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Jeffrey Epstein allegedly claimed that prosecutors in New York dangled a deal in front of him\u2014one that would set him free if he agreed to falsely implicate President Donald Trump in his crimes.<\/p>\n
The explosive claim comes from Epstein\u2019s former cellmate, ex-cop Nicholas Tartaglione, who detailed the alleged conversation in a pardon petition obtained by the\u00a0New York Post.<\/em><\/p>\n According to Tartaglione, Epstein said lead prosecutor Maurene Comey\u2014daughter of former FBI Director James Comey\u2014personally told him he could walk free if he tied Trump to his sex-trafficking case.<\/p>\n Tartaglione, now 57, shared a cell with Epstein in Manhattan\u2019s Metropolitan Correctional Center after the disgraced financier\u2019s 2019 arrest.<\/p>\n In his filing, Tartaglione wrote that prosecutors \u201ctold Epstein that if he said President Trump was involved with Epstein\u2019s crimes, he would walk free.\u201d<\/p>\n He further claimed that Epstein described a conversation with Maurene Comey, who allegedly told him, \u201cHe didn\u2019t have to prove anything, as long as President Trump\u2019s people could not disprove it.\u201d<\/p>\n Epstein reportedly said Comey bragged that \u201cthe FBI were her people, not his [President Trump\u2019s],\u201d suggesting a political bias inside the prosecution team.<\/p>\n The documents reviewed by the\u00a0Post<\/em> do not specify what exact crimes Trump was supposed to be implicated in.<\/p>\n At the time of his death, Epstein faced charges of sex trafficking and conspiracy but was rumored to be under investigation for other potential crimes, including financial misdealing and blackmail.<\/p>\n Maurene Comey served as lead prosecutor in several high-profile cases, including those involving Epstein, Ghislaine Maxwell, and Tartaglione himself.<\/p>\n Attempts to reach Comey for comment were unsuccessful, and the Department of Justice declined to respond.<\/p>\n The revelation adds another layer to the questions surrounding Epstein\u2019s 2019 death, which was officially ruled a suicide but continues to spark widespread skepticism.<\/p>\n Epstein was found dead in his cell on August 10, 2019\u2014just weeks after sharing the explosive story with Tartaglione.<\/p>\n Tartaglione claimed that Epstein had insisted, \u201cPresident Trump was not involved in Epstein\u2019s crimes.\u201d<\/p>\n The two men were housed together until Epstein\u2019s first suicide attempt in July 2019, after which he was placed on suicide watch and later returned to a new cell.<\/p>\n Tartaglione, a former K9 officer from Westchester, was later convicted in 2024 for killing four men during a botched 2016 cocaine deal.<\/p>\n In his own legal filings, he now alleges that evidence in his murder case was manipulated, phone data was tampered with, and video evidence was \u201caltered, spliced, mutilated and destroyed.\u201d<\/p>\n He also claims that one of his workers, Marcos Cruz, confessed to arranging the murders for a cartel but was pressured by investigators to change his story.<\/p>\n The former cop further accused the prosecution\u2019s star witness, bodybuilder Joseph Biggs, of fabricating testimony after meeting with prosecutors around 30 times.<\/p>\n Biggs later admitted to shooting one of the victims and was sentenced to 17 years in prison for his role in the murders.<\/p>\n Despite his own conviction, Tartaglione\u2019s new claim about Epstein and Comey raises serious concerns about potential political motives behind Epstein\u2019s prosecution.<\/p>\n Maurene Comey was fired from her position at the Justice Department in July, just days after the Department of Justice and FBI concluded that Epstein had died by suicide and did not maintain a client list.<\/p>\n House Speaker Mike Johnson revealed on Tuesday that Democrats are demanding billions in wasteful and ideological spending, including $3.9 million for LGBTQI+ democracy grants in the Western Balkans, as part of their conditions to reopen the government.<\/p>\n Speaking on the 14th day of what he called the Democrat government shutdown, Johnson said the American people are suffering because Democrats have chosen politics over responsibility.<\/p>\n \u201cWelcome to day 14 of the Democrat government shutdown,\u201d Johnson said during his press briefing. \u201cIt\u2019s two weeks of Democrats in Congress inflicting untold pain on the American people for nothing other than pure politics.\u201d<\/p>\n Johnson explained that House Republicans had already offered a clean continuing resolution to keep the government funded, but Democrats repeatedly rejected it.<\/p>\n Instead, he said, Democrats are tying unrelated left-wing priorities to essential government operations in an attempt to strong-arm Republicans into approving radical spending measures.<\/p>\n He accused Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer of catering to what he described as the party\u2019s \u201cMarxist base.\u201d<\/p>\n The Speaker laid out details from the Democrats\u2019 counterproposal, calling it a $1.5 trillion wish list of reckless spending that would send taxpayer money to liberal causes and foreign projects that have nothing to do with running the U.S. government.<\/p>\n Among the examples he cited were $24.6 million for climate resilience programs in Honduras.<\/p>\n Another $13.4 million would go to civic engagement programs in Zimbabwe.<\/p>\n An additional $2.9 million is earmarked for desert locust risk reduction in the Horn of Africa.<\/p>\n The Democrats\u2019 plan also calls for $2 million to fund \u201corganizing for feminist democratic principles\u201d in Africa, according to Johnson.<\/p>\n Johnson highlighted the $3.9 million in LGBTQI+ democracy grants for the Western Balkans as an example of Democrats\u2019 misplaced priorities.<\/p>\n \u201cThey want to spend 3.9 million of your hard-earned dollars for LGBTQI+ democracy grants in the Western Balkans,\u201d Johnson said. \u201cWe are not doing that.\u201d<\/p>\n He argued that Democrats are also trying to undo common-sense reforms enacted by Republicans that prevent illegal immigrants from accessing taxpayer-funded healthcare.<\/p>\n \u201cThis is a fact,\u201d he said. \u201cThey would add illegal aliens and non-citizens back to taxpayer-funded benefits. It would cost taxpayers nearly $200 billion.\u201d<\/p>\n Johnson further warned that Democrats want to roll back modest work requirements placed on able-bodied young men without dependents.<\/p>\n At the same time, Democrats are pushing to make COVID-era Obamacare subsidies permanent, with no income limits or meaningful reforms.<\/p>\n Johnson said this approach would not only punish working Americans but also reward dependency and mismanagement.<\/p>\n The Speaker accused Democrats of prioritizing ideological projects over the immediate needs of the American people.<\/p>\n He said their proposal exposes how out of touch the party has become, highlighting spending for causes abroad while Americans face uncertainty at home.<\/p>\n \u201cThis is not about keeping the lights on,\u201d Johnson said. \u201cThis is about Democrats trying to use the shutdown as leverage to fund their far-left agenda.\u201d<\/p>\n Johnson reminded reporters that Republicans have already passed legislation to reopen the government responsibly, without any of the unrelated political riders Democrats insist on including.<\/p>\n The Republican plan, he said, would maintain government operations, protect taxpayers, and prevent wasteful spending abroad.<\/p>\n Johnson also pointed out that the Democrats\u2019 proposal would restore funding to the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, sending a half-billion dollars to what he described as liberal media outlets that have long benefited from taxpayer subsidies.<\/p>\n He described it as another example of Democrats using government funding to reward their political allies rather than serving the public good.<\/p>\n \u201cThese are not the priorities of the American people,\u201d Johnson said firmly. \u201cThey are the priorities of a radical political class that has forgotten who they work for.\u201d<\/p>\n The Speaker ended his remarks by calling on Democrats to stop the political games and join Republicans in reopening the government immediately.<\/p>\n \u201cWe have a clean bill ready to go,\u201d he said. \u201cIt keeps the government open, pays our troops, secures the border, and protects hardworking taxpayers. Democrats need to stop holding America hostage.\u201d<\/p>\n Johnson\u2019s comments reflect growing frustration among House Republicans who say Democrats are using the shutdown to push through spending on social experiments, foreign projects, and activist groups under the guise of government funding.<\/p>\n He warned that such spending will only deepen America\u2019s fiscal crisis and fuel public anger toward Washington\u2019s political class.<\/p>\n \u201cThis is a moment for leadership,\u201d Johnson concluded. \u201cIt\u2019s time to put the American people first and end this shutdown\u2014not by giving in to woke demands, but by standing firm for fiscal sanity and common sense.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Jeffrey Epstein allegedly claimed that prosecutors in New York dangled a deal in front of him\u2014one that would set him free if he agreed to falsely implicate President Donald Trump in his…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1004,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1005","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-hot-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t