Ex-Police Officer Who Once Shared Cell With Jeffrey Epstein Gets Life in Prison for 4 Murders

Ex-Police Officer Who Once Shared Cell With Jeffrey Epstein Gets Life in Prison for 4 Murders
FBI investigators remove a backhoe seized from the Crawford, New York property of former Briarcliff Manor Police officer Nicholas Tartaglione on Dec. 21, 2016. James Nani/Times Herald-Record via AP
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NEW YORK—A retired police officer convicted of murdering four people, including a man he tortured and strangled over stolen drug money, was sentenced Monday to four consecutive life terms in prison.

Nicholas Tartaglione, 56, who had been an officer in the Hudson River Valley village of Briarcliff Manor, was convicted last year. His case drew attention both because of the brutality of the crime and because Mr. Tartaglione was briefly a cellmate of Jeffery Epstein, the politically connected playboy who died while awaiting trial on federal sex trafficking charges.