Trump fraud trial judge Arthur Engoron’s Long Island home target of bomb threat, say Nassau police

Someone made a bomb threat at the Long Island home of the judge overseeing former President Donald Trump’s Manhattan civil fraud trial Thursday, authorities said.

The threat came just hours before Judge Arthur Engoron was expected to hear closing arguments in the fraud trial, where the former president’s real estate firm is accused of illegally inflating the value of Trump-owned properties — including Mar-a-Lago in Florida and his Wall Street skyscraper — by billions of dollars in paperwork submitted to banks and lenders.

Nassau police were called to Engoron’s Great Neck home early Thursday in response to an email claiming that a bomb was on the property, said police sources with knowledge of the case.

The bomb squad was called in to do a sweep, but no explosives were found, the source said.

A Nassau County police spokesman confirmed Thursday morning that they were investigating “a swatting incident at a Great Neck home,” but would not divulge any other details.

No arrests have been made as Nassau County police continue to investigate the incident. Detectives on Thursday were trying to track down where the email that sparked the response came from.

Swatting occurs when someone sends an email or calls 911 with a bogus emergency report to illicit a police response.

Ten New York City schools were the objects of swatting threats last year. Bogus emergency calls also were made against nearly 200 Jewish institutions across the country in the weeks following the beginning of the Hamas war.

Thursday’s case being heard in Manhattan Supreme Court will continue despite the threat although it may begin later than expected, court officials said.

On Wednesday, Engoron shot down a request by Trump to speak at his own summation, telling his attorneys that the former president has so far refused to abide by “reasonable, lawful limits” set by the court.

During the months-long trial, Trump has repeatedly lambasted Engoron and New York Attorney General Letitia James, whose office brought the fraud case.

In a video on Tuesday, Trump slammed “the corrupt, Soros-backed, New York State Attorney General Tish James-controlled Judge Engoron.”

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