Published 14:30 IST, July 20th 2020
Jeffrey Epstein's case: US Federal judge's son shot dead, husband critically injured
Son of US Federal Judge Esther Salas was killed and her husband is reportedly in a critical condition after they were both shot at their home in New Jersey
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son of a US District Judge Esr Salas was killed and her husband is reportedly in a critical condition after y were both shot at ir home in North Brunswick, New Jersey in evening of July 19. incident happened just four days after Salas, who was nominated by former President Barack Obama in 2011, was assigned a case related to Jeffery Epstein.
Salas was in basement
According to international media reports, a man dressed as a FedX driver opened fire at Salas' husband Mark, immediately after he answered door. Following which, ir son Daniel came running to door and was also shot at. International media reported that Salas was supposedly in basement when gruesome incident happened. Speaking about incident, state’s governor Gov. Phil Murphy said that shooting was a reminder that gun violence was still a crisis and "that our work to make every community safer isn’t done."
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Salas, who is a judge at US District Court in Newark h previously presided over many high profile cases including that of actress Teresa Giudice. More recently, she was appointed to preside over a lawsuit brought by Deutsche Bank investors. Earlier this month, New York state financial regulators revealed that Deutsche Bank h agreed to a $150 million penalty related to bank’s alleged oversight in dealing with accused child trafficker Jeffrey Epstein, as well as two client banks- Danske Bank Estonia and FBME Bank. regulators said that German bank failed to monitor account activity conducted on behalf of registered sex offender.
Last month, Epstein's ally Ghislaine Maxwell was arrested on federal charges that she recruited girls as young as 14 for him to abuse. Meanwhile, financial regulator said that because of Deutsche bank’s oversight failure with Epstein, “bank processed hundreds of transactions totalling millions of dollars that, at very least, should have prompted ditional scrutiny in light of Mr Epstein’s history.”
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14:30 IST, July 20th 2020