“I think she cried for a week and that’s just in D.C.,” she said. “He was her only child.”
Judge Salas was the first Hispanic woman to serve as a federal judge in New Jersey.
President Barack Obama nominated her to the United States District Court for New Jersey in 2010. She had previously served as a magistrate judge and an assistant federal public defender.
Last week, Judge Salas was assigned to a class-action lawsuit a group of investors filed against Deutsche Bank, contending that the firm failed to flag questionable transactions that were made from the account of the financier Jeffrey Epstein, who died last August while in jail awaiting trial on sex trafficking charges.
In 2014, Judge Salas sentenced two married stars of the “Real Housewives of New Jersey” television show to prison time after the couple pleaded guilty to fraud charges.
Judge Salas sentenced one of the stars, Teresa Giudice, to 15 months in prison and her husband, Giuseppe Giudice, known as Joe, to 41 months. The judge staggered the sentences because of the couple’s four young daughters, The Associated Press reported.
Judge Salas met her husband, a defense lawyer, when he was a prosecutor in the Essex County Prosecutor’s Office, according to a 2018 profile of her in New Jersey Monthly.
“We’ve been inseparable since 1992,” she told the magazine.
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