Suspicious Package Sent to Robert De Niro

Robert De Niro is the latest critic of Donald Trump to receive a suspicious package in the mail. Many of the packages have contained pipe bombs, although none have yet exploded. Read on for details.

Via The New York Post.

A suspicious package was sent to Robert De Niro’s Tribeca restaurant, police sources told The Post early Thursday.

The parcel, which was addressed to De Niro, was sent to the Tribeca Grill at 375 Greenwich St. Police X-rayed the package and found it to be “the same” as the explosive devices mailed to top Democrats the day before, the sources said.

Security personnel at Tribeca Productions — a film and TV production company co-founded in 1989 by De Niro at the same location — notified police of the package at about 5 a.m., a law enforcement source told The Post.

It was located on the seventh floor, law enforcement sources told CNN. There was no need for an evacuation because the building was unoccupied.

The package had a return address to the Florida office of Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz, the former chairwoman of the Democratic National Committee.

Suspicious packages sent Wednesday to prominent Democrats also contained her return address. It was unclear if her name was spelled incorrectly, as it previously had been.

The NYPD Bomb Squad removed the device at 6:30 a.m. and transported it to the police range at Rodman’s Neck in The Bronx.

De Niro, a vocal critic of President Trump, unleashed a torrent of obscenities at the commander-in-chief during the recent Tony Awards as he introduced Bruce Springsteen.

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