10th Apr 2023

Jeffrey Epstein’s cellmate was just convicted of killing 4 people—he strangled one of them with a zip tie

The feds will seek the death penalty against a former muscle-bound Westchester County cop accused of killing four men over a cocaine deal.

Feds will seek death penalty for retired Westchester cop accused of quadruple murder 

By Stephen Rex Brown, NYDailyNews March 21, 2019

The decision to seek capital punishment against Nicholas Tartaglione was made by U.S. Attorney General William Barr.

Tartaglione, 51, is accused of running a drug ring with the help of former Westchester school security guard Joseph Biggs. Tartaglione and Biggs allegedly killed four men over a 5-kilo cocaine deal in April 2016 and then buried them on a sprawling 178-acre farm in Otisville, Orange County.

He was arrested in December 2016, a day before the four bodies were found buried on property he had previously rented near Otisville.

Epstein told lawyers that cellmate Nicholas Tartaglione ‘roughed him up’

By Bruce Golding and Emily Saul, NYPost August 14, 2019 

Jeffrey Epstein told his lawyers that a hulking ex-cop inflicted the injuries that left him nearly unconscious in his cell last month, a source close to the convicted pedophile’s case told The Post.

Epstein was treated for neck injuries following the July 23 incident inside the Metropolitan Correctional Center in lower Manhattan, law enforcement officials have said.

At the time, Epstein was sharing a cell with former Westchester County cop Nicholas Tartaglione.

Attorney General William Barr ordered the removal of N’Diaye from his post at the MCC after ripping the “serious irregularities at this facility” during a speech the previous day in New Orleans.

Manhattan federal Judge Richard Berman, who was overseeing the child sex trafficking case against Epstein, released a Monday letter to the MCC’s warden in which he said that what happened on July 23 remained an “open question.”

“To my knowledge, it has never been definitively explained what the [Bureau of Prisons] concluded about that incident,” Berman wrote.

Feds no longer seeking death penalty against ex-cop Nicholas Tartaglione

By Johnathan Bandler, WestchesterJournalNews December 14, 2022

Federal prosecutors announced Tuesday they were no longer seeking the death penalty against former Briarcliff Manor police Officer Nicholas Tartaglione in the slayings of four Orange County men six years ago.

The announcement came in court during a discussion about how to handle jury selection at Tartaglione's upcoming trial. Prosecutors got an email about the decision by Department of Justice officials in Washington to withdraw the notice of intent seeking the death penalty, defense lawyer Bruce Barket said later.

No reason was given, but Tartaglione's defense team in May presented an extensive mitigation package to the Justice Department urging that he no longer face capital punishment.

Jeffrey Epstein’s cellmate was just convicted of killing 4 people—he strangled one of them with a zip tie

By TheAssociatedPress

A former New York suburban police officer turned drug dealer was convicted Thursday in the strangulation death of one man and the execution-style murders of three others.

Nicholas Tartaglione was convicted in White Plains federal court after a three-week trial that occurred nearly four years after he briefly was a cellmate of Jeffrey Epstein, a notorious sexual predator and financier.

The bodies were recovered in December 2016, about eight months after the four were killed in Otisville, about 70 miles (113 kilometers) north of Manhattan.

U.S. Attorney Damian Williams said in a statement that Tartaglione masterminded the killings after suspecting that one of the victims, Martin Luna, had stolen money from him.

The prosecutor said he lured Luna into meeting him in a bar in what became a “deadly trap” for the man, two of his nephews and a family friend he brought with him. Prosecutors said in court papers that Tartaglione drove Luna’s body to his Otisville ranch, while his co-conspirators brought the other three men “alive and bound” to the same place.

“What occurred next could only be described as pure terror, as Tartaglione tortured Martin, then forced one of his nephews to watch as Tartaglione strangled Martin to death with a zip tie,” Williams said.

The prosecutor said Tartaglione and two associates then transported the three other men to a remote wooded location, forcing them to kneel before shooting each of them in the back of the head and burying all four in a mass grave. Prosecutors said Tartaglione shot one of the remaining three men himself.

“Tartaglione’s heinous acts represent a broader betrayal, as he was a former police officer who once swore to protect the very community he devastated,” Williams said.

He said the conviction will ensure that “Tartaglione faces a lifetime in federal prison for his unconscionable murder of four men.”

At trial, defense attorneys argued that Tartaglione had nothing to do with the killings and was being used by the government as a convenient fall guy.

In July 2019, Tartaglione shared a Manhattan jail cell with Epstein when the wealthy financier was placed on suicide watch after being discovered with bruises on his neck. Epstein hanged himself weeks later while awaiting trial on sex-trafficking charges.

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Sources:

Epstein's Little Black Book

FBI Files Jeffrey Epstein

Epstein's Private Jet's Flight Manifests

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