Arthur Engoron swatted hours before closing arguments in Trump’s New York civil fraud case

The judge overseeing former President Donald Trump‘s $370 million civil fraud trial in New York was swatted on Thursday ahead of closing arguments in the case.

Judge Arthur Engoron was the victim of a false bomb threat called to his house early Thursday morning, but proceedings in the case will go forward as scheduled, a court spokesman told USA Today.

FILE – Judge Arthur Engoron, sit on the bench inside New York Supreme Court, Tuesday, Oct. 10, 2023, in New York. Authorities on Thursday, Jan. 11, 2024, have responded to a bomb threat at the home of Engoron, who is overseeing Donald Trump’s New York civil fraud trial. They found no bomb and and the trial’s closing arguments are to proceed normally. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig, File)

“There was a threat. I can confirm a bomb threat,” Al Baker told the outlet. “As of now we are going forward as scheduled and the court proceedings and closing arguments are going ahead as planned.”

A spokesperson for the Nassau County Police Department confirmed to the Washington Examiner it was investigating a swatting incident that occurred Thursday morning but would not confirm who the resident of the home that faced it was.

Closing arguments in the fraud case have begun. The trial has spanned two and a half months and saw several witnesses testify, including the former president.

Trump had been vying to deliver his own closing argument before the court, but Engoron stopped him from doing so on Wednesday after the judge, and Trump’s lawyers could not come to an agreement over the scope of what he would say.

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Several public officials have been victims of swatting incidents in recent weeks, including members of Congress and a judge in Trump’s Washington, D.C., election subversion case.

The Washington Examiner reached out to the court for comment on the threat.