A former New York police officer who shared a jail cell with Jeffrey Epstein at the time of the notorious sex trafficker’s death has been convicted of murdering four men and burying them in his yard.
Nicholas Tartaglione, a 55-year-old retired police officer-turned-drug dealer, faces life imprisonment after a jury on Thursday found him guilty of the strangling death of one man and the execution-style killings of three others.
While awaiting his trial, Tartaglione attracted widespread media attention after he was identified as Epstein’s cellmate at the Metropolitan Correctional Center in lower Manhattan. A well-connected financier accused of operating a sex trafficking ring involving dozens of children, Epstein was found dead on the morning of Aug. 10, 2019, just a few days after prison officials removed him from suicide watch….