Hunter Biden drops laptop lawsuit against Rudy Giuliani
Hunter Biden is dropping his lawsuit accusing Rudy Giuliani and the former New York City mayor’s ex-lawyer of manipulating data found on his infamous laptop.
Biden’s lawyer Abbe Lowell filed the stipulation for dismissal Thursday in the US District Court for the Southern District of New York.
The attorney asked the court to dismiss the lawsuit against Giuliani and Robert Costello “without prejudice, with each party bearing its own attorneys’ fees, costs, and expenses.”
Attorneys for all three parties have agreed to the stipulation, court documents show.
The lawsuit claimed that Giuliani, 80, and Costello violated the federal Computer Fraud and Abuse Act when they allegedly hacked and manipulated data on the abandoned laptop in a “total annihilation” of the disgraced first son’s “digital privacy.”
Filed last September, the lawsuit sought more than $75,000 in damages, plus attorneys’ fees and other penalties.
“This dismissal – along with Hunter Biden’s conviction based on evidence taken from the laptop – is a vindication for Mr. Giuliani and Mr. Costello as well as all of the media outlets who broke the laptop story in 2020 and suffered orchestrated censorship by social media, the leftist mainstream media, and others who engaged in election interference,” Giuliani’s attorney Joe Sibley said in a statement to The Post.
Sibley argued that Biden’s legal team agreed to dismiss the lawsuit because “they know they have problems on the merits.”
Lowell and Costello’s lawyer did not respond to The Post’s requests for comment.
The motion to dismiss the suit must be approved by US District Judge Jessica Clarke before it is finalized.
Biden, 54, was convicted of three felony counts Tuesday related to lying about his drug use when he purchased a Colt Cobra revolver from a Delaware gun shop in October 2018.
The government used data taken from his infamous laptop – which he never picked up from a Wilmington, De., computer repair store in April 2019 – to prove its case that the first son was addicted to crack cocaine when he bought the firearm.
The computer repair shop owner – John Paul Mac Isaac – gave Biden’s hard drive to the FBI after unearthing evidence of illegal financial activity, drug use and patronization of prostitutes.
Mac Isaac made a copy of the hard drive before turning it over to the feds, which he gave to Costello in August 2020.
Giuliani, then a client of Costello’s, provided The Post with a copy of the hard drive in October 2020, leading to a series of exclusive, bombshell stories detailing the Biden family’s overseas business interests and the role President Biden may have played in making money for his relatives.
“Mayor Rudy Giuliani has again proven himself to be telling the truth, while those going after him and President Donald Trump have been proven to be liars. All of the false charges that Hunter Biden made against Mayor Rudy Giuliani, his lawyer Bob Costello and others, have been withdrawn and proven to be entirely false,” Ted Goodman, a spokesperson for Giuliani, told The Post.
“This should serve as a reminder to people that — despite the unrelenting attacks by partisan Democrats and their allies in the permanent Washington political class — Mayor Rudy Giuliani’s integrity and commitment to the truth is unwavering.
“Mayor Giuliani was right about the Russian collusion hoax, he was right about the Ukrainian quid-pro-quo hoax, and he’s right about Hunter Biden’s laptop. It’s yet another reason why Joe Biden’s FBI — after raiding the mayor’s house and law office, and after conducting a multi-year investigation — reported that they found no evidence of any criminal activity whatsoever.”
