The Company That Built Jeffrey Epstein's 33,000 Square-Foot Ranch House Builds Nuclear Weapons Facilities and Government Installations, Not Single Residences. So Why Did It Build His?
Bradbury Stamm Construction has built classified facilities at Los Alamos National Laboratory and Kirtland Air Force Base for decades. Epstein was a rare private residential client.
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Not that you’d want to, and I’m certainly not suggesting you should, but you could infer a lot of about child sex trafficker to the rich and famous, Jeffrey Epstein, by looking at his relationship with the company he hired to build the massive main house for him at his remote New Mexico ranch.
You know, the pinche filthy rotten ranch ese. El Zorro Ranch, which my Cuban dad pronounces “Sorrow Ranch” and he’s not wrong, really. The supposed ranch realtor.com later called a farm, where nothing was ever grown, least of all the victims. The ranch with the idiotic name, owned by a smarmy smirky man from Manhattan who might have had difficulty telling a cow from a horse. That ranch. The 7,600-acre Hacienda of Horrors that went unsearched and uninvestigated by anyone and everyone in New Mexico for more than three decades, despite reports to the FBI of child sex trafficking and the secret burial of two girls who were raped to death there.
I found the name of Epstein’s general contractor, the company that built the 33,339 square-foot main house at Zorro Ranch, in Epstein’s personal address book, which is in the DOJ file dump. And I found it totally by mistake, like most of what I’m finding about this place.
See, there’s a whole section in the book for New Mexico contacts. Among them is Jeffrey Epstein’s own name, with “Zorro Ranch” beneath it, followed by 52 phone numbers. I’ve put the redacted version above, though there is an unredacted version in the files, too. The numbers are mostly for the staff at the ranch, and for various guest houses, buildings and rooms at the ranch. There are also numbers for car phones associated with the ranch - and, yes, that insufferable prick had a Hummer (and a Mercedes with two phones, one for the front seat and one for the back.) There’s a number for the stables. There’s the number for the ranch manager. And then, tucked into the middle of all of this mundane ranch mess, is a name that scared the crap out of me: Bradbury Stamm.
If you’re not from around here, you might not think twice about seeing “Bradbury Stamm” tucked in there, between the car phones and greenhouses of Zorro Ranch. Hell, you might even imagine it’s the name of some rough-and-tumble ranch hand who came up as a bronc rider — Ladies and cowboys, let’s all give it up for lil’ ole Bradbury Staaaaammmmmm.
But it you ARE from around here — here being New Mexico, where my family set down roots in 1598 — then you might, as I did, see “Bradbury Stamm” listed as though it were just another low-wage staffer at the ranch and you’d say “What the everloving fuck?” loud enough to wake your dog in the other room. And she’s deaf, and 15 years old.
Folks, Bradbury Stamm is not a person. Nor is it a car, stable, building or room at Zorro Ranch. Rather, Bradbury Stamm is the largest industrial commercial building contractor in the state of New Mexico, according to Albuquerque Business First magazine.
And most importantly, Bradbury Stamm does not build individual private homes.
Bradbury Stamm, under the ownership of Jim King since 1979 and currently run by him and his two daughters, specializes in large-scale military, industrial, and government contract construction. The company was founded in 1923 by O.G. Bradbury, a small Albuquerque contractor. After World War II, Bradbury's son-in-law Robert Stamm joined the firm. Stamm had served with the United States Army Corps of Engineers when it was constructing the Manhattan Project's facilities, including the laboratories at Los Alamos, New Mexico, where America's first nuclear weapons were designed and built.
Bradbury Stamm holds classified construction contracts at the New Mexico nuclear weapons labs that Ghislaine Maxwell's father, Robert Maxwell, penetrated with backdoored spy software on behalf of Israeli military intelligence in the mid-1980s, per publicly available FBI files and the testimony of Rafael Eitan, the Mossad operations chief who ran Maxwell as an asset. Bradbury Stamm brings in hundreds of millions each year in contracts.
(Incidentally, Zorro Ranch’s new owners, Trump loyalists from Texas who purchased the property from Epstein’s estate in 2023, four years after Epstein died in prison, renamed the ranch “Rancho San Rafael.”)
When Bradbury Stamm does take on residential projects, those projects are large apartment complexes — not individual private residences. Their best-known works include things like courthouses, public works buildings, solar arrays, waste treament plants, hospitals and sports arenas. They also build prisons.
A 2017 profile of Bradbury Stamm in ENR Southwest, the construction industry’s authoritative trade publication, noted the classified nature of their most significant work projects explained the firm’s deliberately “subdued national and international profile.”
Meaning they build lots of things the government and private military contractors do not want widely discussed.
This is who Jeffrey Epstein hired to build his ranch house. I know. Weird.
But it’s only weird if you think about the Epstein-New Mexico story the way most people still do — which is to say as a vacation property owned by an eccentric, depraved financier who could do awful things there with impunity. Would a prolific pedophile who, say, wanted to build a prison-like outbuilding with sally ports, bunk beds and bars on the windows “for his girls,” at a ranch with cameras in nearly every room, choose a contractor with close ties to military and government intelligence operations? Not if he didn’t want to get caught, right?
But when you allow for a different possibility, that Zorro Ranch was instead a deliberately positioned military intelligence infrastructure node located at a geographic midpoint equidistant between the two most sensitive nuclear weapons laboratories in the United States, labs from which Ghislaine’s dad was helping to procure top secret information for a foreign government while the U.S. government appeared to look the other way to allow it to happen, and that Epstein’s child sex trafficking ring and financial sponsorship/donation/bribery network was already known to, protected by, and possibly of benefit not just to Israel but perhaps also to agencies like the NSA and CIA — and… well.
The choice of Bradbury Stamm to build Jeffrey Epstein’s Haunted House stops seeming odd entirely.
It starts looking more like exactly the right call.
I was able to figure out Bradbury Stamm was the general contractor of record for Zorro Ranch’s main house from their own documents, email communications by Epstein’s staff, and financial records in the DOJ files. All of these had been included in two separate federal cases, one against Epstein and the other against Ghislaine Maxwell. Everything I’m talking about here is public record. I’m just putting it together and trying to see patterns, coming up with a hypothesis.
In 2013, Epstein’s New York property management firm HBRK Associates commissioned Beaudin Ganze Consulting Engineers — a Colorado-based firm with an Albuquerque office — to assess the failing pool and natatorium system at Zorro Ranch. As part of that assessment, Beaudin Ganze reviewed whatever construction documentation existed for the property. What they found were hand-annotated supplemental sketches produced by Bradbury Stamm in March 1999. The title block on every one reads: Bradbury Stamm Construction — Zorro Ranch, Stanley, New Mexico — Date: 3-8-99. The boilerplate printed on each drawing states: “This set of drawings labeled ‘SUP,’ for supplemental, is prepared by the General Contractor as a summary of verbal information, directives and sketches provided by the owner and his design consultants.”
Those supplemental sketches — hand-annotated summaries of verbal instructions rather than formal architectural drawings — were the primary documentation Beaudin Ganze found when they arrived on site fourteen years after construction. Their report, federal document EFTA01083777, records what the engineers encountered in the Existing Conditions section: “The pool area appears to be an upgrade from the original spa room design. There is little documentation related to the alterations made between the spa room to the present pool room.”
The significance of that finding becomes clear when you understand what kind of company Bradbury Stamm is. Construction firms are contractually required to maintain exhaustive documentation of every material, subcontractor, structural decision, and change order. Yet an independent engineering firm arriving at Zorro Ranch, fourteen years after Bradbury Stamm built it, reported finding almost no documentation of the alterations made. This is likely a significant departure from Bradbury Stamm’s standard professional practice.
When repairs were eventually needed at the ranch, the sparse paper trail created a specific problem: only the people who had built it knew what was there. Local contractors tried and failed to match the original stucco work in 2007-2008. Two more companies were approached in 2009-2010 — one declined the scope entirely, the other couldn’t guarantee a color match. Federal document EFTA00686274, a May 2012 email chain sent by ranch manager Brice Gordon to Epstein’s property managers and copied directly to Jeffrey Epstein at his personal Gmail account — jeevacation@gmail.com — documents what happened next. For the period 2010-2011, Gordon’s written summary records: “Jeffey directed that i contact Bradbury Stamm, ABQ who where the original project company.”
FedEx billing records confirm this was an ongoing relationship long before the 2010 stucco repairs. Federal documents EFTA00219551 and EFTA01315004 are Epstein’s FedEx invoices from February and May of 2001 — two years after construction was nominally complete. In both billing cycles, a sender identified as “BELLA” in Epstein’s office at 457 Madison Avenue sent FedEx Priority Overnight packages to named Bradbury Stamm employees. In May 2001 the recipient was “Arice Fortenbury” at Bradbury Stamm. In February 2001 the package went to Bradbury & Stamm and was signed for by K. Veretto — the same K. Veretto who signed for the May delivery as well.
A closed construction project ends with a final payment and a handshake. What these records document is something different: routine overnight correspondence between Epstein’s personal office and specific named Bradbury Stamm employees, across multiple billing periods, years after the building was done.
One of these invoices — EFTA01315004 — carries SDNY CONFIDENTIAL stamps and SDNY_GM document numbers throughout. It is the copy entered into the Ghislaine Maxwell prosecution record by the Southern District of New York. Federal prosecutors in the Maxwell sex trafficking case made a specific determination that this billing record — the one showing routine correspondence between Epstein’s office and Bradbury Stamm — belonged in their evidentiary file.
I should tell you all, unrelatedly (I think?), Bradbury Stamm has been in the local news lately, because someone impersonating Bradbury Stamm’s Chief Financial Officer Andy Auger was able to convince the Valencia County, New Mexico, finance director, Michelle Hueston-Green, to wire $2,021,099.19 to a fraudulent Chase Bank account.
The money has since disappeared.
Bradbury Stamm is currently the general contractor for Valencia County's new hospital — situated in a booming new tech corridor in the city of Los Lunas, New Mexico, in Valencia County, that now contains a $3.3 billion Meta AI data center campus and an Amazon fulfillment center. The corridor is also home to Pacific Fusion, a nuclear fusion energy company building a $1 billion research and manufacturing campus at Mesa del Sol in Albuquerque — the same master-planned development built by Forest City Covington, whose founding Ratner family maintained documented contact with Epstein's inner circle through at least 2016, according to the Epstein Files Transparency Act dataset. Pacific Fusion draws its core technology directly from innovations developed at Sandia National Laboratories — the same federal nuclear installation that Robert Maxwell penetrated with backdoored surveillance software in the mid-1980s, and that Bradbury Stamm has built classified facilities within for decades.
As reported in the Valencia County News-Bulletin, beginning in April 2025, the impersonator, using Bradbury Stamm’s internal email convention, and in possession of detailed insider knowledge of the hospital contract’s billing cycle, began a nine-month email correspondence with Valencia County’s finance department. It was a targeted, patient social engineering campaign that walked the county’s finance director through every verification protocol she required, including W-9 forms, voided checks, and dated bank letters. Every fraudulent document was reviewed and approved.
On December 30-31, 2025, the county’s finance director, Hueston-Green, transferred the enormous sum to what she has said she thought was Bradbury Stamm. But Bradbury Stamm contacted Valencia County in January to say they never got the money. Hueston-Green has since resigned.
Wire fraud of this nature is typically investigated by the FBI.
But when a Los Lunas resident named Brianne Roybal filed a request under the New Mexico Inspection of Public Records Act in March 2026, trying, she said, to find out where our tax money went, she was stunned to not only NOT get the records, but to instead get an intimidating phone call from a United States Secret Service Special Agent named Mary-Mitchell Sanders.
The New Mexico Foundation for Open Government said publicly that this behavior by the government was totally abnormal. NMFOG Executive Director Christine Barber confirmed as much when Roybal contacted her. NMFOG posted: “As citizens, they have every right to ask for this information and to receive it. And frankly, after a public entity loses millions in taxpayer money, it’s information everyone should know.”
When the News-Bulletin subsequently sought comment from Agent Sanders, the agent said any further communication from the newspaper would need to go through Secret Service headquarters in Washington, D.C. You know. Trump’s guys. Trump, who says journalists are the enemy of the state.
Sanders added that she would be notifying the US Attorney’s Office for the District of New Mexico about the newspaper’s inquiry.
It should be noted that Ryan Ellison was appointed the US Attorney for the District of New Mexico by then-Attorney General Pam Bondi in April 2025, replacing Alexander Uballez who was asked to resign by the Trump administration. In January 2026 a federal judge ruled that Ellison's appointment as "acting" US Attorney was legally invalid because he was never confirmed by the Senate. The judge ruled there is effectively no US Attorney for New Mexico, but that Ellison will assume those responsibilities as First Assistant US Attorney.
So. A local newspaper asking about a $2 million fraud in its own community, and trying to find out why a citizen who merely wondered where her tax money went was harassed by Secret Service, was directed to Washington Secret Service and warned that federal prosecutors would be in touch.
And the name of Bradbury Stamm is in the middle of it all.
So. The recap: The Pugilist has established from the documentary record:
Bradbury Stamm Construction built Zorro Ranch as its general contractor.
Jeffrey Epstein had the company listed with his Zorro Ranch employees in his address book, something he did not do for any other contractors.
The relationship remained active for at least thirteen years by Epstein’s own direction.
The company’s name appears in federal evidence entered into both the DOJ Epstein investigation and the SDNY Maxwell sex trafficking prosecution
Bradbury Stamm holds classified construction contracts at Los Alamos National Laboratory and Kirtland Air Force Base, the same two bases Ghislaine Maxwell’s own father, Robert Maxwell, penetrated with backdoored spy software on behalf of Israeli military intelligence in the mid-1980s, per publicly available FBI files
Bradbury Stamm specializes in military, industrial, and government construction and does not usually build individual private residences.
James King ran the company throughout the entire Epstein period. His daughters run it now.
The below-grade levels of the main house were built by Bradbury Stamm with minimal documentation.
Someone with inside knowledge of Bradbury Stamm’s billing cycle and processes was able to run a 9-month scam that bilked Valencia County of more than $2 million meant to go towards building a new hospital.
A citizen who requested documents in the fraud was met instead with a call from a Secret Service agent.
A reporter who followed up with that agent for a story in the Valencia County News Bulletin was told to go through Secret Service in Washington DC, and told she would be reported to the US Attorney for the District of New Mexico, a man who was installed by the Trump Dept. of Justice without senate approval.
But moving right along.
I did, and do, wonder whether James King of Bradbury Stamm is a member of the extended King ranching family of Stanley. I tried to find out, but no one would answer me other than the receptionist at Bradbury Stamm, who said, simply, “He has nothing to do with those people.”
“Those people” are Bruce King, who was the sitting Governor of New Mexico when he sold the Zorro Ranch property to Epstein in 1993, and his son Gary King, who was party to the sale, and went on to become New Mexico Attorney General, never opening any investigation into Epstein. Gary King rode on Epstein’s plane and took large campaign donations from the convicted sex offender after his conviction, and worked with Epstein’s lawyers to hide donations to his failed run for governor. They hid the donations behind a shell company because they didn’t want to press to realize Gary, who was running on a platform of ending child sex trafficking, had agreed to a $50,000 campaign donation from the world’s most famous child sex trafficker.
I asked to speak to Bradbury Stamm’s communications or public relations contact to learn more about the company’s relationship with Epstein and Zorro Ranch. The receptionist said the company has no such person. She referred me instead to the Vice President of Marketing, Michelle Vering, who is one of Jim King’s daughters. I got Vering’s voicemail. So I called the receptionist back and asked for an email for Vering so I could put the questions in writing. The receptionist said: “Uh uh. No way, ma’am. I am NOT giving you THAT.”
So I left a message.
My call was never returned.
Like so many other things about Jeffrey Epstein’s Zorro Ranch, the silence is its own kind of statement.
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You’re touching the deep state here. This has more to do with providing a foreign government with access to nuclear secrets. The other unsavory stuff was for kompromat.
Another fascinating piece, Alisa! Your ability to examine disparate pieces of evidence and conflate them is phenomenal, IMO. So interesting and disturbing at the same time. Thank you again.