Senator among recent victims of 'swatting'
Sen. Rick Scott, R-Fla., explains why he believes he was a victim of a "swatting call" along with other lawmakers on "Jesse Watters Primetime."
The Southampton Village, New York, estate of George Soros was reportedly "swatted" on Saturday, adding the left-wing billionaire to a list of other high-profile people who have become victims of the 911 prank over the past couple of weeks.
The New York Post reported that the Southampton Village Police Department received a 911 call just before 9 p.m. on Saturday from a person who claimed that he shot his wife and threatened to kill himself at the mansion on Old Town Road.
Officers rushed to the scene, but the call turned out to be false, according to Southampton Village Detective Sgt. Herman Lamison, per the Post's report.
Southampton Village Police, including Lamison, did not immediately respond to inquiries from Fox News Digital on the matter.
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Left-wing billionaire, investor and philanthropist George Soros (Fabrice Coffrini/AFP via Getty Images)
Still, the Post said it acquired a recording of the police radio traffic in which one officer who responded to the scene said they spoke to security, searched the premises and determined it was a "negative problem."
A "swatting" crime targets a person by calling in a false police report for a violent crime — such as a murder, a hostage situation or other crimes that would require a greater law enforcement response — to the home of the target. The goal of the false police report is to elicit a SWAT team response by the police to the target's home. Consequently, swatting draws police resources away from real crimes while the state becomes the unwitting arm to terrorize a person at their own home.
Soros has backed dozens of far-left prosecutor candidates across several cities as part of his efforts to overhaul the criminal justice system, including Larry Krasner in Philadelphia, Kim Foxx in Chicago, former DA Kim Gardner in St. Louis and others.
However, Soros' work to overhaul the criminal justice system extends beyond prosecutors.
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Left-wing billionaire, investor and philanthropist George Soros recently handed control of his $25 billion empire to son Alex Soros. (Simon Dawson/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
One group funded by Soros, the Open Society Policy Center, which is an advocacy nonprofit in the Soros-bankrolled Open Society Foundations network, funneled $15.18 million to Future Forward USA Action in 2022 for research and "content testing on critical policy issues."
The nonprofit is tied to President Biden’s main outside super PAC for the 2024 elections, which evaluates crucial policy matters, according to records.
Since the 2020 election, Future Forward USA Action – which does not identify its donors – has steered $77 million into the Future Forward PAC, according to a search of Federal Election Commission records. During that time, the PAC raised roughly $181 million, meaning that more than 40% of the Biden PAC's funds came from its affiliated dark-money nonprofit.
Soros is the latest high-level figure to be "swatted" in the past few weeks.
2 GOP LAWMAKERS TARGETED IN CHRISTMAS DAY ‘SWATTING’ CALLS AS POLICE INVESTIGATE
Shenna Bellows, Maine's secretary of state, was swatted after she disqualified former President Trump from the state's 2024 primary ballot. (Joe Phelan/Portland Press Herald via Getty Images)
The home of Maine Secretary of State Shenna Bellows was swatted Friday evening and came after she disqualified former President Trump from the state’s 2024 Republican presidential primary ballot late Thursday.
On Christmas Day, Republican U.S. Reps. Brandon Williams of New York and Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia were also the targets of swatting calls.
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Then last Tuesday, Republican state Rep. Kevin D. Miller of Ohio reported that he was swatted.
Fox News Digital's Brie Stimson and Joe Schoffstall contributed to this report.
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