Media outlets cover RGF’s attempts to get NM Ethics Commission to explore Stansbury/ Ghislaine Maxwell connections

A few years ago the Rio Grande Foundation filed an ethics complaint (you can read it here) with the New Mexico Ethics Commission regarding campaign finance concerns over documents linked her to a nonprofit once led by convicted sex trafficker Ghislaine Maxwell, longtime associate of Jeffrey Epstein. RGF had received an anonymous tip that Stansbury was involved in TerraMar Project, a now-defunct nonprofit founded and led by Maxwell. Our hope at the time was that an investigation would be undertaken by the Commission to understand what involvement Stansbury had (if any) with Epstein and Maxwell. Sadly, no such investigation ever took place and allegations relating to Stansbury have swirled since shortly after she was elected to Congress.

Recently, with so much attention focused on the “Epstein list” and other issues relating to the case the Pinon Post wrote a piece citing RGF’s ethics complaint and Daniel Chacon of the Santa Fe New Mexican wrote a story for which we provided public comment. Both stories are worth a read if you are and they include comments from Stansbury as well. What is the truth? We may never find out.

But, as John Block notes in his Pinon Post article:

Only after the Rio Grande Foundation filed a public complaint linking the disclosure to Maxwell did Stansbury amend her form. On April 21, 2021, she quietly changed it to say “Terramar Consulting Group – Santa Fe, NM.” Then, in a 2022 disclosure, she listed a third variation: “Terramar, Inc.,” another Santa Fe entity, which had been incorporated and dissolved by Cristina Mormorunni — behind the “Terramar” entity in Santa Fe — and campaign donor to Stansbury.