
New Mexico Attorney General Raul Torrez filed a lawsuit against Jeffrey Epstein’s longtime attorney Darren Indyke and his accountant Richard Kahn, accusing them of hiding the financier’s sex-trafficking activities at his Zorro Ranch.
Attorney General Raul Torrez of New Mexico announced a civil action against Darren Indyke, who served as Jeffrey Epstein’s attorney for about twenty years, and Richard Kahn, his accountant. The complaint asserts that the two professionals were aware of the sexual exploitation of minors at Epstein’s Zorro Ranch near Santa Fe and participated in a scheme to hide the operation. Indyke and Kahn have previously testified before a congressional panel, denying knowledge of the abuse.
The state’s filing also aims to prevent them from collecting any funds from Epstein’s estate. Epstein took his own life in August 2019 while held in a federal detention center in New York, awaiting trial on sex-trafficking charges. His former girlfriend and close associate, Ghislaine Maxwell, is serving a 20-year sentence after a 2021 conviction for similar offenses.
Why it matters
The case could limit how Epstein’s estate compensates victims and hold his close advisors accountable.
How the sides frame it
MODERATE AGREEMENTLeft-leaning coverage emphasizes the alleged facilitation, financing and concealment by Epstein’s aides as an explosive wrongdoing, while center coverage presents the suit as a straightforward effort to block their profit and return assets to survivors, and right-leaning coverage highlights the profit motive and the need to keep the estate’s money for victims.
LEFT
The lawsuit is portrayed as a dramatic exposé of Epstein’s former attorney and accountant who allegedly facilitated, financed and concealed his sex-trafficking operation.
CENTER
The suit is described as a straightforward civil action to prevent the advisers from profiting and to return estate resources to survivors.
RIGHT
The action is framed as a move to stop the advisers from profiting from Epstein’s estate and to hold them accountable for covering up the abuse.
The left emphasises
- facilitated, finance, and conceal the sex-trafficking operation
- explosive new lawsuit
- racketeering and trafficking charges
The right emphasises
- could profit substantially from the more-than-$100 million estate
- money belongs to the victims
- accused of covering up the sex-trafficking operation
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