Members of the legislative truth commission, from left, Reps. Andrea Romero, D-Santa Fe; Andrea Reeb, R-Clovis, and William Hall, R-Aztec, speak after a Jeffrey Epstein hearing at the state Capitol last month. The New Mexico House established the investigatory subcommittee by unanimous vote in the 2026 session.
An interim report due Friday from a state House committee formed to investigate the activities of late convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein in New Mexico will be released Wednesday.
The report is meant to provide an update on the four-member commission’s probe into past local and state investigations into Epstein or his southern Santa Fe County property, Zorro Ranch, which he owned from 1993 until his 2019 death. The House resolution that formed the commission stated the group is required to “furnish an interim report to the leadership of the House on or before July 31, 2026.”
In a Friday news release, members of the Survivor’s Truth Commission stated the panel had “prepared its interim report in accordance with the July 31 reporting deadline,” but that “to ensure all members could participate in person, the earliest available meeting date was August 5.”
The commission did not release the report publicly Friday. Pamela Armstrong, a spokesperson for House Speaker Javier Martínez, noted the report had not been distributed internally and that it would be released to both legislators and the public during the commission’s meeting Wednesday.
Members of the commission, which consists of two Democratic and two Republican House members, did not immediately return calls and emails seeking more information Friday.
During the Wednesday meeting, the commission plans to present its interim report, provide a public presentation summarizing its investigative process and findings to date, report on responses to previously issued subpoenas, and discuss next steps in its work, according to the written statement.
The commission, which is chaired by Rep. Andrea Romero, D-Santa Fe, has hired an Albuquerque-based law firm to help in the investigation and issued subpoenas to a slew of local, state and federal government agencies and other organizations. Many of those who received subpoenas had responded to them as of earlier this summer with records that related to Epstein or Zorro Ranch.
An undated photo in the Epstein files shows four girls standing in front of the bronze burro sculpture in downtown Santa Fe.
Federal investigators’ releases of records from investigations into Epstein in the past year have included new revelations about people who associated with the wealthy financier as well as new information about his Santa Fe County ranch, includes photographs of him and others at the property and in Santa Fe. Some women have alleged they weresexually abusedat the ranch.
The probe is meant to provide “a full accounting of what happened at Zorro Ranch and the systemic failures that allowed it to go unchecked for decades,” according to Romero’s biography on the commission website. The state Department of Justice also reopened a criminal investigation into Epstein’s activities earlier this year.
The public meeting for the presentation of the group’s interim report is scheduled to take place at 1 p.m. in Room 307 at the state Capitol.
