New Mexico sues Epstein attorney and accountant, accusing them of facilitating his sex trafficking

Two longtime associates of convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein are being sued over allegations that they helped facilitate and conceal his sex trafficking operation, including the abuse of young women and girls at a remote New Mexico ranch .

The New Mexico attorney general’s office announced the lawsuit Tuesday against Epstein’s personal attorney Darren Indyke and accountant Richard Kahn. The suit seeks to block the pair from receiving payouts from Epstein’s estate.

“Mr. Indyke and Mr. Kahn, through patterns of conduct including participating in the organization of various corporate entities and structuring payments and concealing the operations of that enterprise, facilitated the criminal conduct and the trafficking behavior of Jeffrey Epstein for a number of years,” state Attorney General Raúl Torrez (D) said during a press conference.

“It is unconscionable in my mind that people who actively participated in the efforts of that trafficking enterprise, that they should in any way benefit from what is left of his estate,” he added.

Torrez said the two men, as co-executors of Epstein’s more than $100 million trust, stand to “benefit substantially” from it if courts do not intervene.

The complaint alleges that Indyke, who worked for Epstein for two decades, helped arrange payments to survivors to “purchase their silence” and handled the 2011 transfer of the Zorro Ranch title to an Epstein-controlled company, among other services.

It claimed that both men personally profited from their relationships with Epstein to the tune of tens of millions of dollars.

Two Epstein survivors spoke at Tuesday’s press conference, thanking Torrez for his effort to hold those who enabled the abuse accountable.

“We cannot undo what happened or return what was taken from us, but we can demand answers,” Anouska De Georgiou said. “We can pursue justice, and we can insist that wealth, power, and influence never place anyone beyond accountability.”

A lawyer representing Indyke and Kahn said the pair “emphatically reject” the allegations and called the lawsuit “baseless,” saying no one from the attorney general’s office has sought to speak with them during its investigation.

“Both Mr. Indyke and Mr. Kahn reject as categorically false the allegations that they knowingly facilitated or assisted Mr. Epstein in his sexual abuse or trafficking of women, or that they were aware of Mr. Epstein’s actions while they provided legal or accounting services to him,” Daniel Weiner said in a statement. “They are confident that they will prevail on the claims asserted against them.”

Indyke testified before the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee in March that he had “no knowledge whatsoever” of Epstein’s abuse and would have stopped working for him if he had, according to several media reports.

New Mexico prosecutors have been investigating potential illegal activity at Zorro Ranch, a remote property outside of Santa Fe that is mentioned thousands of times in the Epstein files.

In an August lawsuit, Torrez accused the Justice Department of “stonewalling” that probe by withholding documents that could aid the state’s inquiry and asked a judge to force the department to hand them over.