The gunman who shot the husband and son of a federal judge in New Jersey is believed to be an “anti-feminist’ lawyer who was found dead of an apparently self-inflicted gunshot wound hours later, two law-enforcement sources told The Daily Beast.Roy Den Hollander, 72, was discovered by a cleaning crew in the upstate New York town of Rockland, the sources said. He had with him a package addressed to U.S. District Judge Esther Salas—as well as papers that contained the name of another men’s rights lawyer, Marc Angelucci, who was gunned down at his home last week.Den Hollander had a case—a challenge to the military’s male-only draft—pending before Salas, according to court documents. And in an essay posted online last year about his battle with melanoma, he made clear his animus toward the trail-blazing jurist, referring to her as “a lazy and incompetent Latina judge.”On his website, Den Hollander spewed invective about women and anyone else he felt had wronged him. “Now is the time for all good men to fight for their rights before they have no rights left,” he wrote. The site also contained a list of his media appearances and a compilation of misogynistic comments under the heading “Jokes.”His family could not be reached for comment.The Manhattan attorney’s emergence as the suspect was a shocking twist in the Sunday evening shooting—when a man possibly dressed as a FedEx delivery driver showed up on Salas’ doorstep in North Brunswick, New Jersey.Daniel Anderl, 20, the judge’s only child, who was home from college, was shot through the heart and did not survive the attack. His father, criminal-defense lawyer Mark Anderl, 63, was said to be in critical condition after surgery. NBC New York reported that Salas—whose caseload has included cases involving Real Housewives celebs and Jeffrey Epstein—was in the basement and was unharmed when the gunfire erupted shortly after 5 p.m. At 8:15 a.m. Monday, two Sullivan County Department of Public Works employees were doing storm clean-up when they saw a blue Toyota drive past, heading towards a dead end, sources said. When they finished work, they saw the car parked on the shoulder of the road and found Den Hollander on the passenger side with a gunshot wound to the head.Inside there was a .380 pistol and the FedEx package, which investigators believe the lawyer may have intended to use to get face-to-face with the judge, the law enforcement sources said. The sources did not know the nature of the papers that mentioned Angelucci, an attorney who worked on similar cases and was shot dead at his house in California a week ago. The San Bernardino Sheriff’s Office said Monday that no arrests have been made in Angelucci’s death but had no further comment.Men’s Rights Activist Marc Angelucci Shot Dead at His California HomeAccording to a GoFundMe account under his name and his Facebook page, Den Hollander had recently battled cancer and was angry about his medical care, posting a jeremiad about doctors who he felt were not responsive or were trying to push certain treatments on him. “The Stones in their song ‘Sympathy for the Devil’ left out one category—cancer doctors, not all, but many,” he wrote. “Nine alleged followers of the Hippocratic Oath sent me (Roy Den Hollander) on an end of life horror crossing the river Styx that one cancer doctor said would end during the holiday season of 2019. Hopefully, things improve once I reach the other side.”Den Hollander was well known for filing suits that alleged women get unconstitutional special treatment, and for pushing to outlaw Ladies’ Nights at bars and nightclubs and women’s studies programs at universities. According to his website, it appears his foray in the men’s rights movement was sparked by his marriage to a Russian woman he met while working for the investigative firm Kroll Associates in the late 1990s; he alleges she was really a prostitute who swindled him.In 2016, he also filed a ludicrous suit against reporters from CBS News, NBC News, ABC News, CNN, PBS News Hour, The New York Times and The Washington Post, claiming their stories on President Trump amounted to a violation of the anti-racketeering statute used to prosecute mobsters.In a 2013 interview with the New York Daily News about the latest in his string of legal defeats, Den Hollander expressed frustration.“I’m beginning to think it’s time for vigilante justice—civil disobedience,” he said, telling the newspaper that he “may pull a Carrie Nation on the Ladies’ Nights clubs.” The case Den Hollander was involved in as an adviser that ended up in Salas’ courtroom was filed in 2015 on behalf of the mother of a 17-year-old New Jersey girl and argued that the Selective Service System barring females from registering for the draft while making it mandatory for males was illegal. Oral arguments on a motion were scheduled for last month but then postponed due to “unforeseen circumstances,” according to the case docket.His insulting reference to Salas in his writings, first reported by NBC News, was in a series of screeds he posted online that formed a sort of memoir stretching all the way back to his breech birth in 1947.Salas, the first Latina to serve on the New Jersey federal bench, was appointed as a magistrate judge in 2006 and a district judge in 2010. Raised in New Jersey, she previously worked as a county prosecutor and then a federal public defender.Last Thursday, Salas was assigned to be the judge on a lawsuit brought by investors against Deutsche Bank and its CEO over its business dealings with the late convicted pedophile Jeffrey Epstein.But prior to Sunday, Salas was probably best known as the judge who presided over the fraud case of Real Housewives of New Jersey stars Teresa and Joe Giudice; she sentenced the couple to prison after a tongue-lashing in 2014.Teresa Giudice’s attorney told ABC News that her client was “very shaken by the news and was very emotional when she heard about it. She told me that she would be praying very heavily for Judge Salas and her family. This is absolutely devastating.”Daniel Salas was about to start his junior year at Catholic University in Washington, D.C., where he played golf and was on the dean’s list. “He was planning on going to law school,” a friend, Joe Mauro, told the Newark Star-Ledger. “He had his whole future ahead...”Read more at The Daily Beast.Got a tip? Send it to The Daily Beast hereGet our top stories in your inbox every day. Sign up now!Daily Beast Membership: Beast Inside goes deeper on the stories that matter to you. Learn more.
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