Ex-officer Nicholas Tartaglione sentenced to 4 consecutive life sentences in quadruple murder

 Nicholas Tartaglione will spend the rest of his life in prison for a quadruple murder and kidnapping in Westchester County. He was sentenced to 4 consecutive life terms on Monday.

The former Briarcliff Manor officer was convicted in federal court of killing four men in Orange County.

The four men were murdered more than 8 years ago - one of them beaten and strangled to death and the three others shot execution style in a case that went cold for months before the former cop was finally arrested in a federal investigation.

Family members three of the victims were extremely emotional calling Nicholas Tartaglione a monster. The judge agreed with them looking at him and saying 'yes, you are a monster' as he sentenced him to 4 consecutive life sentences.

"It's just a very emotional day for both sides of the situation," Stephanie Nuss, Nicholas Tartaglione's cousin, said.

That intense emotion from family members of three of the victims, who did not speak with reporters outside the courthouse, but inside, urged the judge not to let Tartaglione ever see the light of day again.

The former Briarcliff Manor police officer was found guilty last year of killing Martin Luna Miguel Luna and Urbano Santiago who were all family members and their friend Hector Gutierrez in April of 2016 after torturing them and burying them in shallow graves on his Orange County property, believing that at least one of the men owed him hundreds of thousands of dollars in a cocaine deal.

Tartaglione also spoke at sentencing, denying it all, defiantly telling the judge he was an animal rescuing former law enforcement officer who never could have done any of this and was framed.

But the judge slammed his denials calling him delusional, and saying the evidence against him at trial was overwhelming, that his brutal crimes back in 2016 involved torture, planning, greed and cover-ups, and scolding him for his lack of acceptance or remorse.

The only person to speak outside court was Tartaglione's only family member at the proceeding. She said she believes her cousin is innocent and looks forward to his appeal, but doesn't blame the victim's family members for directing their anger at him.