(Ben Sellers, Headline USA) The former cellmate of Jeffrey Epstein claimed that James Comey’s prosecutor daughter offered the billionaire pedophile a deal to implicate President Donald Trump.
Maurene Comey, who recently resigned as the walls closed in on her notorious FBI father, began serving in 2016 as assistant U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York.
That put her front and center in the investigations of Epstein and his accomplice, Ghislaine Maxwell after Epstein was arrested in July 2019.
While detained in New York’s Metropolitan Correctional Center, Epstein was assigned to a cell with Nicholas Tartaglione, a former police officer who was serving time for kidnapping and quadruple murder.
Tartaglione was convicted of killing a man he suspected of stealing some $250,000 in drug money, as well as his nephews and a family friend who “were in the wrong place at the wrong time,” prosecutors said, according to the New York Post.
During the month that Epstein was incarcerated before his apparent suicide, Tartaglione claimed in a recent pardon application that his cellmate had the opportunity to save his skin by throwing the sitting president under the bus.
“Prosecutors … told Epstein that if he said President Trump was involved with Esptein’s crimes he would walk free. in a petition to be pardoned,” according to the Post, which said it had obtained a copy of the filing.
“Epstein told me that Maurene Comey said that he didn’t have to prove anything, as long as President Trump’s people could not disprove it,” the pardon application added. “According to Maurene Comey, the FBI were ‘her people, not his [President Trump’s].’”
Maurene Comey’s father was forced out of his role as FBI director roughly two years prior. However, questions have continued to swirl about the dubious loyalties of officials including then-Attorney General William Barr and then-FBI Director Christopher Wray.
Even so, questions about Tartaglione’s credibility may outweigh the suspicions against the Deep State.
Epstein reported that his cell mate had attempted to attack and kill him during their time together, according to a memorandum from the responding officer.
lol this is the guy who probably tried to kill Epstein the first time https://t.co/lW11rKK0ar pic.twitter.com/a2BCOdHyud
— Ken Silva (@JD_Cashless) November 6, 2025
“He sat up on the bed and began telling me that he [thinks] his bunkine … tried to kill him,” the memo said.
Tartaglione contradicted the report, saying he had, in fact, tried to revive Epstein.
No camera footage was available due to issues with the surveillance system.
Ben Sellers is a freelance writer and former editor of Headline USA. Follow him at x.com/realbensellers.
