Townsville Bulletin

Suicide in Epstein legal saga

- KATY HALL

THE man suspected of killing the son and wounding the husband of a high-profile federal judge in New Jersey has been identified as men’s rights activist and lawyer Roy Den Hollander.

According to his website, Den Hollander specialise­d in “anti-feminist cases” to “help battle the infringeme­nt of Men’s Rights by Feminists”.

Den Hollander ( pictured) dressed in a Fed Ex uniform and opened fire on Judge Esther Salas’s North B r u n s w i c k home on Monday (AEST), killing the judge’s son and injuring her defence lawyer husband.

Den Hollander was later found dead in Rockland, New York. Investigat­ors believe he shot himself hours after the attack on Judge Salas’s home.

Days prior to the shooting, Judge Salas was assigned a case involving the late billionair­e pedophile Jeffrey Epstein.

According to the New York Post, Judge Salas was assigned to handle a class-action lawsuit from Deutsche Bank investors who claim the company failed to monitor “high-risk” customers, including Epstein.

The investors also claim the bank made false and misleading statements about its antimoney-laundering policies.

Trump ‘on war footing’

US President Donald Trump has sparked fury among Democrats by threatenin­g to send paramilita­ry forces into Democrat-run cities to quell anti-racism protests in a move slammed as an election-year political stunt.

According to reports, the government was preparing to send 150 paramilita­ry personnel to Chicago after police clashed with demonstrat­ors seeking to tear down a statue of Christophe­r Columbus.

Last week, officers were sent to Portland, Oregon, to stop “anarchists”.

A video showed them taking protesters away in unmarked vehicles.

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