Jeffrey Epstein cover-up

[Former cop — and alleged quadruple murderer —] Nicholas Tartaglione, was briefly Epstein’s cellmate at the Metropolitan Correctional Center after the financier was arrested on sex trafficking charges. During that time, depending on which news reports you find credible, Tartaglione either attempted to kill Epstein or prevented Epstein from killing himself the first time he tried suicide.

Facing a potential death sentence, Tartaglione is now fighting in court for access to surveillance video showing what happened in the cell and how staff responded to it. He also wants his legal team to have walk-through access to the cell. His team feels it will help him present mitigating factors if he is convicted.

The problem with that is the notorious prison is currently on lockdown due to contraband issues.

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For reasons that are not entirely clear, the alleged quadruple murderer was paired up in a cell with Epstein.

  McClatchy

I can think of a reason.

Epstein was found incapacitated last July 23 in what was reported to be a suicide attempt. (For reasons equally unclear, Epstein was taken off suicide watch soon afterward and was found dead in his single-inmate cell on Aug. 10.)

Same reason.

Tartaglione’s chief defense lawyer, Bruce Barket, strongly denied that his client harmed Epstein and demanded to both tour the cells and see video that he said will show his client tried to save Epstein during the financier’s abortive suicide try.

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But the Bureau of Prisons, after saying it had located the video, later said it had not and that it was inadvertently destroyed.

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The Epstein events have complicated both the defense and prosecution of Tartaglione, who after nearly four years in jail looks nothing like the Hulk-like bodybuilder he once was.