Longtime employee at Jeffrey Epstein's Zorro Ranch in New Mexico. A payroll analysis lists him under Zorro Development Corp. with a hire date of January 27, 1996 and a salary of $44,000 in 2004, rising to $53,000 in 2007 and 2008 and standing at $47,700 in 2009 and 2010. Ranch papers include a daily maintenance checklist in his name covering vehicles, fuel tanks, roads, the north gate, the hangar runway and the gun cabinet, and emails show him collecting arriving guests at the Albuquerque airport and sending equipment quotes. In an interview transcript Sarah Kellen recalled "kind of a driver/manager. His name was Manolito." The documents cited here concern ranch operations.
Key Findings
- EFTA01114874 / EFTA02397369: Zorro Development Corp. employee salary table: hire date 1/27/1996; salary $44,000 (2004), $46,000, $48,000, $53,000, $53,000, $47,700, $47,700 (2010).
- EFTA00586045 / EFTA00586048: "MANOLITO'S SCHEDULE", a daily ranch maintenance checklist covering fuel tanks, vehicles, roads, the north gate, the gun cabinet and the hangar runway.
- EFTA00559972: "Manolito will be the one picking you up from the airport today. JE will be landing at ABQ at 3:45pm" (7 December 2010).
- EFTA01793515: Proposal to Jeffrey Epstein dated January 31, 2011 on ranch repairs and staffing, signed "Wendy Martinez & Manolito Royal".
- EFTA00928113: Email of 30 December 2011 to Larry Visoski, copied to Wendy Martinez, subject "zorro mule", sending price quotes.
- EFTA00939557: A 12 July 2012 email about staff pay states "Manolito's salary was 51k, on ranch".
- Sarah Kellen interview transcript: "There was, like, a -- kind of a driver/manager. His name was Manolito. I don't remember his last name." (data/transcripts/sarah-kellen-interview.html)