Jeffrey Epstein cellmate, an ex-NY cop, gets 4 life sentences in quadruple murder: ‘Monster’
NY Post
An ex-New York cop who was once Jeffrey Epstein’s cellmate will spend the rest of his life behind bars in the 2016 slayings of four men after a federal judge reportedly blasted him for caring about animals more than the victims he killed.
Nicholas Tartaglione, 56, received four life sentences Monday for arranging the kidnapping and murders of Martin Luna, 41, Luna’s nephews Urbano Santiago, 35, Miguel Luna, 25, and close family friend Hector Gutierrez, 43.
He then buried them in shallow graves on his own property in 2016, federal prosecutors said.
During the sentencing, Tartaglione was admonished by US District Judge Kenneth Karas as a remorseless “monster.”
Karas also slammed the former Briarcliff Manor cop for caring “more about animals than the victims” after his defense team listed their client’s effort saving cats, dogs, pigs, skunks and horses, The JournalNews reported.
“Nicholas Tartaglione brutally and senselessly murdered Martin Luna over money, and then ruthlessly executed Urbano Santiago, Miguel Luna, and Hector Gutierrez simply because they were in the wrong place at the wrong time,” US Attorney for the Southern District of New York Damian Williams said in a statement.
