Annalisa Torres has been appointed a judge in the case of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro, who was captured by US authorities, after the death of Alvin Hellerstein, who led the process, according to updated records of the federal court of the Southern District of New York. Torres has served as a judge in the said court since 2013. In 2022, he closed the case against the prison officials who were on duty the night American financier Jeffrey Epstein, who was convicted of crimes related to the sexual abuse of minors, committed suicide in his cell.