WHITE PLAINS: Former Yonkers PD Officer Nicholas Tartaglione, who is facing federal murder and drug conspiracy charges in a 2016 quadruple homicide in Orange County, has begun before U.S. District Judge Kenneth Karas.

Yonkers native Nicholas Tartaglione, 55, was a cop for short stints in Mount Vernon, Pawling and Briarcliff Manor.

The Yonkers man moved to Orange County after his retirement and was selling steroids and other drugs.

After a drug deal gone bad Tartaglione lured Martin Luna to a bar with his nephew, Miguel Luna; his niece’s fiancee, Urbano Santiago; and a family friend, Hector Gutierrez.

Their bodies were discovered after Tartaglione was arrested; buried on property where he had lived at the time of the disappearance.

Former Haverstraw police officer Gerard Benderoth the four men at the bar and then bringing three of them to the Mount Hope property after Tartaglione had allegedly killed Luna.

Benderoth killed himself as FBI agents approached his car near an Elementary School in Haverstraw.

Tartaglione sharing a cell with sex offender and financier Jeffrey Epstein, who was found injured and semiconscious on the floor of his cell, with marks around his neck.

Tartaglione, who was awaiting trial for the four counts of murder, was questioned about Epstein’s condition.

He denied having any knowledge of what happened. Epstein.

After that incident, Epstien was placed in a special housing unit with another inmate, where jailers said he committed suicide.

If convicted, Tartaglione faces life in prison.