A bomb threat was called against a New York civil courthouse on Tuesday, delaying proceedings while court officers swept New York’s Downtown Manhattan court facilities, Law360’s Frank Runyeon first reported. The threat came from a 911 caller, and the delay impacted cases including the New York Attorney General’s fraud suit against the Trump Organization and the Trump family. The caller did not mention Trump, according to a court official who spoke to Runyeon.
The call was one of multiple unfounded threats made against the Manhattan District Attorney’s office, the NYPD headquarters and the city’s downtown courthouses on Tuesday, the same day former President Donald Trump announced last weekend that he expected to be arrested in connection to a Manhattan DA investigation, Molly Crane-Newman and Thomas Tracy report for the New York Daily News.