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Feds offered Jeffrey Epstein a deal for incriminating dirt on Trump, ex-cellmate says
By Jon Levine
Published Jan. 18, 2025, 8:35 a.m. ET
Jeffrey Epstein was offered a sweetheart plea deal by federal prosecutors in return for incriminating information that would lead to President Trump’s impeachment, according to the late pedophile’s cellmate.
Ex-Westchester cop and convicted killer Nicholas Tartaglione, Epstein’s bunkmate at the Metropolitan Correctional Center in Manhattan weeks before his death in August 2019, said the disgraced financier dished on the dirt-digging expedition after a confab with the feds.
“He said, ‘When you were a cop, what do you know about proffers and cooperating?’ I said, ‘Jeff, it’s pretty simple, the prosecutors, you know, they caught a fish — you. They’re not gonna let that fish off the hook unless you give them a bigger fish,'” recalled Tartaglione in a phone call with Jessica Reed Kraus, a California-based self-described journalist who recorded the conversation and later posted it to her Substack.
“He said, ‘Yeah, well, that’s what they said,'” the quadruple murderer recalled. “He said, ‘They told me they’d let me plead out something small, and I’ll do just a couple of years in a camp, if I can give them something on Trump to get him impeached.’
“He says, but the government told me I don’t have to prove what I say about Trump, as long as Trump’s people can’t disprove it,” Tartaglione said — adding that Epstein considered “making stuff up” to save his skin. Tartaglione never said what Epstein ultimately planned to do.
Tartaglione, 57, was convicted in 2023 of murdering four people, including a man he tortured and strangled over stolen drug money. The one-time Briarcliff Manor cop was sentenced last year to four consecutive life sentences.
Tartaglione was Epstein’s cellmate when the moneyman was discovered with bruises on his neck on July 23, 2019. Epstein told his lawyers that Tartaglione “roughed him up,” which the cellmate denied.
Epstein was removed from Tartaglione’s cell and put on suicide watch. He killed himself three weeks later on Aug. 10 — though questions over the possibility of foul play remain. While he was supposed to be placed with a new cellmate, Epstein was alone, according to a report from the Department of Justice Inspector General.
Epstein at the time was facing a raft of charges from federal prosecutors, including sex trafficking of minors and sexual exploitation and abuse.
Jeffery Epstein and Donald Trump posing together at the Mar-a-Lago estate in Palm Beach, Florida, 1997
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Trump and Epstein did know each other, but they weren’t friends, Tartaglione said.
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According to Tartaglione, Epstein said he knew Trump only socially and the two were not friendly. In fact, he said Trump once threw him out of a party at Mar-a-Lago for being flirtatious with young women.
“I said, ‘Well, do you know Trump?'” Tartaglione claimed in the phone call. “He says, ‘Well, you know, I know him. I met him, but we don’t like each other.’ I laughed. I said, ‘Why?’ He said, ‘Trump threw me out of a party at his place in Florida.’
“I said, ‘Why he throw you out? He said, ‘Oh he got mad, I was talking to some girl.’
“By now I got wind of what he was in there for,” Tartaglione told the interview. “And I said, ‘How old was the girl, Jeff?’ And he says, ‘Oh about 18, 19.’
“So, I was a cop. I said, ‘Jeff, that means probably 14, 15.’ And he says, ‘Well he threw me out. I haven’t talked to him since.'”
It is not clear when the party was.
Tartaglione said Epstein admitted, “I don’t know anything” about Trump.
Tartaglione added that Epstein was additionally considering turning because he wanted to save his “girlfriend” — a likely reference to Ghislaine Maxwell, who was sentenced to 20 years for sex trafficking in 2022.
Jeffrey Epstein, second from left, alongside his lawyers in Courtroom 11F, West Palm Beach County Courthouse, Florida, for his sentencing hearing
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Before his death, Epstein said that he had so much dirt on Trump and Hillary Clinton that he could have had the 2016 election cancelled, his brother Mark Epstein told The Post last year.
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