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Prosecutors Describe Nicholas Tartaglione's Crimes In Gruesome Detail
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Federal prosecutors alleged that Nicholas Tartaglione orchestrated the April 2016 kidnapping and murder of Martin Luna over what they described as stolen drug money. According to the government’s account, Tartaglione lured Luna to the Likquid Lounge...
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We're going to talk more about Nicholas Tartaglioni today, and we're going to talk about how prosecutors say he killed the people that he's accused of killing. And then you could ask yourself once again what this guy was doing in a cell with Jeffrey Epstein in the first place. Now, this wasn't his last cellmate. Jeffrey Epstein's last cellmate. I saw somebody on Twitter talking about Stone Reyes as well. But Tartaglioni is a different story. Right? You could understand why Stone Reyes would be in a cell with Jeffrey Epstein. At least I can. A drug addict, not a violent guy. I get it. Right? Those are the kind of people that you put in a cell with someone like Jeffrey Epstein. Someone like Mercy. You don't put a guy like Tartaglioni in a jail cell with Jeffrey Epstein, there is no damn good reason for it. Now, we can run around the track all day trying to figure out what the hell went on in that jail cell the first time when Jeffrey Epstein allegedly tried to kill himself. But the fact remains that there was no cameras, still no police reports, Nothing. Nothing from that night. And Epstein himself said he was assaulted by Tartaglione, according to sources. So you would think that this would be more of a point of interest for the powers that be, for people who are following this case. Now, I'm not going to sit here and say Tartaglione killed Jeffrey Epstein. That obviously is not the case. My question is, what happened in that cell the first time around when they were sharing a cell together? And why is there no information about the incident? Nothing. Of course they'll tell you that. It's, you know, an ongoing investigation, and you don't have the right to see that because it's a national security event or whatever crazy shit they'll come up with. Before you know it, they'll be telling you that aliens were involved. This was an alien carried out project. Little green men from Mars showed up, and they were the ones who clipped Epstein. I mean, in this wild Ass world. Would it surprise you at this point if that was the narrative they pitched? And for those out there that love conspiracy theories, there's one for you. Little green men came down and used some kind of transport beam to transport themselves into Epstein's cell and clip him. Have that for a conspiracy theory, why don't you? But all kidding aside, a guy like Nicholas Tartaglioni shouldn't have even been in the same wing as. As Jeffrey Epstein. Unless of course, you're in GP when you're in general population, folks, lifers, people doing short time, everyone's mixed together right now. The only way that you can get out of that environment is if you PC up. You know, you're a child molester or you're a gang dropout, some like that. And you PC up and you go to the protected yard. But Epstein and Tartaglioni, they should not have been together when Epstein is a high priority, high value convict, somebody that should be in a solitary confinement environment at the very least until, you know, the trial. And you can get him situated somewhere and figure out what sort of celly he should have. But this is the kind of dude that if he was to go into general population, what would happen is he'd walk into whatever jail he was at, right? The shot caller for his race, being a white guy, it would be insert crazy ass, weird skinhead gang here, a white supremacist gang here. They check him. Yo, let's see your paperwork, homie. What's up? What are you in for? And if you're a chomo child molester, pedophile like Epstein, then you have three days to PC up or you're greenlit. And, you know, it varies. Might be a couple of different, you know, time frames or whatever, but usually three to seven days, that's the time frame you're given to PC up and get off the yard because you're not rolling with their car. If you're there for. For hurting children or, or shit like that, you are not rolling in any of their cars. You're gonna go to the protective yard and. And you're going to end up sitting at the chomo table on the protective yard. But Tartaglioni and Jeffrey Epstein should never, ever, ever be next to each other. Now, of course, you have Tartaglione. Being an ex cop, he could also end up in PC right on the protected yard. And that's probably where he's gonna end up when he goes to prison, when all of this is said and done. But when they're both Waiting transit when they're both awaiting, you know, to be sentenced. There's no reason for these two to be put together. No reason at all. And I would think that this would be a much bigger point of contention with people who are, you know, interested in reform in prison and in jail, people like me. Because let me tell you what, I am way interested in reform in jail. I am way interested in rehabilitation. I'm not interested in and locking people away like animals and forgetting about them. That is just not a society that I'm willing to be part of or want to take part in. We need to rehabilitate people who can be rehabilitated. You mean to tell me somebody who's in there for a petty drug offense has no chance to make a comeback? Somebody in there for some, you know, white collar crime has no chance to make a comeback? Of course they do. See, it's not about how fantastic you can handle yourself when things are going right. It's about when there's some adversity about how you come back. The way you pick yourself up off of the mat, always easy to, you know, back a front runner. Not so easy when you hit the canvas for the first time and you have to pick yourself back up and keep going. So I'm all for people being rehabilitated. And there needs to be the infrastructure within our prison systems in America to offer that to the people who really want to change their lives and want to change. But it is quite obvious that the way things are going currently in the Department of Corrections, the Department of Justice, that things are fubar. Things, things are messed up and things need to be fixed. But unless we hold people accountable that are in these positions of power within the Department of Corrections, within the Department of Justice, then it's just going to continually happen over and over again and the cycle will repeat itself. If there's no punishment for the people who are in charge when this shit goes south, what kind of motivation is that going to give to the next guy or girl that gets put into that position to do anything different? If all you're gonna do is get shuffled to a new prison, when shit goes south as, as the warden, then what incentive is there for you to do a good job and to make things better? There is none. So that all has to be fixed. And look, I don't have all of the answers. I don't know shit about prison really, like, as far as, you know how to administer a prison or I don't know anything about it, but obviously the people who are being paid To. To know about it and to facilitate and administer these prisons. Obviously they don'. I don't know what the fuck they're doing either. So there's that. At the very least. At the very least, the minimal effort should be made, but we don't even see that from these institutions, and it's pretty damn sad. And when you see a guy like Nicholas Tartaglioni being put in a cell with a guy like Jeffrey Epstein, and then all of the other things that occur, occur after that, sure makes you wonder, doesn't it? And it sure makes you think that the official narrative is full of holes. Alright, so today our article is from therecordonline.com and it's the Times Herald Record headline. Prosecutors detail how they believe Tartaglioni killed his victims. This article was authored by Heather Yackin and it was Originally published on September 24th of 2019. White Plains. That's in Westchester, New York. After luring Martin Luna to a Chester bar and restraining Luna and three other victims, Nicholas Tartaglioni beat Luna, put a plastic zip tie around his neck and. And choked him to death, prosecutors said in legal papers filed in White Plains Federal court.
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Sounds familiar, huh? How did Epstein go? He was choked, wasn't he? I know, just another coincidence. Obviously, Tartaglioni isn't the guy who clipped him. That's not what I'm getting at here. The point is, what was Tartaglione doing in that jail cell in the first place? A lot of questions. Was he there to send a message? Was he there to intimidate? What was he there for? The harrowing details were revealed in documents the U.S. attorney's office for the Southern District of New York filed in response to pretrial motions submitted to the court by Tartaglione's defense team. The statements represent the first time the government has revealed how they believe Tartaglione, of the town of Crawford, killed Luna. Now, this is the crazy part of this story that is not really talked about too much, is that Luna is or was an operator for the cartel. Now, I haven't really been able to find too much information about which cartel he was rolling with, but there are, you know, the usual suspects, obviously Sinaloa, you know, cjng, you know, Golf cartel. There's several different suspects, but from the little bit that I have been able to glean, it looks like he was connected to the Sinaloans in some regard. Now, you all know the deal down in Mexico when it comes to narco trafficking, and you know that they don't play games down there. And they're not, certainly not playing no games with some gringo cop from America. So obviously Tartaglioni was brazen enough to clip this dude. So what that leads me to believe is Tartaglione wasn't working on his own, some sort of organization backing him. They were making a play and looking to move in on Luna and his production or moving of the product. Now, again, I'm not too sure all of the details of, you know, Luna's operation or what was going on, but we're talking about multiple keys here, right? So we're not talking about small time operation. When we start getting into keys, multiple keys, especially kilo is 2.2 pounds of cocaine. You're talking about a lot of blow. We're talking about, you know, roughly $20,000 street value, $24,000 street value. It all depends. But we're talking about a lot of money here. And if Luna was working as an operator for, say, the Sinaloa cartel and Tartaglioni moved in on him like this, you would think that Tartaglioni is for sure gonna be greenlit once he hits the yard.
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Now, I am not too sure how that's going to work out for him, if he's going to go state or if it'll end up being a federal crime. Probably state, considering, but who knows what the government is going to get up to? But if he ends up in state prison in New York, he'll definitely PC up. If he ends up in federal prison, he'll. He'll definitely PC up. But the Mexican mafia and the cartel, they definitely work hand in hand. And anybody who thinks or tells you that the Hispanics aren't running the prison systems, they're lying to you because the Hispanic car is running the prison systems pretty much in the whole entire country. La Eme is a very, very, very powerful organization and they work hand in hand with people like the cartel. So, you know all of those gangs with the 13 after their names? Yeah, all of those gangs check in with La Eme. So we're talking about a lot of gang members, a lot of hitters, and a lot of people that if there's a green light put on you that are going to be looking to collect a scalp. So Tartaglione, knowing all of that, being a cop, obviously he understood all of that, still was brazen enough to clip this dude and three other people. So that leads me to believe that Tartaglioni was working with some sort of clandestine group that we are not aware of yet. The mafia, perhaps, Perhaps another cartel that was looking to move in and take over this business. Because, again, look, you're going to need a supplier, right? If you're. If you're selling weight, if you're moving weight, you're going to need a supplier. You're going to need somebody that can provide that weight for you to move. You're not nickel and diamond from the local drug dealer. So was Tartaglione moving in to become the supplier with the help of somebody else? See, there's a lot to this story that we still don't know. Prosecutors have sought the death penalty against Tartaglioni, 51, a former Briarcliff Manor police officer, in the abductions and deaths of Luna and three other Middletown men. Miguel Luna, Urbano Santiago, and Hector Gutierrez. Assistant U.S. attorneys Maureen Comey. Oh, we know that name, don't we? And Jason Swergold wrote in their filing that the government will prove the case at trial based on testimony from witnesses, physical evidence, surveillance videos, phone records, text messages, and other documentary evidence. So it looks like they got the goods on old boy, right? And now, again, ask yourself, after all we've just talked about here and us just being, you know, novices, we don't. We don't work for the prison department or anything like that. Does it sound like a good idea to put this guy in a cell with Jeffrey Epstein? On what planet is that a good idea? On April 2016, prosecutors say Tartaglioni lured Luna to Liquid Lounge in Chester because he believed that Luna had stolen money meant to buy cocaine. The defendant planned to hold Luna at the Liquid Lounge, where he would attempt to force Luna to disclose the location of the stolen money and would kill Luna if he refused to return the money. The defendant enlisted others to assist him with this plan, Prosecutors wrote in the paper. Again, this isn't something that was just concocted overnight by Tartaglioni. Right? This is probably a plan that was laid out. And to me, it looks like there is or was a dispute about product, about who was going to provide product and who was going to middleman that product once it arrived on site. So this is how you get a lot of the violence in the war on drugs, when you have people battling over turf, over supply, and who is going to move that supply once it drops into their lab. And a lot of times you end up with big time violence, folks. When there's a power struggle or when there's a move to remove the middleman and become that middleman yourself, there's always a struggle to do that. I shouldn't say always, because sometimes you can just, you know, make your move more powerful than the other guy or whatever, and you make your move. But for the most part, there's always a struggle there. And it looks like that's what was going on here, in my opinion, anyway. Because Luna was unaware of the true nature of the meeting, he brought three companions with him on April 11, 2016. His nephew, Urbano Santiago, his nephew Miguel Luna, and his friend Hector Gutierrez. The defendant and his co conspirators did not expect the other three victims to accompany Luna to the Liquid Lounge. When the victims arrived at the Liquid Lounge, all four were physically restrained and and not permitted to leave the premises. Sounds exactly like the way the cartel operates in Mexico, huh? Sounds like Tartaglioni sure had a blueprint he was working out of. And again, I don't know who he was working with, but he has to get the product from somewhere. If he's slanging cocaine, you know that if he's moving weight, inevitably he's gonna come into contact with an associate of the cartel. If you're moving weight, that's just the way it goes. Cocaine especially, there's just no way around it. If you're doing cocaine or you're selling cocaine, that shit came through Mexico, folks. One cartel or the other safeguarded that all the way through the border, got it to America, into the hands of your dope dealer, and then right up your old nose. But the fact remains, some cartel in Mexico was handling that blow. At some point. Prosecutors say Tartaglioni repeatedly struck Martin Luna, then eventually put a plastic zip tie around Luna's neck and pulled it tight, choking Luna and ultimately killing him again. This is the guy you want to put in a cell with Jeffrey Epstein? This is the guy that you're gonna put in there with such a high profile inmate? Who made that decision? And why isn't that man or woman fired from their job? You mean to tell me that person isn't held Responsible for that boneheaded decision? How come you and I have to be responsible at our jobs, for our behavior? How come I have to be responsible for everything I say on this podcast, but these dudes don't have to be responsible for something like that. It's a joke, an absolute travesty, and there's no accountability whatsoever anytime something like this goes wrong. Tartaglione took Luna's body to his property on Old Mountain Road near Otisville, and his co conspirators brought the other three men, still alive and bound to the property, prosecutors wrote. Now imagine the other three dudes, how they feel. They just see their boy get choked to death with a zip tie. They're all restrained. They're all held at gunpoint. Now they're being transferred to some farm somewhere. Especially dudes that are from Mexico. They understand what's happening right now. This is a typical cartel tactic. Cartel swoop up, snatch a bunch of people that are operators for another organization, Torture one, have the others watch, Torture the next, have the others watch. Oh, did I mention, though, that the cartels film all of this so that they can brag about it and put it on the Internet to intimidate their. Their ops, because that's what the cartel does. Sure seems like Tartaglione was taking a page out of their book here, Right? Except obviously, I don't. Don't think, anyway, that there was any videotaping going on. Upon arriving at Otisville property, the three remaining victims were each shot in the back of the head and killed, the prosecutors wrote. The defendant personally shot one of the three victims himself. So again, what sort of cold, calculated scumbag do you have to be to engage in this sort of behavior? First of all, kill somebody with a zip tie, you know how brutal that must be. It's like a garrote. Think about that for a minute. The force that must be needed with one of those zip ties to choke the life out of somebody. That's a fucking brutal way to go. This is the guy you're gonna put into Jeffrey Epstein's cell. Then all of a sudden, you put this guy in the cell with Epstein. Now Epstein's assaulted. He says, but, oh, we might have tried to commit suicide. And everybody's just gonna default and think, ah, Epstein tried to kill himself. Don't make no sense to me. That. That line of thought don't make no sense to me whatsoever, folks. This is a violent. A violent man who had no business ever being in a cell with Jeffrey Epstein. The four men were buried in A mass grave on the property. Their families reported them missing, and police in Chester soon found the vehicle. They drove to Chester parked near a diner. Federal prosecutors, the FBI, and state police joined the investigation. They arrested Tartaglione on December 19, 2016, and recovered the bodies the next day. So that dude had himself a nice little Christmas, huh? And then languishing in jail from 2016 all the way through 2019. Why was he even still at MCC? Why isn't this dude's trial been over and done with and convicted and gone? Oh, that's right. They had to pause the trial over the Epstein stuff, didn't they? You know, folks, there's a whole lot here to unpack. The whole Tartaglioni situation has smelled completely off and weird to me from the jump. Now, again, I'm not saying Tartaglioni killed Epstein. That's ridiculous. My statement is, why was he put in there in the first place? That's the question, and there's no logical answer for it. The papers filed by prosecutors also include a transcript of conversations between Tartaglione and state police investigators who picked him up near his home on Long Lane in the town of Crawford. They had stopped his wife in the jeep she was driving, using a ruse to get Tartaglione to them. They told her they were investigating a road rage case and asked her to call her husband to come meet them on the roadway. Imagine that, huh? Cops going after cops. That's nice change. According to the documents, Tartaglione initially told the investigators, I'm a cop. He agreed to the troopers. He agreed to go to the trooper barracks to discuss the road rage. Investigators activated a recorder in their vehicle before Tartaglione entered. So I guess he's such a scumbag that he was road raging so often that they could just use that as an excuse to have him come down. I mean, who road rages these days? What the hell is wrong with you? Dude, calm down. Take it easy. Immediately after, investigator Hammer entered the car, and without prompting, the defendant spontaneously stated, this isn't about road rage. This is about the missing Mexicans, isn't it? Prosecutors wrote in their papers. They told him they needed his help finding the missing men, and they spoke to him on the drive about his interactions with the men, Prosecutors wrote. And you would think Tartaglione would know better being a cop himself than to run his fat yap, but here we are. A lot of these people with these narcissism problems, they just can't help themselves. According to the transcript, Tartaglioni told police he knew Martin Luna and one of the other men because they worked for him on the old mountain road property, helping to put up horses, horse fences and other jobs for a dog and horse animal rescue. Tartaglione and his wife ran. He said he had sold Luna an old Mercedes suv, but Luna hadn't paid and returned the suv. And he suspected Luna was involved in drugs and the cartel. Oh, he suspected, huh? You knew exactly what Luna was involved in, Tar Taglioni. Or as they used to call you in the neighborhood, tat tat.
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You knew what you were up to. You knew that this dude was in the cartel and you knew that you were making a move. Tartaglioni said he hadn't seen the men since March, but knew from the news that four men were missing. He said he'd heard the two of them were in Mexico and he suggested that the men might have taken off for Colombia. That doesn't make any sense. Colombia? Why would Mexican nationals take off to Colombia? They would go back to Mexico to their people, back to their cartel, back to their enclave. They wouldn't take off to Mexico. At the barracks, police read Tartaglione his rights and questioned him for about 47 minutes, at which point he invoked the right to a lawyer, prosecutors wrote. The investigators processed him for arrest and took him to White Plains Federal court for presentment on the murder charges. So that's the guy folks that they put in a cell with Jeffrey Epstein and they knew who he was. 2016 this all occurred. So again, I'm not sitting here saying Tartaglioni killed Epstein. That's ridiculous. We know that didn't occur. But did he assault him that first time? Was he there to pass on a message? What in the hell was somebody facing a four time murder rap doing in a cell with dorky ass bitch ass Jeffrey Epstein? That is the question. If you'd like to contact me, you can do that@bobby capuchirotonmail.com that's B O B B Y C A P U c c I protonmail.com youm can also find me on Twitter at Bobby Capuci. You can also find the show on Facebook at the Jeffrey Epstein Show. All of the links that go with this episode can be found in the description box.
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Alright, the Farm City Pro Rodeo has raised the bar again, $60,000 in added money per event, solidifying Hermiston's place as a top 15 paying rodeo in the PRCA. New this year, Saturday night's performance will be a true championship round, guaranteeing you get to see the best of the best in one place on one night. Tickets are on sale now and they will go fast. Visit farm cityprodeo.com for tickets and more information. Experience the action Feel the history of the Farm city Pro Rodeo August 12th through the 15th.