New Mexico Attorney General Raúl Torrez accused Darren Indyke and Richard Kahn of being active financial and administrative participants in what the complaint called the “Epstein Enterprise,” rather than merely Jeffrey Epstein’s lawyer and accountant. The state alleged that the enterprise operated from at least 1997 until Epstein’s death in 2019 and used properties including Zorro Ranch to recruit, transport, isolate, sexually abuse and traffic girls and young women. According to the complaint, Indyke and Kahn managed money and corporate entities that helped keep the operation functioning, including making large amounts of cash available, paying expenses for young women, managing Zorro-related companies and handling transactions that the state said helped conceal Epstein’s activities. The complaint alleged that more than $6 million in cash was withdrawn from Epstein accounts between 2002 and 2013 and that Indyke continued withdrawing more than $200,000 annually from one account even after Epstein became a registered sex offender. New Mexico further alleged that Indyke received more than $16 million from Epstein-related entities between 2011 and 2019, along with an unrepaid $7 million loan and other benefits, while Kahn received more than $10 million and millions more through his company. The state alleged that both men knew, or at minimum recklessly disregarded, that the money they administered was facilitating Epstein’s trafficking and abuse, including conduct at Zorro Ranch.
The lawsuit went considerably further than simply seeking damages from Epstein’s estate. New Mexico brought claims under the federal Trafficking Victims Protection Act and the New Mexico Racketeering Act, accusing Indyke and Kahn of participating in racketeering predicates involving kidnapping, criminal solicitation and conspiracy, while also seeking restitution for unjust enrichment. The complaint cited multiple Jane Does who allegedly were transported to Zorro Ranch through deception, intimidation or coercion and sexually abused there, and it alleged that Indyke and Kahn helped finance the system that recruited and maintained access to those victims. The financial stakes were enormous because both men now serve as co-executors of Epstein’s estate and trustees and beneficiaries of the 1953 Trust; the complaint said Indyke could receive up to $50 million and Kahn up to $25 million from an estate still valued at more than $107 million. New Mexico asked the court to block estate distributions while the case proceeds, force the defendants to disgorge allegedly ill-gotten gains, award restitution, compensatory and punitive damages, potentially triple racketeering damages, and direct assets toward people harmed by the alleged enterprise. These remain civil allegations that Indyke and Kahn will have the opportunity to contest, but the filing represents one of the most aggressive attempts yet to hold Epstein’s financial inner circle legally responsible for allegedly enabling the machinery around his trafficking operation.
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