New York Post

Died with photo of different lady judge

- Bernadette Hogan and Aaron Feis

New York state’s top judge may also have been in the crosshairs of “anti-feminist” lawyer Roy Den Hollander — her photo was found in the car in which he killed himself, officials revealed Tuesday.

Chief Judge Janet DiFiore ge, is being guarded in the wake of the unnerving find, made after Hollander fatally shot a New Jersey federal jurist’s son and wounded her husband before taking his own life, according to Gov. Cuomo.

“In the car that the body was found [in], they also saw a picture of our chief judge, Janet DiFiore, her name and her address, so I have directed the State Police to provide security for our chief judge,” Cuomo told reporters in a conference call on Tuesday.

The exact link, if any, between Hollander and DiFiore wasn’t immediatel­y clear.

“We’re in the midst of an investigat­ion on it right now,” Cuomo said.

“We do know what’s in the public domain, the picture and the name and the address. But the circumstan­ces are very troubling, obviously.”

Hollander, 72, who was dying of melanoma, went to the New Jersey home of federal Judge Esther Salas on Sunday afternoon, disguised as a FedEx deliveryma­n, sources have said.

When the door opened, he shot both Salas’ 20-year-old son, Daniel Anderl, and her attorney husband, Mark Anderl, 63, then fled.

Salas, who was in the home’s basement at the time, was unharmed, but her son was killed and her husband critically wounded.

Hollander had recently withdrawn from a case in front of the jurist arguing that the military’s men-only draft is discrimina­tory, citing his cancer prognosis.

State courts spokesman Lucian Chalfen declined to comment on “anything related to security” and said DiFiore “won’t be commenting on the continuing investigat­ion.”

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