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

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. The man Mr. Tartaglione tortured was Martin Luna, who he believed had stolen $250,000 from him that was meant to buy cocaine, prosecutors said. The other three victims were friends or family who happened to be out at a club with Luna when Mr. Tartaglione and two associates kidnapped them in 2016....