On August 31, 2010, Senators Frank Lautenberg and Robert Menendez, announced they would recommend to Barack Obama that Salas be nominated to the United States District Court for the District of New Jersey as a U.S. District Court judge. nj.com/news/2010/08/s…
Obama nominated her on December 1, 2010, to a seat vacated by the retiring Katharine Sweeney Hayden. obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-offi…
Salas was the former president of the Hispanic Bar Association of New Jersey. She had both undergraduate and law degrees from Rutgers University.
She was a registered Democrat.
Judge Salas was the Judge responsible for the trial of Real Housewives of New Jersey star Teresa Giudice and her husband Giuseppe "Joe" Giudice. They were both sentenced for bank fraud on October 2, 2014.
Salas wasmarried to Mark Anderl, with whom she has a son, Daniel. Today, Salas’ husband and son were shot in their NJ home by an assailant dressed as a FedEx employee, killing her son and leaving her husband in critical condition.
The investigation is being led by the FBI.
The suspect remains at large.
It is not immediately clear who the target of the shooting was. Salas had been the target of threats, the Globe has learned. newjerseyglobe.com/judiciary/son-…
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The 70-month sentence imposed by U.S. District Judge Esther Salas was the minimum under federal guidelines.
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Judge Salas was recently assigned to a case involving Jeffrey Epstein. news.bloomberglaw.com/securities-law…
The case was filed on July 15, 2020. globenewswire.com/news-release/2…
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Judge Salas was unharmed in the attack, which is thought to happened around 5pm, and she was believed to have been in the basement of the home at the time of the shooting, according to NBC New York. apple.news/A07ezZ5LFSYO8W…
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