A shocking lawsuit alleges that the children of Democratic Senator Ron Wyden of Oregon relentlessly tortured their mother's personal assistant, leading to his suicide.

Brandon O'Brien, 35, worked for the senator's wife, Nancy Bass Wyden, owner of the famed Strand Bookstore, from June 2022 to September 2024 and was "often responsible" for caring for the couple's young children, including driving them to school in New York and watching them during trips to Disneyworld.

What O'Brien's Husband Alleges
The disturbing behavior began in September 2022, when the couple's then-10-year-old daughter made "sexually lewd" comments and asked him about his "personal life" while he was walking her to school, O'Brien's husband, Thomas Maltese, alleges in court documents filed against Bass Wyden and her company, Bass Real Estate LLC. He claims the girl's mother allegedly did nothing about her daughter's behavior.

The Wydens' teenage son also hurled homophobic slurs at O'Brien and threatened that "his football team would rape him," according to the lawsuit. He also allegedly threw objects at O’Brien, and the mother at one point used pepper spray on her son to restrain him, but accidentally sprayed her assistant as well. Maltese claims the incidents took place at Disney in front of him and his mother.

The businesswoman’s lawyers are asking that the lawsuit be dismissed, arguing that it is “baseless and deeply misleading” and “full of false allegations.” “This appears to be a continued effort to distract from O’Brien’s own serious misconduct, including a documented pattern of theft from those he once worked for,” a spokesperson said.

Resignation and suicide
O'Brien resigned on September 30, 2024, and a day later, Bass Wyden filed a complaint with the New York Police Department accusing him of stealing $650,000 from credit cards and other thefts. The businesswoman also allegedly hired a private investigator to "investigate Mr. O'Brien's personal life and business dealings" and "spread false rumors."

O'Brien committed suicide on May 26. Maltezos announced his death in a social media post, saying he was devastated. Authorities dropped the theft case after the suicide, while Maltezos' lawyers insisted the accusation was false.

The police in Gonnoi, Larissa, found themselves in front of an entire arsenal, when after 4 pm yesterday they managed to enter the carpentry shop of the 60-year-old, who a few minutes earlier had ended his life with a 38-caliber revolver after previously killing two people.

A total of two pistols, grenades, bullets, explosives and a Kalashnikov assault rifle were found at the scene.

The 60-year-old, after several hours earlier killing the distributor from Volos and the carpenter from Skiathos with a .38 revolver, called the police on Sunday morning, stating that he had killed two people in his carpentry shop, citing financial differences he had with the carpenter from Skiathos.

The police officers who immediately arrived at the scene found him holed up in his carpentry workshop holding a grenade and threatening to activate it if there was a raid.

Negotiations began and shortly before 4 pm the perpetrator of the double murder came out of the carpentry workshop shooting in the air with a Kalashnikov and then shot himself with the .38 revolver with which he committed the double murder.

According to what his lawyer stated, the motive for the murder was the "fake" IOUs he received from the sale of machinery from his carpentry workshop in Gonnoi. Shortly before shooting himself, he admitted that he had unjustly killed the distributor from Volos.

The "explosive" past of the murderer who took his own life
The 60-year-old suicide bomber had a variety of activities. He had run as a candidate for parliament with Golden Dawn, but failed to be elected. For years he was a member of Golden Dawn until almost 2015, when he was removed from the organization.

His familiarity with weapons was well-known. In fact, in 2001 he took responsibility for a grenade attack on Turkish truck drivers outside the Larissa Customs House.

Until late Sunday night, police officers continued the investigation at the carpentry shop while taking statements in order to piece together the entire puzzle of the double murder in Gonnoi, Larissa, which shocked the local community

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