Ex-cop who shared cell with Jeffrey Epstein convicted of quadruple murder

Nicholas Tartaglione faces life imprisonment after being found guilty of the killings of Martin Luna, Urbano Santiago, Miguel Luna and Hector Gutierrez, according to a statement from US justice department prosecutors.

Tartaglione, 55, first drew national media attention when he was named as the cellmate of Epstein at the time the disgraced financier died by suicide in 2019 while he was detained on federal charges of sex trafficking girls as young as 14. In that case, Tartaglione was cleared of wrongdoing.

The US government had lined up three associates of Tartaglione to testify against him at his trial in connection with the killings, according to the Associated Press. A fourth associate, an also ex-police officer, had killed himself.