Epstein's cellmate makes bombshell claim Trump admin wanted financier dead
Jeffrey Epstein's prison cellmate revealed a shocking claim and said he believed that the Trump administration wanted the late financier and convicted child sex offender dead.
In a pardon petition in 2025 obtained by The Daily Beast, Nicholas Tartaglione, a former law enforcement officer who was facing charges for four murders over a drug deal gone bad, said he believed Epstein was left unprotected "on purpose" behind bars and claimed Epstein was "deliberately exposed to violence in the hope that he would not survive long enough to stand trial."
It's unclear why Epstein was moved into the same cell as Tartaglione, something that has never been explained, The Beast reported. Tartaglione claimed this was done with a goal in mind. ...