Inmate of Epstein had illicit phone in cell who is an Ex-cop, Nick Tartaglione. Charged with killing 4 men in a drug deal. Horrific smell gave his crimes away from burial on his land.
A Guardian of Children shared out this thread on a post concerning Epstein's arrest.
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Here is some info concerning Nicholas Tartaglione
Former New York State policeman charged with killing four men in drug deal
A RETIRED US cop has been charged with drug offences and the murder of four men, and he might’ve got away with it if it wasn’t for the horrific smell.
A RETIRED police officer has been charged with killing four men, whose bodies were dug up on Tuesday from a farm he bought after neighbours reported a horrific stench.
Nick Tartaglione, who was a New York State police officer, is accused of the “gangland-style” killings of Hector Gutierrez, Martin Luna, Miguel Luna and Urbano Santiago who were last seen in the town of Chester in Orange County, New York State, in April.
Tartaglione is accused of murdering the men, who police said at the time of their disappearance worked in construction or farming, at the Likquid Lounge, which is owned by a Michael Tartaglione, who is related to Nick Tartaglione, according to Facebook pages linked to the accused.
Authorities used a backhoe to excavate the bodies on Tuesday afternoon on the 72-hectare farm at Otisville, New York, that Tartaglione bought for more than $500,000 last year. He retired from the police in October 2008 with an annual pension of $65,176, The Journal News reported. He had applied earlier this year to join Mount Vernon Police Department and give up his pension.
“It really smelled of death, but then it disappeared after a couple of days,” a neighbour, who did not want to be identified, told the New York Daily News.
Tartaglione, who has pleaded not guilty and remains in custody, could face the death penalty or life in prison without parole if convicted, officials told the Daily News.
The ex-cop was arraigned in Manhattan Federal Court
Back in December of 2016 according to Lohud,
4 bodies found at home of ex-Briarcliff Manor cop Nick Tartaglione
Tartaglione, 49, was arrested Monday on drug conspiracy charges accusing him of killing the four in April. On Tuesday, state police and the FBI converged on the property on Old Mountain Road in Otisville to search for their remains.
Four bodies believed to be the missing men allegedly killed by retired Briarcliff Manor cop Nicholas Tartaglione during a busted drug deal in April were recovered Tuesday on property he rented in Orange County.
Tartaglione is charged in a five-count indictment for a conspiracy to distribute at least 5 kilograms of cocaine and "the senseless murder" of the four men, which was part of that conspiracy, U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara said in a statement. The former cop pleaded not guilty to the charges at his arraignment Monday.
artaglione and others had allegedly conspired to sell cocaine from June 2015 to April 2016, prosecutors said.
Martin Luna, Urbano Santiago, Miguel Luna and Hector Gutierrez were killed in and around a bar called the Likquid Lounge in Chester as part of that drug activity, officials said. Some of them were merely in the wrong place at the wrong time, officials said.
The bar is run by Tartaglione's brother, Graziano said.
"These four men had not been seen or heard from since the day of their alleged murder," Bharara said. "We hope that today's arrest brings some measure of comfort to the victims' families and loved ones."
All four men were last seen in a 2010 Chevrolet Equinox that was believed to have been parked in the Chester Diner parking lot between 2:30 p.m. and 3:00 p.m. on April 11, Middletown police said in the spring. A relative of Miguel Luna spoke with him by telephone at about 5 p.m. that day but there was no communication with any of the four men after that, police said.
In yet another article titled,
FBI searching second Tartaglione property
clip inside link at end of story
The farm, on Long Lane in Crawford, was bought by Tartaglione for $450,000 in September.
FBI agents on Wednesday continued to put together their case against Nicholas Tartaglione, the ex-Briarcliff Manor cop accused of killing four men after a drug deal went bad, as their search led them to a 65-acre Orange County farm he owned.
The men disappeared April 11 and authorities now believe they were killed that day at a Chester, New York bar owned by Tartaglione’s brother. On Tuesday, the day after Nicholas Tartaglione pleaded not guilty in federal court, the bodies of the four men were discovered at an Otisville property where Tartaglione had lived.
The farm being searched Wednesday, on Long Lane in Crawford, was bought by Tartaglione for $450,000 in September, according to Orange County land records.
Tartaglione, who had retired on disability, had told The Journal News in recent months that he was trying to return to work as a police officer. But his employment history was apparently so toxic that Briarcliff went four years without hiring any police officers after he was cleared to come out of retirement and a state directive put him at the top of the Civil Service list.
He still held out hope in recent months that Mount Vernon might hire him.
Now, the 49-year-old Yonkers native is charged in a five-count indictment for a conspiracy to distribute at least 5 kilograms of cocaine and "the senseless murder" of the four men, which was part of that conspiracy, U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara said in a statement. Tartaglione and others had allegedly conspired to sell cocaine from June 2015 to April 2016, prosecutors said.
Martin Luna, Urbano Santiago, Miguel Luna and Hector Gutierrez were killed in and around a bar called the Likquid Lounge in Chester as part of that drug activity, officials said. Authorities have said that one or two may have been involved in drug activity but that the others were simply in the wrong place at the wrong time.
On Wednesday morning at his home in Yonkers, Nicholas Tartaglione Sr. refused to comment about his son's arrest or the recovery of the bodies. He did say his other son, Michael, had not been implicated in the slayings and was no longer affiliated with the bar.
The ex-cop is charged with one count of conspiracy to distribute and possess with intent to distribute 5 kilograms or more of cocaine, and four counts of murder in furtherance of a conspiracy to distribute 5 kilograms or more of cocaine.
He is being held at the Westchester County Jail. A federal magistrate judge has issued a medical directive to jail officials that Tartaglione needs to continue receiving "suboxin to treat opioids," according to court records.
Tartaglione’s law enforcement career followed an unconventional arc and was marked by scandal and allegations of brutality.
In February 1993, at the age of 25, the Yonkers native was hired by the Mount Vernon Police Department. Mayor Ronald Blackwood, wary of the badge-drain that had cost the department more than three dozen young officers in the previous six years, urged Tartaglione and five other recruits at their swearing in not to use the department as a stepping stone to better jobs elsewhere.
But a year later, Tartaglione transferred out to join the Yonkers Police Department. He wasn’t there long, either. In September 1994, he became a part-time officer in Pawling. Three months later, Pawling hired him full-time.
In April 1996 he resigned and a month later he was hired in Briarcliff Manor.
Tartaglione was one of four ex-police officers who sued Pawling and several officials in 1997, alleging retaliation for their efforts to form a police union. He claimed he was essentially forced to resign when officials suggested to him that his position was going to be eliminated. His claims were dismissed by a federal judge.
In 1999, Briarcliff Manor officials suspended Tartaglione following his arrest on perjury charges accusing him of lying at a DMV hearing about a drunk-driving arrest he had made. He was acquitted in the criminal case but still fired on departmental charges. The village was forced to bring him back in 2003 – and pay him $320,000 in back pay - after he successfully challenged his dismissal.
Tartaglione also had come under fire for aggressive behavior, and was sued by local activist and cable tv show host Clay Tiffany. Tiffany, who was arrested by Tartaglione several times, claimed that Tartaglione had roughed him up on more than one occasion. Tiffany eventually received more than $1.1 million in settlements of his federal lawsuits against the village and Tartaglione.
Many oddities surround this story!
artaglione retired in 2008 and was granted a disability pension by the state Comptroller’s Office based on a work injury that the state determined left him unable to continue police work.
But two years later, he requested a re-examination, and the Comptroller’s Medical Board made the rare determination he could go back to work. He was placed at the top of the eligible list for rehiring by Briarcliff Manor – but for the four years until the eligibility ran out, the village did not hire any police officers.
When he was not hired the state retirement system was required to restore him to his disability pension, said Tania Lopez, a spokeswoman for the Comptroller’s Office.
Unfairly denied?
Tartaglione complained several times to The Journal News over the past year that he had been unfairly denied the job because he was fit to work and was considering legal action. In the meantime, he said, his application to join the Mount Vernon Police Department was pending.
On Nov. 19, 2015, he texted a reporter: “I currently run a horse and dog rescue. I own 180 acres in Orange County where we have at any given time 20 plus horses and 30 plus dogs all looking for homes…. I train 5-6 days a week at gym or martial arts. As you can see I’m not injured in any way.”
Four days later, he asked "would u be interested in the story of them keeping me home on taxpayers money. It truly is a huge crime they are committing.”
On Aug. 11, 2016, Tartaglione texted: "We are filing a complaint w attorney general this week against briarcliff because they are basically using tax dollars to pay for cops to work in my stead. I can send u a copy when it’s filed.”
The reporter asked how his bid to join the Mount Vernon police force was going, and he responded: “Good. Mayor has been busy w some bs so it’s dragging a little bit but should happen soon I hope”
Phillip Zegarelli, who became Briarcliff Manor's village manager in 2009, would say only that Tartaglione’s retirement was part of a settlement with the village – though he would not elaborate. He acknowledged that the village had fought Tartaglione’s effort to rejoin the department.
“There was never any question, any self doubt, that the village did the right thing in closing the issue and detaching Mr. Tartaglione,” he said.
He said there was no inkling before Tuesday that Tartaglione was under investigation of any kind, let alone as a suspect in a quadruple homicide.
“It floored many of us that this is how it went,” Zegarelli said.
PAST CONTROVERSY: Tartaglione accused of beating gadfly Clay Tiffany
When you go here, most is redacted. Wonder why.
https://www.lohud.com/story/news/crime/2016/12/21/fbi-searching-nick-tartaglione-property/95704780/
In an article titled,
Ex-cop's murder case latest blemish for Briarcliff police
You find from Jan. 5, 2017
artaglione, who was arrested Monday for an alleged quadruple homicide in Orange County, is not the first alumnus of the department to run afoul of the law — or to even be suspected of murder.
Ronald Langer, a disgraced former sergeant in Briarcliff Manor, has remained the prime suspect in the 1987 death of Sherri Orofino, a Dutchess County woman whose remains were found near the Croton Reservoir five months after she went missing while driving home on the Taconic State Parkway.
What a tangled web these people weave. Will give you this link, but guess what. . .also taken out. You can only see What it was supposed to be about.
****Convicted cop and murder suspect works for state**
See for yourself here, https://www.lohud.com/story/news/investigations/2015/10/07/ronald-langer-still-suspected-murder/72735542/
This is all that can be seen,
At 61, Ronald Langer has put together an impressive second act — an attractive wife, three young sons and a state job....
Was able to find this,
On his 1994 conviction for federal civil rights violations:
"I have lived for nearly 25 years under the burden of wrongful misdemeanor convictions for crimes that either did not exist or that I did not commit. Although I resent these wrongful convictions, if I am going to say that I believe in my country and its system of justice, I have no choice (but) to accept those convictions and move on with my life. By the same token, if I am going to say I believe in my country and its system of justice, I have long since paid my debt to society for these misdemeanor convictions and I should be allowed to move on with my life, like anyone else convicted of minor, non-violent crimes."
On remaining a suspect in Sherri Orofino’s death:
"For the state police to even infer that I am a 'suspect' to anything after nearly 30 years, when there is no link between me and this woman, lacks credibility.Though never charged with any act in connection with this woman's death, I have been tried and convicted 'in the press' through 27 years worth of inaccurate and inflammatory newspaper articles. Although I believe it's doubtful that the truth will ever be discovered about that case, my daily prayer is that the circumstances of her death are uncovered so that her family might have closure and so that I might have the shadow lifted from over my head that has upended my life for nearly 30 years."
Was he wrongfully convicted?
Who was the Real murderer?
"With full awareness of the state's unfounded allegations, the Briarcliff Police Department had been fully supportive during the months that this investigation was going on (February to December, 1988). I was even promoted to detective during this time. Their support diminished only after articles about the case began appearing in the newspaper.
I decided to resign because I believed there was no longer a future for me in the department and I decided to utilize my experience in the private sector. My decision to quit came even before the departmental charges were filed. Based on my department's full year of support while they knew of the investigation, there was no indication to me that the charges would end in a certain discharge. The filing of these charges did not affect the decision to quit that I had already made.
Langer spent time in federal prison for violating the civil rights of women he illegally pulled over on the parkway, behavior that helped put him in the spotlight in the Orofino investigation.
Langer, who resigned from Briarcliff Manor in 1989, has never been charged in Orofino's death. He now works for the state Department of Labor in Endicott.
In a related story, see Epstein's recent possible suicide attempt (or take out) with many sources here,
Jeffrey Epstein found semi conscious, possible markings on neck and others report his face was blue. Suicide Watch?
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Sources,
https://www.lohud.com/story/news/crime/2016/12/21/fbi-searching-nick-tartaglione-property/95704780/
https://www.lohud.com/story/news/investigations/2015/10/07/ronald-langer-words/73510646/
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