WHITE PLAINS, N.Y. _ Jeffrey Epstein's name was uttered just once in the federal courtroom but his memory hovered like a cloud over Wednesday's hearing for an ex-cop who shared a cell with him on the day last July when the accused sex trafficker allegedly tried to kill himself.
The former Briarcliff Manor officer, Nicholas Tartaglione, faces a possible death penalty for the gangland-style killing of four men in a soured drug deal in Chester, about an hour north of Manhattan.
If that weren't trouble enough, he has become entangled in the Epstein saga _ because many found it curious that the most high-profile inmate in the nation would be kept in the same jail cell as an alleged quadruple killer.
