Inmate questioned after Jeffrey Epstein is found nearly unconscious in jail cell

An inmate was questioned over an incident in which financier and convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein was found nearly unconscious in his New York City jail cell, WNBC reports.

Sources told the station that investigators interrogated Nicholas Tartaglione, a former police officer in Westchester County who was arrested three years ago and accused of murdering four men in an alleged cocaine distribution scheme. Epstein was found sprawled across the floor with injuries to his neck earlier this week following what some sources said could have been a suicide attempt.

Tartaglione reportedly told investigators that he did not see anything and denied any suggestions that he touched Epstein. His lawyer Bruce Barket said that the two, in fact, get along well.

"They are in the same unit and doing well," Barket said, adding that any accusation that suggests that his client hurt the billionaire is "absolutely not true."

The attorney added that Tartaglione and Epstein had been complaining about conditions at the Metropolitan Correctional Center, where they are being held.

On Wednesday, the New York Post reported that investigators believe Epstein may have tried to hurt himself in an effort to get transferred to another jail. It is now unclear whether they think Epstein's complaints about the jail's cleanliness had anything to do with Tuesday's incident.

Epstein was arrested on July 7 after the Miami Herald published a bombshell report that revealed he had sexually abused underage girls between 2002 and 2005. The financier had been convicted of soliciting an underage prostitute in 2008 and subsequently served a controversial 13-month sentence for the crime.

Last Thursday, a judge denied bail for Epstein after prosecutors claimed he was a flight risk. Prosecutor also accused him of tampering with witnesses by wiring a total of $350,000 to his co-conspirators.

"This course of action, and in particular its timing, suggests the defendant was attempting to further influence co-conspirators who might provide information against him in light of the recently re-emerging allegations," the prosecution wrote in court papers.