Raul Torrez

Raúl Torrez is the 32nd Attorney General of New Mexico and a member of the Democratic Party. He assumed office on January 1, 2023, after serving as District Attorney of Bernalillo County from 2017 to 2023, and earlier worked as an Assistant U.S. Attorney and as counsel in the New Mexico Attorney General’s office. Torrez figures in the Epstein matter in his official capacity as New Mexico’s top state law enforcement officer, not as an individual named in connection with Jeffrey Epstein’s conduct.

In February 2026, Torrez ordered that the state’s criminal investigation into Jeffrey Epstein’s Zorro Ranch, the property near Stanley, New Mexico, be reopened. According to the Santa Fe New Mexican, a spokesperson stated: “Upon reviewing information recently released by the U.S. Department of Justice, Attorney General Raúl Torrez has ordered that the criminal investigation into allegations of illegal activity at Jeffrey Epstein’s Zorro Ranch be reopened.” The same report noted that the decision followed the U.S. Department of Justice’s release of previously sealed federal documents and that the department concluded “revelations outlined in the previously sealed FBI files warrant further examination.” That disclosure was required by the Epstein Files Transparency Act, which the Santa Fe New Mexican reported Congress passed in 2025 and which mandated the release of records including emails, flight logs, reports and photos from the federal investigation.

The Santa Fe New Mexican reported that New Mexico’s earlier inquiry into the ranch had been closed in 2019 “at the request of the U.S. Department of Justice for the Southern District of New York,” and that state investigators now intend to “follow the facts wherever they lead” and to seek “immediate access to the complete, unredacted federal case file.” CBS News reported that, on March 10, 2026, law enforcement searched Zorro Ranch, and that Torrez’s office said the search was “being done with the cooperation of the current ranch owners.”

Is Raul Torrez in the Epstein files?

Based on the sources reviewed for this profile, Raul Torrez appears in connection with the Epstein matter solely as a public official, not as an individual named in the files as connected to Epstein. As New Mexico Attorney General, Torrez reopened the state’s criminal investigation into Epstein’s Zorro Ranch in February 2026 after the federal government released previously sealed records under the Epstein Files Transparency Act, and his office searched the property in March 2026 (Santa Fe New Mexican; CBS News). The reviewed sources describe him as the investigator and prosecuting authority pursuing the New Mexico matter, and do not indicate that he is personally named in the Epstein files as an associate or subject of Epstein-related conduct.