The man accused of beating up Jeffrey Epstein in a federal jail has been sentenced for masterminding a quadruple murder that killed a man and 3 witnesses.
The man accused of assaulting sex-trafficking suspect Jeffrey Epstein in a federal jail has been sentenced to four consecutive terms of life in prison for masterminding a brutal 2016 quadruple murder that killed a man who owed him drug money and three bystanders. Nicholas Tartaglione, 56, and a group of bodybuilder co-conspirators tortured and killed Martin Luna, 41, over the purported theft of $250,000 in drug money, according to federal prosecutors.
Tartaglione strangled him with a zip-tie in front of Miguel Luna, the victim's 25-year-old nephew. 'Tartaglione and two of his associates then transported Miguel, Urbano , and Hector — who were simply at the wrong place at the wrong time — to a remote wooded location, forced them to kneel, and executed them with gunshots to the back of the head,' Williams said after Tartaglione's conviction in April 2023.
Santiago was 35, and Gutierrez was 43. Hudson Valley police and the FBI discovered the remains of all four buried on Tartaglione's ranch in Otisville, New York, in December 2016. The killer is a former police officer who received a medical retirement. He was also a bodybuilder who trafficked steroids, cocaine and other drugs around the Hudson Valley region of New York, according to prosecutors. He enlisted two other bodybuilders as muscle to help him collect drug debts.
While awaiting his own trial, he was placed in a jail cell alongside Epstein in Manhattan just weeks before the disgraced financier's death, which has been ruled a suicide. Epstein accused Tartaglione of assaulting him about a month before guards found him hanged from a bedpost, dead in his cell in the jail's Special Housing Unit for high-profile prisoners. Tartaglione was no longer Epstein's cellmate when he died.
report conducted by the Office of the Inspector General chronicled the incident. 'Epstein first told MCC New York staff he thought his cellmate had tried to kill him, but later said he did not know what occurred and did not want to talk about how he had sustained his injuries,' according to the Office of Inspector General report. He spent a day on suicide watch and was cleared, according to authorities.
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