A unclean former Westchester cop-turned murderous drug vendor who was as soon as Jeffrey Epstein’s cellmate is allegedly making a contemporary bid for freedom — with the assist of an anti-vax influencer tied to Well being Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
Disgraced ex-officer Nicholas Tartaglione, 57, who’s serving 4 consecutive life sentences for the 2016 kidnappings and killings of 4 males — is working with influencer Jessica Reed Kraus to attempt to overturn his conviction, the New Yorker reported.
Kraus, a former mommy blogger and main supporter of Trump, took a name from Tartaglione throughout her interview with the journal, reassuring the quadruple assassin that she may assist him obtain a pardon from the president.
“Trump is named the pardon President,” Kraus reportedly advised Tartaglione, who has insisted since his 2023 conviction that he was framed.
Kraus, who additionally types herself as JRK, mentioned that she was in touch with round 4 totally different inmates for tales.
The influencer, who has greater than 1.3 million followers on Instagram, got here below fireplace just lately as she appeared to mock victims of Epstein, the late Wall Road financier and former cellmate of Tartaglione simply weeks earlier than his loss of life in 2019 at New York’s Metropolitan Correctional Middle.
On her IG story, Kraus posted a black display with the phrases, “I used to be raped 25 occasions on the island,” earlier than responding, “Perhaps cease boarding the flights that you simply take to the island.”
Kraus, one of many pro-MAGA influencers who was handed the primary part of Epstein information in a binder earlier this yr after President Trump took workplace, doubled down on her criticism of his victims in a subsequent submit.
She known as on her followers to “study the info” earlier than attacking the #MeToo motion for overlooking “info and customary sense.”
“Forgive me, for refusing to embrace a story through which college-aged ladies who boarded a personal jet repeatedly (for years) to trip & settle for cost as escorts to a multi-millionaire, later accumulating hundreds of thousands after remedy convicted [sic] them they have been victims of rape-Epstein was useless and the one individual left to sue was Ghislaine Maxwell,” she wrote in one other submit, in reference to Epstein’s convicted co-conspirator.
Kraus spent the previous 5 years chronicling the rise of RFK Jr., together with his presidential run earlier than he took his function within the Trump administration as Well being Secretary.
On her telephone, she has a photograph folder titled “shirtless Kennedys exhibiting off toned torsos in varied boating scenes round Cape Cod,” the New Yorker reported.
She praised Kennedy’s work as Well being Secretary, firing 10,000 HHS workers, cancelling $500,000 in mRNA analysis which helped develop the Covid vaccine, and changing well being specialists on the Facilities for Illness Management and Prevention’s vaccine-advisory panel with anti-vax skeptics.
“I feel, general, in 5 months, he’s [Kennedy] accomplished an unimaginable job. I feel he’s gotten extra accomplished than any Well being Secretary prior to now,” she advised the New Yorker.
When Kennedy endorsed Trump, Kraus posted an image of the pair with the caption, “TRUMP KENNEDY = UNITY. You realize I fought arduous for this.”
Tartaglione — who murdered Martin Luna, Miguel Luna, Hector Gutierrez and Urbano Santiago in 2016 over a cocaine deal gone mistaken — was described as a “crucial witness” by his lawyer in the course of the investigation into Epstein’s suicide, which happened whereas he was awaiting trial for federal intercourse trafficking costs.
After kidnapping the 4 from a membership, Tartaglione strangled Luna with a zipper tie whereas the others have been compelled to observe over accusations that he had stolen $250,000 from him, prosecutors mentioned.
The three others have been then shot and all 4 our bodies have been discovered buried on Tartaglione’s property in Otisville, New York.
One among his alleged accomplices shot himself in his automobile in 2017 because the Feds have been closing in whereas one other, Joseph Biggs, was sentenced to 16 years in jail after pleading responsible to killing one of many victims.
Biggs described the killings at Tartaglione’s trial.
Tartaglione has all the time maintained his innocence, bizarrely claiming at his trial that he ran an animal rescue farm and wasn’t motivated by cash, the Journal Information reported.
Kraus didn’t reply instantly to requests for remark.
With Submit wires.
