Judge Esther Salas, a U.S. District Judge from New Jersey, became indirectly linked to the Jeffrey Epstein scandal when she was assigned to oversee a class-action lawsuit against Deutsche Bank. The suit accused the bank of misleading investors and failing to properly monitor high-risk clients, specifically naming Jeffrey Epstein as one of those clients. Salas’s court was tasked with examining whether Deutsche Bank had turned a blind eye to Epstein’s suspicious transactions and continued to profit from his accounts even after his 2008 conviction. The case drew significant attention because it tied one of the world’s largest financial institutions to the Epstein network and the alleged laundering of money connected to his sex trafficking operation.

Tragically, just days after Judge Salas took on the case, a gunman disguised as a FedEx delivery driver attacked her home. Her husband, defense attorney Mark Anderl, was critically injured, and her 20-year-old son, Daniel, was shot and killed when he opened the door. The shooter, later identified as Roy Den Hollander—a self-described “anti-feminist” lawyer who had previously appeared before Salas in an unrelated case—was found dead from a self-inflicted gunshot wound. Although there is no confirmed link between the attack and the Epstein-related case, the timing sparked widespread speculation and concern about potential motives and judicial security.


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