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A suspicious package was sent to the address of former Vice President Joseph Biden, FBI and Delaware law enforcement officials said Thursday, following a string of similar incidents involving other prominent Democratic figures.

Police in New Castle County, Delaware, and FBI officials said Thursday that a suspicious package had been mailed to the former vice president, Fox News reported.

FBI officials added that a second package addressed to Biden had been intercepted at a postal facility in Wilmington, Delaware. Both packages are reportedly similar to a series of suspicious packages sent to former President Barack Obama, 2016 presidential hopeful Hillary Clinton, billionaire and Democratic donor George Soros, and a number of current and former senior Democratic officials including former Attorney General Eric Holder and Congresswoman Maxine Waters.

Like previous packages, the packages mailed to Biden had the return address of former Democratic National Committee chief Debbie Wasserman Schultz.

Actor and prominent Trump-critic Robert De Niro also reportedly was mailed a similar package, FBI officials confirmed Thursday.

According to NBC, the device was sent to a building housing the Tribeca Grill owned by De Niro. The NYPD said there was no need to evacuate the building as it was unoccupied at the time.

A law enforcement official told NBC affiliate News 4 that a worker who had seen recent news about the bomb threats had called police after noticing similarities in the package.

An NYPD bomb squad removed the device.

A source said that the package that was addressed to De Niro had the same return address as the other packages, Congresswoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz, according to NBC.

Authorities are currently probing the wave of suspicious packages, and on Thursday said the investigation was the FBI’s highest priority.

Security officials searched the vice president’s residence in Wilmington, Delaware as a precautionary measure Wednesday, after other prominent Democratic officials were mailed suspicious packages.

On Wednesday, CNN’s New York main office was targeted with a similar suspicious package, also featuring Schultz’s return address.

In another development in the White House, it has been reported that President Trump slammed reports Russian and Chinese agents had hacked his private cell phone and were listening to his calls as “fake news.”

The New York Times reported that Trump had ignored the concerns of his aides that his private iPhone was unsecured and was using it to talk with friends and officials. According to the report, Russia and China have been listening into his discussions to gain leverage in China’s ongoing trade dispute with the US. (INN)

 

 

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