The man suspected in the murder of federal judge Esther Salas’ son last summer before he committed suicide, He was also tracking down and collecting information about Supreme Court Judge Sonia Sotomayor, Salas said in an interview before the ’60 minutes’ program of the CBS chain. It was scheduled to air next Sunday, but a preview clip was previewed on Friday.
Roy Den Hollander set up an ambush against Salas and his family when he camouflaged himself as a FedEx delivery man and came to the house where they lived, said the judge himself, who works for the New Jersey district and the authorities are considering. The defendant was a men’s rights attorney with a history of anti-feminist writing.
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Daniel Anderl, 20, died after being shot. Mark Anderl, Salas’s husband, was seriously injuredThe federal judge was in a different part of the house at the time and was unharmed.
Den Hollander, 72, was found dead by a self-inflicted gunshot the day after the ambush of Salas and his family. The FBI found that the man was carrying a document information on about twelve judges in the country, half of them of Spanish descent such as Salas and Sotomayor
The judge said that when the FBI found the documentation Den Hollander had with him, realized she wasn’t alone in his crosshairsThey found another gun, a Glock, and more ammunition. But the most disturbing thing they found was a folder containing information about Judge Sonia Sotomayor, ”he said, a fact he found“ creepy ”.
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When asked by the show’s interviewer, Bill Whitaker, if he thought the suspect was chasing Sotomayor as he did to her, Slas replied, “Who knows what could have happened? But we have to understand that the judges are in danger. . ” He added, “We put ourselves in grave danger every day doing our jobs.”
After Salas’ statement came out, both the Supreme Court and the FBI declined to comment., AP said. “We are not talking about security as a matter of court policy,” said court spokeswoman Kathy Arberg in an email.
Salas has called for more privacy and protection for judges, including removing personal information from the internet, to address the growing cyber threats against these legal professionals.
The Marshals Service, which guarantees the protection of approximately 2,700 federal judges, said there were 4,449 threats and improper communication in 2019, compared to 926 such incidents in 2015.
A law named after Salas’s son that would make it easier to protect judges’ personal information was not approved by the Senate in December, but could be reintroduced this year.
With information from CBS 60 minutes and AP.