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Mega Edition: Who Decided To Put Nicholas Tartaglione In A Cell With Jeffrey Epstein? (Part 2) (4/25/26) · The Vault: The Epstein Files

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Speaker 1: What's up, everyone, and welcome back to the Epstein Chronicles.
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On tonight's episode, we're going to talk about Nicholas Tartaglioni
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a little bit and how he will not face the
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death penalty in his homicide case. Now, Nicholas Tartaglioni, for
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those of you who might have forgotten, was the man
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who was sharing a cell with Jeffrey Epstein the first
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time around when Epstein allegedly attempted to kill himself. Now
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the question is, why was a man like Nicholas Tartaglioni
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in a cell with Jeffrey Epstein in the first place,
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a man who was alleged to have committed some pretty
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serious crimes against some pretty serious people over drugs. Does
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that sound like the proper cellmate for one of your
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most prized inmates. Somebody that you know is a risk,
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somebody that you know could be extorted or hurt or
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whatever else you want to add into that mix. That's
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the guy you want to put into the cell with Epstein. Right,
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But somehow this guy who was looking at four homicides
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ends up in a cell with Jeffrey Epstein and then
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just coincidentally, Epstein decides he's going to attempt to kill
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himself with this guy as his cellmate. Now, before we
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get into the article, the updated article from a couple
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of weeks ago about Tartaglioni and his current case status,
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I wanted to do a quick refresher. So I have
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an article from the New York Post, a relatively short
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article that details what Epstein told his lawyers and stuff
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the day that he allegedly tried to kill himself in
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that jail cell. And it certainly doesn't match up with
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what the official narrative ended up being. So let's jump
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into the first article from the New York Post and
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let see what Bruce Golding and Emily Saul have to say. Headline,
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Epstein told lawyers that sell may Nicholas Tartaglioni rouffed them up. Now,
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why would Jeffrey Epstein tell his lawyers that he got
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ruffed up by this dude? If he didn't, if he was,
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if he attempted sue, if he attempted suicide like the
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official narrative says, then why would he even bring Tartaglioni
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into it? And furthermore, Tartaglioni says, well, I've saved his life. Well,
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if that's the case, why wouldn't you stop him from
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even making the attempt. You're in that little cell together.
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You mean to tell me you aren't aware that he
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was attempting to kill himself. See, none of it make sense.
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And the official narrative that they've pitched to us, that
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doesn't make sense either. There's never been a proper look
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at what went on here as far as the public goes. Oh,
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I'm sure that everybody trusts Bill Barr, right, Republicans, Democrats,
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everybody loves Darth Barr said. Nobody ever, certainly have never
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trusted Bill Barr, And honestly, I don't know anybody who does.
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So him telling me that he saw video or he
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has confirmed this or that is not very reassuring. And frankly,
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I don't believe what he has to say. Jeffrey Epstein
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told his lawyers that a hulking ex cop inflicted the
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injuries that left him nearly unconscious in his cell. Last month,
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A source close to the convicted pedophiles case told The Post,
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I mean, how how isn't there more being made out
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of that? When you talk to the legacy media, you
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know you had like the New York Times article that
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tried to wrap things up with a nice, pretty little bow,
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talking about how you know it's been solved and there's
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nothing here. I don't buy any of that, right, especially
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this first time around. What happened in this cell the
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first time around is even more dodgy than him dying
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in the cell alone. You don't just get ruffed up
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when you're in a cell with a guy like tartag
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Leoni on your own. You didn't just try and commit
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suicide all of a sudden. I just don't buy it.
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And there has never been a real good or proper
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examination into any of this. The footage gets lost, the
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cameras aren't turned on. I mean, are you kidding me?
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Right now? Epstein was treated for neck injuries following the
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July twenty third incident inside the Metropolitan Correctional Center in
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Lower Manhattan. Law enforcement officials have said at the time,
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Epstein was sharing a cell with former Westchester County cop
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Nicholas Tartaglioni, who faces the death penalty a death penalty
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trial in four drug related slayings upstate. Now again, this
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dude clipped people over drug trafficking, and the people that
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he ended up killing according to these reports, according to
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what prosecutors say, they were operators for the cartel. So
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that tells you the kind of serious player that Tartaglioni is.
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You don't get involved in something like this as a
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trafficker millions of dollars kilo's worth of blow and then
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have the audacity to execute operators from the cartel if
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you're not a serious person who's capable of serious, serious crimes.
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So again I ask you, is this the right guy
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to be in a jail cell with Jeffrey Ebstein. Epstein
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told his lawyers that the cop roughed him up, and
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that's why they got him off Suicide Watch, the sore, said.
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Tartaglione's lawyer, Bruce Barkett disputed that account, saying I spoke
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to his lawyers and they never hinted at that to me.
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But he must have said something to get off Suicide Watch.
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Of course he said something. This dude definitely tuned them up,
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in my opinion, and I honestly believe that I don't
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think that Epstein had any desire to kill himself, certainly
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not at this point. This first attempt. Now the second
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attempt or the second time around when he ended up
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dying still debatable. I've said it a million times. I'm
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not too sure what happened in that cell. We haven't
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seen all of the evidence. Can we see some of
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the video please. All we're going on is what the
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official narrative has given us. And frankly, again, I have
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little faith in the official narrative. But this first time around,
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when he was in the cell with Tartaglioni, none of
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that makes sense to me. None of it has ever
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made sense to me. And the fact that it was
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basically brushed under the rug in the aftermath of Epstein's death,
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that doesn't make sense to me either. I do know
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that Nick was not brought up on any charges at
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all in the institution, so they cleared them bark It said,
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Oh well, that's that's nice, you know, because the institution
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is just the infallible institution. They cleared him because they
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didn't want to deal with it, right, more egg on
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their face. Oh man, now we got to deal with
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this shit. Epstein gets assaulted by this idiot we put
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in the cell with him. And meanwhile, another thing about Tartaglioni,
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which is crazy, is a few weeks before he was
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even put into the cell with Jeffrey Epstein. They found
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a contraband cell phone in this dude's cell. So you
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get moved to a better environment, meaning off the main line,
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and put into a cell with Jeffrey Epstein for what reason.
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The dude should have been in solitary confinement by himself
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if he was found with contraband, But somehow he ends
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up in this cell with Jeffrey Epstein, and there's still
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again no logical explanation for any of that. It's simply
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patently false to say that Epstein did anything other than
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to try to kill himself at least twice and succeeded.
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When he succeeded, Barket added, we were a little worried
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that we would make up something to get out of
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Suicide Watch or try and argue for Bell, But it's
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pretty clear what happened given the end result here. Oh yeah,
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pretty clear what happened anything to get your client off right,
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And now that we know that Tartaglioni is not even
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going to face the death penalty, it's probably a good
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thing that they fought this because he could have he
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could have got stuck with another charge here if he
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was found at fault, but I highly doubt that anyone
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even investigated it. Remember Tartaglione didn't decide to put himself
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into the jail cell with Jeffrey Epstein. The administrators of
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the facility did. Who made that call? Can we talk
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to that person? Can that person get put under oath
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in front of Congress? Can we have real examinations of
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what went on here? Or no. The revelation came as
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Manhattan Federal Judge Richard Berman, who was overseeing the child
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sex trafficking case against Epstein, released a Monday letter to
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MCC's Warden in which he said that what happened on
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July twenty third remained an open question and it still
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does even Berman, the judge, says it was an open question.
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So where are all of these hard charging reporters that
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are all over the place allegedly how about you dig
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into this part of the story. To my knowledge, it
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has never been definitively explained what the Bureau of Prisons
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concluded about that incident. Berman wrote, absolutely right. In a
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response dated that same day, Warden, Lemene and Die said
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that an internal investigation was completed, but noted that current
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investigations by the FBI and the Justice Department Office of
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Inspector General will include this incident as well. Yeah, did it.
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Let me ask you a question. With that great report
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by the New York Times, did it include anything about Tartaglioni.
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It certainly didn't. And I asked the author at the
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time about that too. Of course, you know, never get
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anywhere with it. It's just almost laughable at this point,
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because if I don't laugh about it, it'll be completely
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frustrating the way they go about it. There are certain
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things in this story that need to be exposed, and
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this is certainly one of them. This whole entire episode
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here of Tartaglioni in the jail cell with Epstein is
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just so out of control. Accordingly, I cannot divulge any
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information about the prior investigation at this time. And DIY said,
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and remember he told that to the judge. It wasn't
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like someone asked him, you know, at a press conference.
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Hey can you tell us about what happened with Tartaglioni.
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This is the judge asking, and he says, nah, sorry,
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there's an investigation under way. The same excuse they use
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all the time when they don't want you to know
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what's going on. On Tuesday, Attorney General William Barr ordered
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the removal of Ndie from his post at the MCC
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after ripping the serious irregularities at this facility during a
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speech the previous day in New Orleans. Oh yeah, you know,
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because Bill Barr is so great at his job. How
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did it work out for everybody with that moron running
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the show? All right? So, now that we have the
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refresher course of what Tartaglioni's role is here and the
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question asked why he was in the cell with Epstein,
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jump into this next article from the Lowhood. And this
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is a paper from Westchester County, New York, the Lower
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Hudson Valley. And this is an article that was authored
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by Jonathan Bandler, headline lawyer's hopeful Nicholas Tartaglioni won't face
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death penalty as trial set and homicide case. Twelve times
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since last March, the US Department of Justice has reversed
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course and notified accused killers they would no longer face
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the death penalty. And I'm not really too big on
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the death penalty, to be honest with you, unless there's
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overwhelming evidence of course then for sure, But I just
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think that there's way too many instances of their being
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shoddy evidence when it comes to something as serious as
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taking someone's life. But when you look at cases like
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this and the evidence is overwhelming, I honestly think that
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this is the perfect example of what a death penalty
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case should be. Multiple homicides, multiple people murdered. Dude's an
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next copy knows better. So I would think long and
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hard if I was the one passing the sentence here
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or dropping the judgment on him, if we were talking
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about the death penalty, definitely somebody that, in my opinion,
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you would have to at least entertain the possibility. That
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is a promising sign for opponents of capital punishment, but
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a far cry from the end of the federal death
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penalty they had expected when Joe Biden became president. The
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piecemeal approach offers a glimmer of hope for Nicholas Tartaglioni,
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the ex police officer charged in White Plans Federal court
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in the killing of four men in Orange County in
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twenty and sixteen. So I guess when you're staring at
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a death sentence, any kind of hope is good. I
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can't imagine sitting there every day wondering what your fate's
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gonna be. But also I would never kill anybody and
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find myself sitting in a jail cell. But anyway, so
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there's that. Tartaglioni's trial has finally been scheduled for March
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twenty twenty three, nearly seven years after the quadruple homicide,
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but it could be moved up if the defense succeeds
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in getting the Department of Justice to reverse course on
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the death penalty. So he's being charged with the death penalty.
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Now the question is is that death penalty going to
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stick or is he just going to end up getting
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life in prison, because I highly doubt he's going to
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get off considering the evidence that they have, I highly
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highly doubt he's going to get off. The lead defense lawyer,
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Bruce Barkett, has declined to reveal any details of the
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defense case for why his client should not face capital punishment,
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just as he was mum four years ago when a
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similar similar effort failed under the Trump administration. Tartaglioni was
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a retired briarcliff manor cop who had also worked in
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Yonkers Mount Verning and Paul. So he's from my neck
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of the woods. And I've told the story before on
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the podcast, but one of my uncles was actually friendly
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with uh Tartaglioni's brother growing up, and they used to
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call him Tat tat in the neighborhood. Now, I wish
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I had more to give you, but that's all my
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uncle really had. They weren't, like, you know, super close
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or anything, just like neighborhood friends. But it's a small world,
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isn't it. And when I first was looking at this
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case and and and you know, saw this part of it,
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I just shook my head considering where this guy was from.
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I mean, it's crazy. I know a lot of cops
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that work in Yonkers, and for the most part, they're
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all really good people. So just doesn't shock me though
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to see a cop involved in something like this. Unfortunately,
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there's always good and there's always bad, no matter what
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the profession is. And some people like Tartaglioni, they get
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things a bit twisted up in their head and they
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think that they're above the law when they're suppose to
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be enforcing the law. He was arrested in December twenty sixteen,
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eight months after four men disappeared from a bar in
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Chester in Orange County that was run by Tartaglioni's brother.
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The day after his arrests, the bodies of Martin Luna,
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Miguel Luna, Urbano Santiago, and Hector Gutiades were discovered by
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the FBI and state police on property Tartaglioni had been
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renting at the time of the disappearance. So you see
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about the evidence here, right, pretty grim when you're talking
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about against Tartaglioni. You know, you get these bodies are
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found on your property that you're renting after being at
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a bar that your brother owns. It doesn't look good
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for you. Doesn't look too good for you at all.
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Tartaglioni is charged with conspiracy to sell cocaine and kidnapping
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and murder and furtherance of the conspiracy. Now what's interesting
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is if Tartaglioni gets convicted of this, with which I
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think he will, he's gonna have to hit the federal line.
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And A he's an ex cop, so that's a mark
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against him. B If he you know, if he did
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clip these people, which it looks like he did. These
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are cartel operatives. So you know that the cartel hasn't
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forgotten that Tartaglioni was trying to steal their blow, you know,
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trying to get in on their action. So they're going
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to have access to him in whatever federal facility he
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ends up in. If it ends up federal, or even
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if it's in New York, they definitely have a way
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to reach out and touch you. So you got to
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think that Tartaglioni, you'll get pceed up if and when
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his prison sentence starts. According to the prosecutors, Martin Luna
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had owed money for a drug deal. He was lured
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to the Liquid Lounge on April eleventh, twenty sixteen, and
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brought with him his nephew Miguel, his niece's fiance Santiago,
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and family friend Gutierrez, none of whom had anything to
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do with the drug deal. Well, that's questionable at best, Right,
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you're going there for a drug deal. What do you
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think he's bringing you there for. Obviously he was probably
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bringing these dudes there for muscle, right, But still does
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that mean they deserve to get killed over a drug
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deal gone bad? Absolutely not. And anybody who is capable
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of killing people over drugs is most certainly capable of
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assaulting a guy like Jeffrey Epstein in a confined environment
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like a jail cell. No At the bar, Prosecutors alleged
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Tartaglioni strangled Martin Luna with a zip tie before taking
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his body to the property. His co conspirators brought the
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others there, where each of the three were shot in
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the head. Prosecutors accused Tartaglioni of shooting one of the men.
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Biden's campaign pledged to end capital punishment at the federal level,
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has so far not led to an administration policy. Yeah,
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there's been a whole lot of that. Huh. Unfortunately, when
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we had the change over from Trump to Biden, didn't
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I tell you, folks, it's going to be the same old,
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same old. Don't expect these radical changes, because that's not
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how it works. Those who were in power, the very
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few who were in control, they're still going to be
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in control no matter who the president is. Last summer,
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Attorney General Merrick Garland, another failure, issued a moratorium on
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federal executions while a review of Trump administration death penalty
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protocol changes was ongoing. But there has been no blanket
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policy on emptying federal death row or seeking the death
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penalty and pending in future cases. Like I said earlier,
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I think that we have to be very, very careful
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when it comes to sentencing somebody to death. And if
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the Biden administration is taking their time to review this,
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I think that's a good idea. Take as much time
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as you need to review something as serious as this.
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It looks like Garland is trying to fix the death penalty.
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It doesn't look like he's trying to end the death penalty,
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said Robert Dunham, director of the Death Penalty Information Center
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in Washington, DC. He pointed to conflicting signals that make
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it difficult to predict where the DOJ is headed. And
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you see that a lot with the Department of Justice
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in general, a lot of conflicting signals. You don't know
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which way they're going to go. One person comes in
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and you have a drastic change. Then the next person
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comes in, they change it. There's no consistent consistency and
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certainly no equity in the law. On the one hand,
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prosecutors have opted not to seek the death penalty in
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some recent cases. One involved the killing of a law
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enforcement officer in California, a case in which the Trump
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DOJ would have likely sought the death penalty. On the
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other hand, the DOJ is still defending death sentences on appeal. Well,
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they have to. What are they going to do if
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it's on appeal. They can't just drop all of those
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appeals in the middle of the cases. They'll get absolutely
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fried by the media and pundits and people looking to
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score political points. Well, one percent, you can't just drop
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that stuff on appeal. You have to see it through.
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And let's be honest, a lot of the people who
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we're talking about here are pretty bad people for the
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most part. Now, don't get me wrong. There's definitely some
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innocent people who get caught up and end up on
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death row. And that for me is enough to be
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very very guarded and very strict about the death penalty
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and who gets it. Cassandra sub Stubbs, director of the
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Capital Punishment Project at the American Civil Liberties Union, said
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the moratorium at the gradual and the gradual about face
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on seeking the death penalty or a good start, but
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the lack of more extensive policy decisions is frustrating. It's
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encouraging that it's moving in the right direction, she said.
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The discouraging piece is, while it's a significant number, it's
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only half of the pending cases. The DOJ's withdrawal of
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the of the twelve notices of intent came in nine
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cases spread out around the country, in states that have
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the death penalty and those that don't. So again, whenever
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you get a new regime that comes in, they go
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over everything that the previous regime did with a fine
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tooth comb, and more times than not they get rid
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of a lot of policies and institute their own. That's
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just what happens when people get elected. Well, there is
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no clear common thread, one possible pattern does not bode
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well for Tartaglioni. None of the other cases involved more
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than two victims, and that's a big deal. I think
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that's a huge deal. Honestly, when you have multiple victims,
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we're talking serial killer here type shit, right, What is
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it more than three murders or whatever spread out during
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a certain period of time for a serial killer. But
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the point stands, if you've got three or four bodies
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under your belt, that's definitely not a good look for
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a jury or people who are going to decide your fate.
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Tartaglionis is one of six death penalty cases of the
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twenty three still pending that have at least four victims.
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Barkett would not say whether the defense has offered new
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details related to Tartaglioni, or whether they are relying on
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similarities to any of the other withdrawn cases to convince
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the government. Well, maybe you should give them some evidence
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about Jeffrey Epstein. Maybe you should talk about that a
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little bit. Nicholas Tartaglioni. And I'm real interested to see
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what kind of sentence he gets here. If he gets
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a soft sentence, boy, that's gonna set some people off,
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I'll tell you that much. It is possible that they
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are citing the harsh conditions of pre trial detention Tartaglioni
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faced at the troubled Metropolitan Correctional Center in Lower Manhattan.
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Life saving efforts by Tartaglioni when he was in law
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enforcement are almost certainly part of the defense mitigation efforts,
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and his lawyers could be including details of when Tartaglioni
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shared a cell with financier pedophile and accuse sex trafficker
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Jeffrey Ebstein All Boy That would be interesting, wouldn't it.
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That would be real interesting, wouldn't it. I wonder what
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he has to share about that. Barkett has said that
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Tartaglioni intervened during Epstein's failed suicide attempt in July twenty nineteen.
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Tartaglioni was no longer his cell mate when Epstein succeeded
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in killing himself the following month. Now, again, why was
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Tartaglioni in that jail cell? Was he put there to
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send a message to Jeffrey Epstein? Look, bro, if you
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don't kill yourself, this is what you have to look
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forward to the whole entire time you're in jail, So
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you better fucking kill yourself. And then, knowing that he'd
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get moved out of the cell, he just denied that
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he ever did anything. That's certainly a scenario that has
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legs in my opinion. It certainly is a scenario that
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bears the weight of the facts, and short of any
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other evidence being provided or quality theories being provided, That's
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what I'm working with right now. This dude definitely was
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in there to rough Jeffrey Epstein up or ended up
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roughing Jeffrey Epstein. Up for whatever reason. But to think
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that this guy is some kind of hero who stepped
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in to save Epstein's life while he was trying to
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kill himself is just ridiculous. US District Judge Kenneth Carris
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was adamant during a conference last month that Tartaglioni's trial
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would begin next March at the latest. Barkett assured him
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that the effort to complete the deauthorization package would not
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distract the defense team from moving forward on other pre
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trial motions. To Caris, the defense and prosecutors reached agreement
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on the schedule leading up to the trial, but they
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differed on how long of a break they should have
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between the guilt phase and the penalty phase if Tartaglioni
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is convicted of any of the death eligible charges. Prosecutors
24:51
wanted a week. The defense sought up to four weeks.
24:55
So they'll probably split the baby and it'll probably end
24:58
up being two weeks. That's what we saw during the
25:02
lead up to the Maxwell trial, and it seems to
25:05
be the way these things work. The judge usually splits
25:08
the baby here and they'll get half of what they want.
25:12
It appeared Kris might disappoint both sides. He said he
25:16
was inclined to start a penalty phase a day or
25:18
two after the initial verdict, worried that a longer break
25:21
would be unfair to the jurors. Well, that's what he
25:24
wants and what he's saying he wants. But like I said,
25:27
I wouldn't be shocked to see this end up ten
25:29
fourteen days, you know, between the two. So we'll have
25:33
to see and we'll continue to follow it because, like
25:35
I said earlier, I think this is a portion of
25:38
the situation with Epstein in the mcc at that jail
25:42
cell that needs more discussion, needs to be looked at
25:46
in a more clinical fashion with a surgical type of
25:52
eye because there is no excuse or reason that anyone
25:57
has presented to me as to why Epstein should be
26:00
sharing a cell with Nicholas dar TAGLIONI. All right, folks,
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that's gonna do it for tonight's update on the way
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some context episodes like always and then tomorrow morning, right
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I will talk to you all tomorrow and I hope
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you all have a great night. The conditions plus what's
26:43
up everyone, and welcome back to the Epstein Chronicles. A
26:47
recent report by the AP detailed the lead up to
26:51
Jeffrey Epstein's death and what happened in the aftermath. The
26:56
only problem is, well, they forgot a few key points,
26:59
and one of those key points is the fact that
27:02
Jeffrey Epstein set himself, that he was attacked physically by
27:06
Nicholas Tartaglioni, but there was no mention of that in
27:10
the AP report, and no mention of Tartaglioni at all.
27:15
You would think that this guy who shared a cell
27:17
with Epstein the first time around when Epstein allegedly tried
27:22
to kill himself would be a topic of conversation, especially
27:25
considering we've never had any real answers about Tartaglioni or
27:30
what he was doing in that jail cell. Can anyone
27:33
explain why a man charged with four homicides, is in
27:36
a jail cell with one of the most protected or
27:39
should be protected people in the whole entire prison system,
27:43
and then the audacity to act like nothing happened in
27:47
that jail cell, to act like Jeffrey Epstein tried to
27:50
kill himself that first time around in that jail cell,
27:53
when we have no video corroboration, We have nobody in
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the jail cell with them but him and Tartaglio and
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Epstein tells one story and Tartaglioni told a different story.
28:04
But we're gonna believe what Nicholas Tartaglioni said. Sorry, I
28:08
don't buy it. And for me, Tartaglioni was put in
28:11
that jail cell to send a message, and that message
28:14
to Jeffrey Epstein was look, either we're gonna do it,
28:17
or you're going to do it. You decide, And Tartaglioni
28:20
was the vehicle for that message to get there. What
28:23
other excuse is there for him being in that jail cell,
28:26
for the cameras being broken, and then for the authorities
28:30
in the jail to largely just ignore Epstein saying that
28:33
he was assaulted by Tartaglioni. The jail said that, you know,
28:37
they performed their investigation and they found no evidence that
28:41
Tartaglioni assaulted Epstein, and their evidence for that, well, just
28:45
trust us. That's basically what they've told us throughout this
28:48
whole entire thing, And if you want to trust them,
28:51
that is most certainly your business. Me personally, I don't
28:55
trust a word that these people are telling me, especially
28:58
when it comes to what happened to Epstein in that
29:01
jail cell. Today, we're going to go back to twenty
29:04
nineteen and we're going to take a look at an
29:06
article from Fox News headline Jeffrey Epstein feared cellmate, a
29:12
muscle bound X cop charged in murder who was moved
29:15
before the financier's death. This article was authored by Nicole Dara,
29:23
A hulking X cop facing the death penalty on federal
29:26
murder and drug charges, was reportedly Jeffrey Epstein's cellmate at
29:30
Manhattan's Metropolitan Correctional Center, and an official says Epstein might
29:35
have feared the former police officer who was questioned after
29:39
the disgraced financier pedophiles apparent suicide attempt last month and
29:44
who was transferred out of Epstein's cell shortly before the
29:47
sixty six year old died on Saturday. So again I
29:52
ask you, what the hell was this guy doing in
29:54
the jail cell with Jeffrey Epstein in the first place?
29:57
Has anyone ever answered that question? Don't you think that's
30:00
kind of important? Don't you think that the AP, when
30:03
they're digging into their story, would want to know a
30:06
little bit more about what went down in that cell
30:09
that first time around? Because I have a hard time
30:11
believing that Epstein tried to kill himself in that cell
30:15
with Tartaglioni present, especially considering if we're gonna believe Tartaglioni's
30:21
story of him being this white knight. If that's the case,
30:25
why did he even let it get to the point
30:26
where Epstein had anything around his neck? Have you seen
30:30
how big this dude is? He could have picked Epstein
30:32
up and broke him in half. So you wait until
30:35
Epstein is basically choking himself, and then you intervene. How
30:40
does that make sense to anybody? It doesn't, And that's
30:43
the story that they've pitched this whole entire time. So
30:47
I don't know how people have bought it. I don't
30:48
know how people continue to buy it, and I don't
30:50
know how people are so willing to believe the official
30:54
narrative here that Epstein committed suicide. Again, look, I am
30:58
very agnostic about it. I am willing to follow the
31:01
evidence wherever it goes. But before we get to the end,
31:05
we have to start at the beginning. And still, the
31:09
very beginning of all of this, when Epstein allegedly tried
31:12
to commit suicide, started with Nicholas Tartaglioni in that jail cell.
31:18
So anyone who's not starting at that point is missing
31:21
a gigantic piece of the story. And now the real
31:24
question becomes, why was Tartaglioni in that jail cell and
31:28
who placed him there? Nobody has ever told us that either,
31:32
So that's pretty important. Let's find to put him in
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that jail cell and put them under oath and ask
31:37
them why. Nicholas Tartaglioni, who had been a Briarcliff matter
31:42
cop in Westchester County, New York, was charged in twenty
31:46
sixteen with the deaths of four men stemming from an
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alleged cocaine drug conspiracy. Epstein was housed at the MCC
31:53
federal lockup with the fifty one year old former cop
31:57
after his July ars for sex trafficking. Taglionis attorney told
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Fox News on Monday, Tartaglioni was transferred out of Epstein's
32:07
cell in the facility, a special housing unit, a heavily
32:10
secured part of the MCC that separates high profile inmates
32:15
from the general population. After epstein was placed on suicide watch.
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Tartaglioni's attorney, Bruce Barkett, said it was not clear why
32:23
he was transferred. Oh, I'll tell you why. They wanted
32:26
him out of Dodge. And you see that Nicholas Tartaglioni. Well,
32:30
he didn't get the death penalty, right. I wonder why
32:34
was there some sort of deal worked out. He doesn't
32:37
talk about what happened in that jail cell, and we
32:40
won't pursue the death penalty. Look, I don't know what
32:43
kind of deal they worked out, but a guy who
32:47
kills people in cold blood the way Tartaglioni did, you
32:50
would think that a guy like that should get the
32:53
death penalty, right, or at the very least not be
32:56
in a jail cell with Jeffrey Epstein. But I guess
32:58
I'm the asshole for asking these questions. Huh. The most
33:02
recent inmate of sign to Epstein's cell was transferred on Friday,
33:06
just hours before his death, a source said, And just
33:09
a coincidence as well, Right, the next roommate gets transferred out,
33:13
and then a few hours later Epstein kills himself. Nothing
33:17
to see here, folks, just systemic errors. There's nothing else
33:20
going on here. Nobody just you know, fell asleep at
33:23
the switch on purpose or anything like that. A little
33:26
more than two weeks before his death, Epstein was placed
33:29
on suicide watch and required to have daily psychiatric evaluations
33:34
after being discovered in his cell semi unconscious with bruising
33:38
on his neck. Epstein was recently taken off suicide watch,
33:42
but it was not clear when a sour's familiar with
33:45
the matter told Fox News, Well, that's because breaking news.
33:49
He wasn't suicidal. Okay, how much more clear do we
33:52
have to be? He didn't tell one single person that
33:55
he was going to kill himself, So I don't even
33:58
understand where this whole, oh suicidal thing comes from, unless,
34:02
of course, it's part of the crafted narrative and the
34:05
cynic in me, says, well, it certainly is, because there's
34:09
no other excuse for them not just being completely honest
34:13
with what happened here. Can we get a full accounting
34:15
please about Nicholas Tartaglioni. Is there ever going to be
34:19
some sort of congressional hearing that calls all of these
34:23
people to the carpet. Of course there's not going to be,
34:26
and that's because they have to protect all their buddies. Right.
34:30
Though a suicide attempt was suspected of causing the injuries,
34:33
sources at the time told WNBC that authorities hadn't ruled
34:37
out an assault on Epstein, and an inmate identified as
34:41
Tartaglioni was questioned about the incident. Tartaglioni reportedly told officials
34:46
he didn't see anything related to the apparent suicide attempt
34:50
and maintained he didn't touch Epstein. Barkett said the two
34:53
men were in the same unit and doing well, adding
34:56
rumors Tartaglioni may have attacked Epstein are absolutely not true.
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So they're in a jail cell together, but he didn't
35:03
see anything at all, and he didn't touch Epstein. Who
35:06
believes this? Do you believe it? I don't. I guess
35:09
the jail officials did, though, because you know, they just
35:12
let him off. We're gonna have a talk with Tartaglioni,
35:14
and if he tells us he didn't do this, fine,
35:16
we're gonna let him off because you know, a guy
35:18
who's in jail for a quadruple homicide is obviously the
35:22
bastion of truth and somebody that can be trusted to
35:25
tell you the truth said nobody ever. Any suggestion that
35:29
mister Tartaglioni assaulted anyone is a complete fabrication, Barket said
35:34
in a statement. According to the Journal News, this story
35:37
is being leaked to retaliate against mister Tartaglioni for complaining
35:42
to the court about the deplorable conditions at the mcc Oh. Yeah,
35:47
that's exactly what it is, retaliation because Tartaglioni complained. Mister
35:52
Tartaglioni is an absolute choir boy and certainly not capable
35:56
of ever causing harm to anybody, right, just ask Martin
35:59
Luna's fan about Nicholas Tartaglioni. Barkett suggested the allegations about
36:05
his client may have been leaked by someone trying to
36:08
embarrass Epstein and cast some shade on Nick. Nobody leaked anything, Okay,
36:13
your client, Nicholas Tartaglioni assaulted Jeffrey Epstein. That's my position,
36:18
And after all these years and all this evidence, that
36:21
position is only growing stronger. In fact, a law enforcement
36:25
source told the New York Daily News last month that
36:28
Tartaglioni claimed that he helped Epstein after he found him
36:31
unconscious in his cell during his reported suicide attempt. After
36:36
he found him unconscious, where were they in the Serengetti
36:40
the cells like six x ten. He didn't have to
36:42
go on an expedition to the Himalayas to find Epstein. Okay,
36:46
So don't give me that he had no idea what
36:48
was going on. He was sitting there right in the cell.
36:50
If Epstein was going to kill himself in that jail cell,
36:53
Tartaglioni watched it from the very beginning, and if he
36:56
wanted to stop him, he would have stopped them at
36:59
the very beginning. But he didn't do that, right and
37:01
why not, Well, because he's the one who assaulted Epstein.
37:05
Now run home and tell that The source seemingly confirmed
37:09
Barket's assertions about the deplorable conditions at the facility, which
37:13
border on inhumane, the attorney described the Fox News on Monday.
37:18
At the end of the day, the facility is run
37:20
with a bad combination of laziness and cruelty, and this
37:24
is one of the results, Barkett said, noting he hopes
37:27
the investigation into Epstein's apparent suicide includes the manner in
37:32
which the facility is run and the conditions under which
37:35
inmates are forced to live. There's no doubt that it
37:38
was run completely terribly and that the facility should have
37:42
been shut down, but that doesn't explain what happened in
37:46
that jail cell and leading up to Jeffrey Epstein's death.
37:49
Way too many coincidences that have not been explained. If
37:53
you can explain those coincidences with facts, I am all yours.
37:57
You've got a guy who is a millionaire who is
37:59
now living among rats and mold and wants to go home.
38:02
The sword said, this is a disgusting place, and people
38:06
there they treat you disgusting. Who wouldn't be suicidal in
38:09
that kind of place. You have a silver spoon in
38:12
your mouth, and then you're putting a cesspool. And that's
38:14
what they've tried to say from the beginning, that because
38:17
Epstein was some rich guy, there's no way that he
38:19
could live in the conditions that he was living in,
38:22
and those conditions forced him to commit suicide. I do
38:26
not believe that. I think that Epstein thought he was
38:29
going to get out, and I think that he was
38:31
working towards getting released. So why would a guy with
38:35
all that money, all that power, all that influence kill himself,
38:39
especially when it comes on the back end of him
38:42
obviously being assaulted in this jail cell. Barkett didn't dispute
38:47
what Tartaglioni allegedly claimed. He did tell the Daily News
38:51
his client and Epstein became more than cordial, and even
38:54
went so far to say that the two became friends.
38:57
Highly doubt that too, right, Oh yeah, look, me and Epstein,
39:03
we were pals, says Tartaglioni. As Epstein's dead, nobody there
39:07
to refute that, so why not run with that narrative
39:11
in details? The attorney told Fox News on Monday that
39:15
there was no reason for Epstein to fear Tartaglioni, and
39:19
his sense is he did not fear Nick well, Epstein
39:22
said differently, So we should listen to what Barkett says,
39:25
but not what Epstein told the officials and other lawyers. Okay,
39:29
I guess, but regardless, Epstein indeed might have been trying
39:33
to get away from Tartaglioni. EO. Jung, the national President
39:37
of the Council of Prison Locals C thirty three, told
39:40
The Washington Post Tartaglioni is awaiting trial after investigators said
39:46
he was involved in the kidnapping and killing of four
39:49
men in twenty sixteen. In February twenty eighteen, while being
39:54
held at MCC, Tartaglioni himself was assaulted, The Journal News reported.
40:00
In the twenty eighteen attack, Barkett said Tartaglioni required reconstructive
40:04
surgery after an ice socket bone was fractured. The attorney
40:09
said at the time, in the special housing unit at MCC,
40:12
where Epstein later was also housed, Tartaglioni was quite literally
40:17
in a box, staring at walls. Not surprisingly, his mental
40:21
health has declined. Well, he was found guilty of these crimes.
40:24
So hope you enjoy the box, Tartaglioni. You're going to
40:27
be there for the rest of your miserable life. Federal
40:30
prosecutors reportedly planned to seek the death penalty against TARTAGLIONI
40:34
oh convenient right that Merrick Garland steps in and stops
40:38
the death penalty from taking place here. I know, I know,
40:41
just another coincidence. Epstein was being held on child sex
40:46
trafficking and conspiracy charges. After his July arrest. Prosecutors said
40:52
he sexually abused dozens of young girls in his New
40:55
York and Florida residences between two thousand and two and
40:58
two thousand and five. Epstein pleaded not guilty and faced
41:02
up the forty five years in prison if convicted. Famous,
41:06
high profile and notorious prisoners, as well as those accused
41:09
of sex crimes against children, are often given extra protection
41:14
against attacks from other prisoners, but it was not immediately
41:17
clear what specific precautions, if any, were taken in Epstein's case.
41:22
None were taken. Okay, they put them in GP. For
41:25
God's sakes, Why would you put somebody like this in GP. Now,
41:29
obviously they moved them off of GP. But it shows
41:32
you right from the very beginning what was going on here.
41:35
And while there were systemic failures, it's rather obvious that
41:39
to me anyway, Tartaglioni assaulted Jeffrey Epstein in that jail cell.
41:43
Epstein was afraid of Tartaglioni and the MCC and the DOJ.
41:49
They ignored what Epstein had to say, and then, after
41:51
an investigation that obviously didn't include any eyewitnesses or cameras,
41:56
the DOJ and the officials at the MCC walked away
42:00
from it all saying, you know what, Yeah, Epstein tried
42:03
to kill himself, nothing to do with our Taglione, a
42:06
four time murderer who's in his cell. And then they
42:09
expected you to believe it. The only problem is nobody's
42:13
buying it. All right, folks, that's gonna do it for
42:16
this one. All of the information that goes with the
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