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Court documents claim Dougherty, along with, Andres Pedroza, Juanito Montoya, and Yaquez McKenzie attempted to break into Adrian Vallejos' car outside his home in southwest Albuquerque. Documents claim Vallejos confronted the teens while they were attempting to break into his car and they opened fire, killing Vallejos.
Dougherty pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit aggravated burglary with a deadly weapon and conspiracy to commit robbery. He faces up to four-and-a-half years in custody of CYD when sentenced. His sentencing is expected to take place in July.
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This Albuquerque business owner found a ‘humane' way to deal with trespassers using his back door as a toilet
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The Selloff Of Jeffrey Epstein's Tainted Homes
Jeffrey Epstein's former estate on Little St. James Island in the U. S. Virgin Islands. Copyright 2019 The Associated Press. All rights reserved Six years after his death in a Manhattan prison cell in August 2019, Jeffrey Epstein is once again dominating headlines as the Trump administration comes under increasing pressure to release more documents from the Justice Department's investigation into the convicted sex offender. In July 2019, federal prosecutors charged Epstein with sexually exploiting and abusing dozens of underaged girls between 2002 and 2005, but his death a month later meant that all of the charges were dropped. Many of those alleged crimes took place at his extensive collection of homes around the world in Manhattan, New Mexico, Palm Beach, Paris and the U.S. Virgin Islands. After Epstein's death, the executors of his estate valued his fortune at $578 million, with his real estate holdings making up about $117 million. Between 2021 and 2023, those properties were all sold for roughly $160 million. Epstein's estate appears to have kept roughly $50 million from the sales, with the rest being paid out to the Epstein Victims' Compensation Program—a fund set up in 2020 to financially compensate more than 100 victims of the disgraced financier—and a trust to provide support to victims of sexual abuse in the U.S. Virgin Islands. At least two other properties that Epstein owned in New Albany, Ohio—home to retail billionaire Leslie Wexner, who was Epstein's principal client for several decades—were sold or transferred years before he died. Since 2019, Epstein's estate has distributed more than $160 million to victims, repaid a $30 million loan and agreed to a $105 million settlement with the U.S. Virgin Islands. Yet thanks to a $112 million tax refund from the IRS last year, the estate still had $131 million in assets as of its latest filing on March 31. Here's what happened to each of Epstein's homes: 9 East 71st Street, New York Jeffrey Epstein's former residence at 9 East 71st Street in Manhattan's Upper East Side. Getty Images The 7-story, 40-room neoclassical mansion on Manhattan's Upper East Side is cited 14 times in Epstein's federal indictment in 2019, with prosecutors alleging Epstein recruited and brought dozens of underage victims to the palatial residence. Originally built for Macy's heir Herbert Straus in the 1930s, the house was purchased for $13 million in 1989 by retail tycoon Leslie Wexner, who was Epstein's main client and business partner for decades starting in the late 1980s. (Wexner has said he severed ties with Epstein in 2007.) In 2011, Wexner transferred the property to Maple Inc., a U.S. Virgin Islands-based company controlled by Epstein. Epstein's executors valued the home at $56 million after his death in August 2019 and put it up for sale for $88 million; it ultimately sold for $51 million in March 2021 to Michael Daffey, a former Goldman Sachs executive. A lawyer for Epstein's estate told Forbes at the time that just under $51 million from the sale was transferred to the estate and the victims' compensation fund. Epstein also had ties to the house next door at 11 East 71st Street, now owned by Secretary of Commerce Howard Lutnick, his neighbor for at least two decades. In 1988, SAM Conversion Corp.—a company based in Columbus, Ohio registered to an address then associated with Wexner—purchased the three-story home for an undisclosed amount. Epstein is listed as the vice president of SAM on the deed, and four years later, in 1992, SAM transferred the property to a trust where Epstein was the trustee, also registered at the same Columbus address. In 1996, that trust sold the property to another entity, the Comet Trust—unaffiliated with Epstein or Wexner—for an estimated $6.2 million, according to Crain's Business Journal . That trust ultimately sold the house for an estimated $7.6 million in 1998 to Lutnick, who has owned it since. 358 El Brillo Way, Palm Beach, Florida Jeffrey Epstein's former home in Palm Beach, Florida. TNS via Getty Images The other property that appears in Epstein's 2019 federal indictment is his 14,000-square-foot, six-bedroom home in Palm Beach. The indictment mentions the property 13 times, alleging that Epstein ensnared a network of underaged girls that he sexually abused at the house. Palm Beach police searched the home in 2005 as part of the first investigation into Epstein, which led to a grand jury trial that indicted him on a single count of soliciting prostitution in 2006. Epstein bought the home in 1990 for $2.5 million, five years after President Donald Trump bought his residence at Mar-a-Lago, which is located two miles to the south. That's also when Epstein and Trump appear to have first met, starting a friendship that lasted until at least 2004. The two men reportedly had a falling out that year after they got into a bidding war for the Maison de L'Amitié, a French Regency-style estate in Palm Beach; Trump ultimately won, purchasing the 270,000-square-foot palace for $41 million. (He then sold it in 2008 to a trust tied to Russian billionaire Dmitry Rybolovlev for $95 million.) Epstein's estate valued the Palm Beach house at $12.4 million in 2019 and listed it for $22 million in 2020. It finally sold a year later in January 2021 for $18.5 million, and the proceeds of the sale reportedly went to the victims' compensation fund. The local developer who bought it, Todd Michael Glaser, tore down Epstein's house, changed the address and flipped the empty lot for $26 million eight months later. Great St. James Island and Little St. James Island, U.S. Virgin Islands Epstein's former compound on Little St. James Island in the U.S. Virgin Islands. TNS Epstein bought the 70-plus-acre Little St. James Island, located in the U.S. Virgin Islands, for nearly $8 million in 1998. It came to be known as 'pedophile island' after Epstein allegedly used it as the center of his sex trafficking ring. In 2016, he also purchased the larger island right next to it, the 160-plus-acre Great St. James, for $22.5 million. Between 2001 and 2018, Epstein allegedly brought underaged girls and young women to Little St. James and forced them to engage in sexual acts and forced labor, according to a criminal case filed by the government of the U.S. Virgin Islands in 2020. The complaint also alleged that Epstein had bought Great St. James to 'further shield his conduct on Little St. James from view' and 'prevent his detection by law enforcement or the public."' Epstein's estate valued the islands—which featured a helipad, a private dock, a main residence and several villas—at a collective $31 million after his death in 2019 but later listed them for an asking price of $125 million. The estate settled with the U.S. Virgin Islands government in December 2022, agreeing to pay $105 million in cash, repay $80 million in tax benefits plus pay an additional $450,000 to repair environmental damage around Great St. James, due to Epstein's alleged razing of centuries-old structures built by enslaved workers on the island. In May 2023, Epstein's estate sold the islands for $60 million to private equity billionaire Stephen Deckoff, who told Forbes that he planned to build a 25-room luxury resort on the islands. Under the settlement, half of that amount went to the U.S. Virgin Islands government to be placed in a trust set up to provide counseling programs and other services for victims of sexual abuse and human trafficking. Zorro Ranch, Stanley, New Mexico Epstein bought the 10,000-acre ranch outside of Santa Fe in northern New Mexico for an estimated $12 million in 1993. The property featured a 30,000-square-foot main residence, a caretaker's home and several smaller houses, plus a greenhouse, stables and an air strip. According to the Department of Justice's indictment of Epstein girlfriend Ghislaine Maxwell in 2020, Maxwell and Epstein groomed a minor victim at the ranch in 1996. (Maxwell was sentenced to 20 years in prison in 2022.) Epstein's estate valued the ranch at $17.2 million in 2019, just before New Mexico's land commissioner cancelled the lease of 1,243 acres of state land to Cypress Inc., the U.S. Virgin Islands-based company that Epstein used to own the property. His estate put the ranch on the market in 2021 for $27.5 million, before reducing the price to $18 million. It ultimately sold in August 2023 for an undisclosed amount to a company that renamed it San Rafael Ranch. An attorney for Epstein's estate told Albuquerque-based TV station KRQE at the time that the proceeds of the sale were used for 'estate administration, including payment of creditors.' 22 Avenue Foch, Paris, France Epstein's former apartment on Avenue Foch in Paris' 16th arrondissement. AFP via Getty Images Epstein bought a 7,400-square-foot apartment—composed of two units joined together—in the upscale 16th arrondissement for a reported $3.2 million in 2001. Through a French company named SCI JEP, Epstein owned three units on the second floor with views of the nearby Arc de Triomphe, plus two units on the fifth floor and two cellars in the basement. French police searched the apartment, along with the offices of a modeling agency owned by Epstein's associate, Jean-Luc Brunel, in September 2019 to investigate sex-trafficking allegations. Brunel was arrested in December 2020 while trying to board a flight to Senegal and detained on charges of rape, sexual assault of minors and human trafficking. He was found dead in his Paris prison cell in February 2022. Epstein's estate valued the apartment at $8.7 million in 2019 and later listed it for about $12.5 million. It sold in June 2022 for roughly $10 million to Georgi Tuchev, a Bulgarian businessman who runs a plastic packaging company. A lawyer for Epstein's estate told Bloomberg at the time that part of the proceeds would be paid out to Epstein's victims. 5025 East Dublin Granville Rd and 7558 King George Drive, New Albany, Ohio Epstein also owned at least two properties in New Albany, Ohio, a town that was greatly expanded and developed by Wexner starting in the 1990s through his New Albany Company. He purchased 5025 East Dublin Granville Road, a 4-bedroom house less than a mile from Wexner's main residence—a 60,000-square-foot Georgian-style estate—in 1993 for $3.5 million. In 1996, Epstein hired Maria Farmer, a young artist who was in her mid-20s, to work at Wexner's estate for the summer. Farmer told the New York Times just recently that she had informed the FBI in 1996 and 2006 that she also met Trump at Epstein's Manhattan offices in 1995. She reportedly recalled feeling scared as Trump looked at her legs, before Epstein entered the room and told Trump that 'she's not here for you.' White House communications director Steven Cheung denied that Trump was ever in Epstein's office. Years earlier, Farmer had alleged that Epstein and Maxwell had molested her on Wexner's property. Wexner's security guards allegedly blocked her from leaving the home for 12 hours while she attempted to flee, according to a 2019 affidavit that Farmer filed as part of a defamation lawsuit led by Epstein accuser Virginia Giuffre against attorney Alan Dershowitz, which was later dropped. (Farmer also separately sued Epstein's estate that same year but dismissed it in 2021, after the estate made her an offer through the victims' compensation program.) Epstein sold this home for $8 million in 1998 to HHD & B LLC, a company with the same mailing address as Wexner's New Albany Company, which still owns the house today. Epstein also owned another, smaller home in New Albany at 7558 King George Drive, which he purchased for $365,000 in 1994. In 2007, he transferred it for $0 to a trust for Wezner's wife Abigail, who then sold it for $365,000 in 2011. Since Epstein sold or transferred both of his New Albany homes years before his death, neither one was included in his estate. With reporting by Jemima McEvoy
Bloomberg
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- Bloomberg
Shale Drillers Turn Against Each Other as Toxic Water Leaks Hit Biggest US Oil Field
The toxic water that gushes out of oil wells in the Permian Basin of Texas and New Mexico has spurred environmental concerns and even earthquakes. Now the problem has become so acute that it's turning producers against one another. In an ongoing case in Texas' Loving County (population: 48), a New Mexico oil driller says Devon Energy Corp. and another company wrecked its reserves by flooding them with wastewater.
