Epstein’s Former Cellmate Asks for Move From Manhattan Jail
- Tartaglione cites ‘deplorable’ conditions, threats by guards
- Men were cellmates before Epstein found unconscious in July
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The former cellmate of Jeffrey Epstein asked a judge to move him from a Manhattan jail because of “deplorable” conditions and alleged threats by guards to keep his mouth shut about the facility and the disgraced financier’s suicide.
Lawyers for Nicholas Tartaglione, a former police officer charged in a quadruple homicide, asked a federal judge in White Plains, New York, to have their client moved from the Metropolitan Correctional Center. The “continuing and seemingly unresolvable problems” with the conditions of Tartaglione’s confinement make his detention there inappropriate, they said in a letter. Tartaglione has pleaded not guilty to the murder charges.