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@ -80,7 +80,7 @@ The [[New Mexico Department of Public Safety]] wrote to Epstein in July 2010 inf
[[Gary King]], son of the governor whose family sold Epstein the ranch, was elected New Mexico Attorney General in 2006. That year he received 15,000 dollars for his campaign from an Epstein entity called The Zorro Trust, which he returned after Epstein's first arrest in Florida. In 2010, the year the Department of Public Safety told the sheriff that Epstein need not register, a staff member in King's office used official government email to arrange an afternoon meeting for Epstein "with AG Gary King" at a Santa Fe restaurant. The FBI had interviewed the ranch manager in 2007 and learned that Epstein frequently brought women to the ranch and invited local masseuses; whether the information was shared with state officials is one of the questions before the legislature's truth commission.[^14]
King won the Democratic nomination for governor on June 3, 2014, with [[Deb Haaland]] as his running mate. Two days later Epstein's assistant told King's fundraiser that Epstein was ready to support him, and a June 18 email thanked Epstein for his "personal commitment to raise $50,000 for my campaign," noting that "each separate corporation is considered to be a separate giver." Epstein's lawyer [[Darren Indyke]] told Epstein that King's campaign website pledged to increase prosecutions of offenses against children and suggested giving through companies to avoid "additional press coverage regarding or accepting of your contribution"; Epstein told him to send the money through "co s or trusts." The campaign deposited 5,000 dollars from JEGE LLC, an Epstein aviation company registered in the Virgin Islands, on July 7, 5,200 dollars more from JEGE on September 1, and 5,000 dollars from Maple, Inc., the company holding Epstein's Manhattan house, on September 8.[^14][^15]
King won the Democratic nomination for governor on June 3, 2014, with [[Deb Haaland]] as his running mate. Two days later Epstein's assistant told King's fundraiser that Epstein was ready to support him, and a June 18 email thanked Epstein for his "personal commitment to raise $50,000 for my campaign," noting that "each separate corporation is considered to be a separate giver." Epstein's lawyer [[Darren Indyke]] told Epstein that King's campaign website pledged to increase prosecutions of offenses against children and suggested giving through companies to avoid "additional press coverage regarding or accepting of your contribution"; Epstein told him to send the money through "co s or trusts." The campaign deposited 5,000 dollars from [[JEGE, Inc.|JEGE LLC]], an Epstein aviation company registered in the Virgin Islands, on July 7, 5,200 dollars more from JEGE on September 1, and 5,000 dollars from Maple, Inc., the company holding Epstein's Manhattan house, on September 8.[^14][^15]
On August 21, 2014 an email to Epstein said King "wanted to speak to you about possibly using your plane" to fly from Santa Fe on the evening of September 8 to a breakfast in Washington. A trip sheet shows King and Haaland among five passengers on a flight chartered by JEGE LLC from Santa Fe Municipal Airport to Washington on September 8; the campaign reported paying 22,060 dollars to the charter company Injet, and at 5:36 a.m. on September 9 a charter booker emailed Epstein's accountant [[Richard Kahn]] and pilot [[Larry Visoski]] that the plane was "on the ground at IAD." The same day King told the Santa Fe New Mexican he would return Epstein's donations; the campaign announced it would return more than 36,500 dollars, but its finance reports show no evidence that refunds were made. In February 2026 King said, "We didn't have any reason to know or believe that it was a plane that was owned by Jeffrey Epstein. My staff had told me that Bill Richardson was helping us to arrange for an airplane," and later, "I probably wouldn't have flown on it if I'd known it was a Jeffrey Epstein jet." A spokesperson for Haaland said she "never had any interaction with him and the way in which the plane was chartered was never communicated to her."[^14][^15]