Trump fraud trial judge home was swatting target, police say

• Police are investigating a swatting incident at the New York home of the judge set to hear closing arguments in the business fraud trial of former President Donald Trump.
• An email making a threat to the home of Judge Arthur Engoron was sent to a Long Island newspaper, Nassau County Police told CNBC.
• The threat comes on the heels of swatting calls made about the homes of Department of Justice Special Counsel Jack Smith and the judge presiding over a criminal case against Trump.

Police are investigating a swatting incident at the New York home of the judge set to hear closing arguments later Thursday morning in the business fraud trial of former President Donald Trump.

It is the second time in days that a swatting attempt has been made against a judge handling a case involving Trump. Swatting involves false claims of violence or other incidents at other people's homes or businesses to get police to swarm those locations.

An email making a threat to the Long Island home of Judge Arthur Engoron was sent to a local newspaper, Nassau County Police told CNBC on Thursday morning.

The newspaper called police at 5:30 a.m. ET to relay the threat, police said.

Officers who responded to Engoron's home did not find a threat to the judge at the residence.

The Daily Beast news outlet and NBC News reported that a bomb threat had been made against Engoron's home, but a spokesman for the Nassau County Police Department would not confirm the nature of the threat to CNBC.

Closing arguments in Trump's civil fraud trial are still set to begin at 10 a.m. ET in Manhattan Supreme Court despite the threat. Trump arrived at the court Thursday to attend as he had planned.

The threat came a day after Engoron denied a request by Trump's lawyer to