American Politics > Was Jeffrey Epstein offered a deal to incriminate Trump?

 

This entire story comes from a murderer, and, I believe, has not been verified.

If true, and if Epstein refused the deal, the deal-maker would have been terrified that Epstein might disclose the offer and had Epstein suicided.

Feds offered Jeffrey Epstein a deal for incriminating dirt on Trump, ex-cellmate says

By 

Jon Levine  NYPost

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.

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Nicholas Tartaglione shared a cell with Jeffrey Epstein shortly before the financiers suicide.

“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.

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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.

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Epstein committed suicide in his prison cell— an incident which many believe involved foul play.

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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.

Kraus, who posted her conversation with Tartaglione, additionally reported on her substack that the ex-cop was choked and stabbed by other inmates in October. A spokesman for the Bureau of Prisons declined to comment on the matter.

Kraus, 45, told The Post she was first introduced to the killer two years ago — and believes he was “wrongly convicted.”

“We were introduced by a friend in common almost two years ago. Nick knows I record him. He believes I can help him prove his conviction is unjust,” Kraus said.

Tartaglione’s attorneys declined to comment. Reps for Manhattan federal prosecutors declined to comment on Tartaglione’s allegations.

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Epstein said he considered making up a story for the feds in order to save Ghislaine Maxwell, according to Tartaglione.

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Legal experts told The Post that the purported fed offer to Epstein sounded plausible.

“Anything is possible when it comes to high-profile cases like this. They are career makers,” said Alan Dershowitz, a close confidante of Trump who represented him during his first impeachment trial.

“It could have originated at some point lower than the US attorney or one of the middle ranking officials at the Southern District of New York or the FBI. They are always looking to make cases.”

Added defense lawyer Jason Goldman: “Federal prosecutors in particular are known to conduct these types of proffer sessions. Defendants facing extreme sentences are pressured to name names and conform to the government’s version of the ‘truth,’ even where there may be resistance.”

“The threat to prosecute Maxwell is extremely plausible – the fact that she wasn’t simply arrested alongside Epstein but rather only later on, after his unwillingness to implicate Trump and after his apparent suicide, speaks volumes about the government’s tactics.”

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Epstein's "Suicide" - Looking more suspicious every day

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The Epstein Files: US Bureau of Prisons bent facts

to support suicide narrative

The declassified papers on notorious pedophile case shed light on more suspicious details

Jeffrey Epstein © Rick Friedman / Rick Friedman Photography / Corbis via Getty Images

Documents obtained under Freedom of Information laws by RT investigative unit The Detail include startling records revealing how the US Bureau of Prisons (BOP) moved to shut down any and all public debate about the cause of Jeffrey Epstein’s death. Along the way, evidence was distorted, material facts ignored, and key anomalies unexplored and unpublicized.

After being found dead in his cell at the Metropolitan Correctional Center on August 10, 2019, the records show that the Bureau issued statements to journalists and Epstein’s family categorically stating he’d committed suicide.  The result was international news outlets universally and unquestioningly reporting that Epstein had taken his own life from the word go, despite Chief Medical Examiner Barbara Sampson having reached no conclusion at that time, and making clear in a statement the next day that the investigation was open and ongoing. 

It was not until August 16 that Sampson publicly declared Epstein’s death had been a suicide. The ruling was contested by leading forensic pathologist Dr. Michael Baden, who’d been hired by the billionaire’s brother to monitor the autopsy process. Speaking to the Miami Herald two months later, he charged that “the autopsy did not support suicide,’’ and that the pathologist who conducted it had recorded this.

“Then Dr. Sampson changed it a week later, manner of death to suicide. The brother has been trying to find out why that changed,” Baden fulminated. “What was the evidence?”

No clarity on these questions has been forthcoming in the years since, although one rationale for the apparent volte-face may have been a shock Washington Post report a day prior to Sampson’s announcement. Sources familiar with the autopsy told the paper that the process had revealed several bones in Epstein’s neck, including the hyoid, were broken, and such breakages “are more common in victims of homicide by strangulation” than hanging.

It's my understanding that these bones can only be broken in hanging if there is a drop of 6 feet or more. Impossible in Epstein's cell.

Another explanation may be the then-ongoing “psychological reconstruction” of Epstein’s death compiled by Robert Nagle, BOP national suicide prevention coordinator. Files released to The Detail by the Bureau record how Nagle – whose name is redacted in the files – arrived at the Metropolitan Correctional Center on the morning of August 13 to commence his investigation. 

In his resultant report, Nagle noted that a video of an unspecified nature related to the “significant incident” was confiscated by the FBI prior to the review being initiated. He also said he’d been unable to conduct formal interviews with prison staff “to avoid interference with pending investigations” by the Justice Department, and that much of the information “typically gathered” in psychological reconstructions was not available.

These constraints “severely limited the ability to establish accurate timelines, confirm subjective reports, establish converging and diverging lines of facts, or discover new areas of inquiry,” Nagle wrote. 

For example, he was quite amazingly unable to piece together a “detailed description” of what the officers found when they discovered Epstein, as they “did not write memorandums and could not be interviewed.” Furthermore, as no pre-sentence report on Epstein had been completed prior to his death, numerous sections of the reconstruction – such as a review of the inmate’s “social history” – were avowedly incomplete in their appraisal.

Still, despite this glaring lack of hard evidence, the document ruled conclusively that Epstein had indeed committed suicide. His decision was attributed to being unable to sleep due to an “inability to tolerate the noise of prison,” plus the recent unsealing of thousands of records related to his 2008 conviction on child sex offenses, and the prospect of spending the rest of his life in prison. 

Sound enough reasoning, one might think – though in building his case, Nagle drew repeated attention to Epstein declaring himself on several occasions to be a “coward” in the weeks prior to his alleged suicide as indicative of suicidal intent. It’s certainly true the prisoner was recorded making such statements – but explicitly in the context of denying any intention, or even ability, to kill himself. 

“He said he is not the type who likes pain or would ever attempt to harm himself,” one psychological assessment noted. “[He] even does not like when he has to give blood.”

This can only be considered a staggeringly dishonest inversion of Epstein’s comments, although Nagle’s manipulations went unremarked upon in an internal review of the reconstruction by Metropolitan Correctional Center Warden Marti Licon-Vitale. Nonetheless, in a section marked “documentation accuracy” she took aim at the failure of officials to log an incident report in a timely fashion, and seemingly submitting conflicting reports on the same incident. 

“Professional responsibility requires taking into account multiple descriptions of an incident as noted in your response. However, when discrepancies exist these should be compiled and noted in documentation to decrease the likelihood of conflicting conclusions,” she wrote. “Preconceived notions challenge the ability to remain open about alternative explanations … Please develop and provide local training for all staff that at a minimum reviews the timeframe for writing incident reports and offers guidance when there is not clear evidence of an infraction.”

While the specific episode criticized by Licon-Vitale is entirely redacted, one can infer that this section refers to the bizarre facts documented by The Detail in the first instalment of this investigative series. In brief, the initial incident report on Epstein’s alleged suicide on July 23, 2019 referred to “hanging/asphyxiation”, but another filed a week later was inexplicably amended to include “self-mutilation” by laceration, leading to him being disciplined for a penal code breach.  

These grievances aside, Nagle’s reconstruction was received with much delight by BOP higher ups. In an internal email dated August 23, the agency’s director Hugh Hurwitz effusively praised his “outstanding” work, remarking it was “unbelievable all you report without the benefit of interviews or video.” This email is ironic in the extreme, for it truly is “unbelievable” that a conclusive ruling of suicide could be reached without access to basic and vital evidence.

Four days earlier, Hurwitz was dismissed from his post by Attorney General William Barr without warning. Could this be attributable to attempting to shape the narrative on Epstein’s death, before the Federal Bureau of Investigation or Justice Department Inspector General had completed their respective probes of the case?

Whatever the truth of the matter, there is another supremely curious feature of the “psychological reconstruction” never hitherto publicized by any official or media outlet. A review of financial transactions associated with Epstein’s prison stay revealed that one of his attorneys “was depositing funds” into the commissary account of Efrain ‘Stone’ Reyes, Epstein’s final cellmate, “for unknown reasons.”

This may account for why Reyes became a person of interest in the FBI’s investigation and was duly questioned. He reportedly feared that cooperating with the Bureau might “affect him negatively,” but in return for his help, he was moved to a minimum security correctional center in Queens, New York, which housed high-value cooperating witnesses like rapper Tekashi69.

While there, he was reportedly interviewed personally by Attorney General William Barr as part of the Justice Department’s Office of the Inspector General’s probe, who thanked him for his input. Strangely, though, the department has refused to confirm or deny the claim, while Kerri Kupec, its former spokesperson, charges that it’s “100% false.”

Reyes died in September 2020, five months after being released from the prison, due to a facility-wide Covid-19 outbreak, purportedly through complications arising from the virus. Subsequently, his niece told mainstream news outlets her uncle had frequently voiced intense skepticism that the six-foot Epstein could’ve hanged himself from the bunk frames in the cell, as they simply weren’t tall enough.

In January 2021, federal prosecutors ruled that all records related to Reyes would remain sealed, despite requests for disclosure from journalists due to the potential impact on issues allegedly unrelated to Epstein. In dismissing the request, authorities listed information concerning the billionaire included in all files related to Reyes, which ran to two pages – all of it redacted.

Almost a year to the day later, it was reported that the Inspector General report on Epstein’s death was nearing completion, with a Justice Department investigator suggesting all the team had left to do was “dot their I's and cross their T's,” and stating they’d be “surprised if it's not released in the next 30 days or so.”

Whether it will shed any light on the countless serious matters raised by the declassified Bureau of Prisons documents is anyone’s guess, although in light of the revelation Reyes was in receipt of funds from Epstein’s lawyers, The Detail has lodged a request with relevant authorities for the seal to be reconsidered.

By Keelan Balderson is a UK-based journalist interested in security services, and misuse of state power. Follow his work at @altnewsuk.

By Kit Klarenberg, an investigative journalist exploring the role of intelligence services in shaping politics and perceptions. Follow him on Twitter @KitKlarenberg

Conspiracy Theory Alert: Was Jeffrey Epstein Murdered or Suicided

New twist emerges in Jeffrey Epstein's death as the Department of Justice reveals the pedophile was taken off suicide watch after being examined by a

'doctoral-level psychologist'

By ANDREW COURT FOR DAILYMAIL.COM

A new twist has emerged in the death of Jeffrey Epstein, with the Department of Justice revealing that disgraced pedophile was removed from suicide watch by a doctoral-level psychologist before he hanged himself on August 10. 

In a letter written to the House Judiciary Committee, which was obtained by Fox News on Friday, DOJ official Stephen E. Boyd wrote: ' The Department can confirm that Mr. Epstein was placed on suicide watch in July. 

'Mr. Epstein was later removed from suicide watch after being evaluated by a doctoral-level psychologist who determined that a suicide watch was no longer warranted.'

It's thought Epstein first tried to kill himself on July 23, when he was found unconscious in his cell at the Metropolitan Correctional Center.

He was rushed to hospital, before returning to the prison, where he was put on suicide watch. 

The DOJ letter did not reveal when he was examined by the doctoral-level psychologist. Further, they did not name the psychologist - who, having attained a PhD doctorate - had achieved the highest possible level of education in their field. 

Despite being taken off suicide watch, however, Epstein was not allowed to be left unattended in his cell, according to a bombshell report published in The Washington Post. However, the paper reported that, while at least eight Bureau of Prisons staffers knew of this fact, such orders were ignored in the 24 hours before Epstein's suicide. 

The staffers reportedly included managers and low-level correctional officers alike.  

Attorney General William Barr, who has ordered a probe into Epstein's death, has already removed the director of the federal Bureau of Prisons and appointed a new director and deputy director since Epstein died 13 days ago. 

 Meanwhile, Fox also reports that the jail's warden has been reassigned to a desk post at a regional office. 

At least eight prison officials were ordered to assure  Epstein wasn't left unattended in his cell,

yet they ignored the strict rules, leading to the pedophile's shocking suicide on August 10

Two guards who were supposed to be monitoring Epstein on the night of his suicide have also been placed on administrative leave.  

Despite Barr's changes, he has dampened conspiracy theories that Epstein may have been murdered in his prison cell, by claiming that he believes the pedophile did, in fact, take his own life. 

'I have seen nothing that undercuts the finding of the medical examiner that this was a suicide,' Barr said to reporters Wednesday. 

Seriously! It's been known for centuries that if you hang someone they die from suffocation unless they drop some 8 or 10 feet and suddenly stop. Then, the hanging person's neck breaks. Epstein had a broken neck. Was it possible for him to hang himself and then drop 8 or 10 feet? Was his cell 10 feet high with something to tie his sheets to at the top? Did he have more than one sheet? Why? 

Did the doctor remove him from suicide watch because Epstein told him it was attempted murder? 

How many powerful people had motive to shut him up? And they certainly had opportunity.

'Epstein's death, I think we will see, was a suicide and I do think there are some irregularities at the Metropolitan Correctional Center,' he said, as per ABC.

Fugitive Indian Billionaire Could Soon End Up in Mumbai Jail… If UK Finds Cell Good Enough

Corruption is Everywhere - Certainly in India

Wealthy people have a completely different justice system from the rest of us. Like Jeffrey Epstein, who trafficked dozens, if not hundreds of underage girls to wealthy and famous people, and was sentenced to spend a few months sleeping in a luxury jail cell while being able to leave and go to his luxury office all day. 

FILE PHOTO: Nirav Modi is driven away from Westminster Magistrates Court in London © AFP / Tolga Akmen

The UK court has extended the custody of notorious diamond dealer Nirav Modi as it seeks to ensure that he will be held in acceptable prison conditions before it rules on the extradition of the fugitive billionaire back to India.

“There is no reason why it [India’s jail plans for Nirav] should not be answered within 14 days,” Judge Emma Arbuthnot said, adding that Arthur Road Jail in Mumbai would be the “obvious candidate.”

Last year, Arbuthnot issued a similar request to Indian authorities before approving the extradition request of another fugitive – liquor tycoon Vijay Mallya, who had complained of inhumane prison conditions back home. In his case, India provided a video of the exact cell in which the former member of the Upper House of the Parliament was to be held. Mallya, who left India in March 2016 with debts of more than $1 billion, continues to fight the extradition order. The next hearing to decide his fate will be held on July 31.

Modi and Mallya might soon become prison mates if the judge Arbuthnot approves billionaire jeweler's extradition on July 29. For now, she has extended Modi's custody until June 27. Modi, who fled India last year and was only detained in London in March, is wanted over an alleged scam against Punjab National Bank (PNB), in which the diamond billionaire used fraudulent paperwork to obtain buyer’s credit for £2bn ($2.6bn).

If extradited, both men are in for a royal treatment at Mumbai's largest and oldest prison built in 1926. To house celebrity inmates and other high-profile prisoners, Arthur Road Jail has constructed a special cell block, consisting of individual 15x10 feet units. The cells have long French windows closer to the ceiling to ensure plenty of daylight and fresh air. They also come with other ‘luxuries’ previously unheard of.

“Exhaust and ceiling fans have been fitted to keep the rooms cool,” director general of prisons SN Pandey noted last month. “The other facilities include a commode, wash basin with 24x7 water supply as well as pure drinking water.”

'Now we are fully ready to accommodate the high-profile fugitive offenders while complying with global prison standards.'