Fmr. NM Gov. Bill Richardson: recalls visiting Epstein NM Zorro Ranch Mansion - "just a single time". Received $100K for campaign -- gave back Half when exposed! Richardson is known to be lying, thieving trash. Here's the link. Former Gov. Bill Richardson recalls visiting the southern Santa Fe County mansion of Jeffrey Epstein – just a single time, a Richardson spokeswoman says. “They did not know each other well,” said Maddy Mahony, director of media relations for Richardson. “To describe them as friends would be inaccurate.” Richardson is among the many well-known people listed in Epstein’s so-called “little black book,” containing phone numbers and other contacts, and which has become part of court records. Epstein also donated $50,000 to each of Richardson’s two gubernatorial campaigns, in 2002 and 2006. Richardson re-gifted the 2006 campaign donation to charity as sex-crime accusations against Epstein emerged. Mahony said that Richardson, to the best of his recollection, went to Epstein’s Zorro Ranch near Stanley just once, in 2002 during his first run for governor, and that his wife, Barbara Richardson, went with him. The other people present for a dinner or lunch was a person Richardson understood to be an assistant to Epstein and someone Richardson recalls as an “award-winning scientist,” Mahony said. Richardson’s name also has come up in a legal battle between Epstein and Bradley Edwards, a Florida lawyer who represents alleged victims of Epstein in civil litigation. In 2016, Edwards’ own attorney filed a witness list that included Richardson,  Edwards’ affidavit stated: “Richardson was properly identified as a possible witness because Epstein’s personal pilot testified to Richardson joining Epstein at Epstein’s New Mexico ranch. “There was information indicating that Epstein had young girls at his ranch which, given the circumstances of the case, raised the reasonable inference he was sexually abusing these girls since he had regularly and frequently abused girls in West Palm Beach and elsewhere. Richardson had also returned campaign donations that were given to him by Epstein, indicating that he believed there was something about Epstein that he did not want to be associated with.” Mahony... also said Richardson has never been a passenger on an Epstein plane, as former President Bill Clinton and other celebrities were. Epstein also took the Fifth when asked if he had ever socialized with Richardson “in the presence of females under the age of 18.” While in civil suits Epstein has been accused of sexually abusing girls at Zorro Ranch, he has not been charged with committing crimes in New Mexico. The state Attorney General’s Office is now investigating and has been in contact with alleged victims.