From Heavy.com:
A Miami federal judge [employed by the Social Security Administration], already under investigation, armed and barricaded in his home with family members as possible hostages surrounded by tactical police has reportedly shot and killed himself, a veteran Miami crime journalist reported.
Federal administrative law judge Timothy Maher was arrested last week for threatening the mother of his child with a rifle and was this week alleged to have threatened a co-worker in a federal building. ...
It was reported that police negoiators could be heard saying, “Anybody living or inside the residence at 23985, if you can hear me, all I need you to do is turn some lights on and off anywhere in your house so my team can see that you’re OK.”
There were conflicting reports of who was inside the home, but reports said police could be heard calling out to the house through a megaphone for a 13-year-old girl believed to be inside be released. ...
2 comments:
Very sad and tragic news. His older reviews on DisabilityJudges suggest someone who was very much in control, at least over the past several years before all this began to unravel. This whole sequence of events is shocking... and, as with the Huntington debacle, is going to lead to increased scrutiny and years' worth of pain for every other ALJ in the corps. I wish much comfort and peace to the family members and other victims that he has left behind.
This is too sad for words. May God rest this man's troubled soul.
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