Jack Smith, the special counsel overseeing the prosecution of former President Donald Trump, joined a wide slate of people over the holidays who were targeted with "swatting" calls at their homes, according to reports Tuesday.
Smith's Maryland home was targeted on Christmas, according to sources familiar with the situation, reports ABC News.
Police in Montgomery County, Maryland, working with U.S. Marshals, determined Smith was under no threat. Federal investigators and the special counsel's office declined to comment.
Smith, under appointment by Attorney General Merrick Garland, is in charge of investigating charges of election interference and the mishandling of classified documents.
Meanwhile, Tanya Chutkan, the judge overseeing Trump's federal election interference case, was also the victim of a swatting, or fake crime report, call about her home in Washington, D.C. The Washington Metropolitan Police Department said officers responded to a house in the District around 10 p.m. after getting a call that there had been a shooting.
They said the situation was quickly contained. The U.S. Marshals Service, which protects federal judges, did not comment on the incident.
Several lawmakers were targeted by swatting late last month, including Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., and Republican Georgia state Sens. John Albers, Kay Kirkpatrick, Clint Dixon, and Democrat Kim Jackson, all on Christmas.
Republican Georgia Lt. Gov. Burt Jones said his home was "swatted" and that someone called in a bomb threat to his district office.
Rep. Brandon Williams, R-N.Y., and Sen. Rick Scott, R-Fla., also had their houses swatted, and police responded to Republican Ohio state Rep. Kevin Miller's home the day after Christmas when there were fake reports made about a shooting there.
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