Hunter Biden’s lawyers admitted that the infamous laptop does indeed belong to him.
Early February, Hunter Biden’s lawyers admitted that the laptop which Hunter reportedly abandoned at a Delaware computer repair shop was his.
The revelation came out as Hunter’s lawyers sought a criminal probe into his opposition for what they called “attempts” to “weaponize” his laptop’s contents.
Biden’s attorney Abbe Lowell claimed in the 14-page letter to Delaware Attorney General Kathy Jennings that repair shop owner John Paul Mac Isaac “unlawfully” accessed Hunter’s laptop data.
Lowell also alleged that Isaac worked with former US President Donald Trump’s personal lawyer Rudy Giuliani to “weaponize” the incriminating contents on it against US President Joe Biden.
“This failed dirty political trick directly resulted in the exposure, exploitation, and manipulation of Mr. Biden’s private and personal information. Mr. Mac Isaac’s intentional, reckless, and unlawful conduct allowed for hundreds of gigabytes of Mr. Biden’s personal data, without any discretion, to be circulated around the Internet.” Lowell wrote.
The controversy arose after Hunter failed to pick up the laptop from Isaac, who took possession of it and a hard drive in 2019, months after notifying Hunter that the device was ready to be picked up.
“Once the shop owner saw the laptop’s contents — including emails detailing influence-peddling involving then-Vice President Joe Biden and videos of the younger Biden smoking crack and having sex with prostitutes and his work subordinates — he alerted the FBI,” the New York Post reported.
In December 2019, the FEDS, picked up the laptop. However, Mac Isaac reportedly made a copy of the contents and gave it to Giuliani’s personal lawyer, Robert Costello and in October 2020, Giuliani gave The Post a copy of the hard drive.
In the letter, Lowell’s letter called out “Mac Isaac, Giuliani, Costello, former Trump White House adviser Steve Bannon, former Trump White House aide Garrett Ziegler, Bannon associate Jack Maxey, and Yaacov Apelbaum, founder and CEO of cyber analytics firm XRVision and former aide to Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.),” for allegedly gaining unauthorized access to the laptop’s contents and disseminating it to the media and lawmakers.
“We believe that the facts and circumstances merit further investigation as to whether the conduct of Messrs. Mac Isaac, Costello, Giuliani, Bannon, Ziegler, Maxey, and Apelbaum violated several provisions of Delaware’s criminal code — including, but not necessarily limited to, computer-related property offenses … theft … possession of stolen property … and misapplication of another’s property … Each of these offenses, if violated, has the potential to be a felony, depending on the value of the property in question,” Lowell wrote.
On Wednesday, Hunter’s lawyer sent the letters to the Justice Department’s National Security Division and the IRS.
