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The lawsuit alleges that Giuliani and Costello utilized Hunter Biden's username to gain unauthorized access to his data, subsequently creating duplicates and distributing it to individuals such as Steve Bannon. There has been no immediate response from Giuliani and Costello regarding the requests for comment. As a result of the obtained data, a continuous stream of revelations concerning Hunter Biden's tumultuous personal life and extravagant professional endeavors has emerged. Numerous headlines in conservative media and Republican circles have been fueled by purported emails and images originating from Hunter Biden's laptop data, giving rise to allegations of corruption. However, the lawsuit contends that certain portions of the data were tampered with, manipulated, and altered. Furthermore, the lawsuit references Giuliani's statements made on a podcast and his nightly YouTube show, during which he proudly boasted about his unrestricted access to the aforementioned dat

Hunter Biden filed a lawsuit against Rudy Giuliani and his former attorney on Tuesday, alleging that they hacked and manipulated data on an external hard drive connected to his laptop. Giuliani and attorney Robert Costello have openly admitted to accessing the hard drive's data. The lawsuit accuses them of investing a significant amount of time and effort into searching for, hacking into, tampering with, manipulating, copying, disseminating, and generally fixating on data that they received, which was either taken or stolen. Giuliani has attempted to portray Hunter Biden as a corrupt businessman who profited from his father's political influence. Both Giuliani and Costello claim that they obtained the hard drive in 2020 from a computer repair shop owner in Delaware. The shop owner asserts that Hunter Biden left the laptop with him the previous year and never reclaimed it. In May, Hunter Biden also filed a lawsuit against the computer repair shop owner, John Paul Mac Isaac, who denies any wrongdoing and asserts that he legally

This item is the property of Hunter Biden," stated Giuliani during a broadcast of "America's Mayor Live" on February 2, 2023, as he presented a laptop. According to the lawsuit, Giuliani further boasted about copying Hunter Biden's data onto his own computer and accessing, analyzing, and manipulating the transferred information. In the preceding year, Brian Della Rocca, attorney for Mac Isaac, handed a supposed "exact copy" of the laptop's data to federal investigators in 2019, which he later provided to CBS News. An independent analysis conducted by two cyber investigators from Computer Forensics Services in Minneapolis found no indications of modification, fabrication, or tampering with the user data. However, reports from various media outlets, including The Washington Post, suggested that certain versions of the hard drive may have been tampered with as they contained data added after April 2019. The filing of this lawsuit represents the latest effort by Hunter Biden's legal team to forcefully counter the allegations made by his Republican adversaries, spanning several months. In February, Hunter Biden's attorney, Abbe Lowell, sent letters to 14 prominent Republican media personalities and former officials who had accused Hunter Biden of corruption or disseminated material purportedly sourced from the laptop. Lowell's letter explicitly outlined the need for these individuals to preserve and retain any records relating to Hunter Biden, as a litigation hold was in effect. obtained the laptop.

They have taken legal action against Mac Isaac, the IRS, a former Trump White House aide, and have issued a cease and desist letter to former President Donald Trump's legal team, alleging defamation. This lawsuit against Giuliani arises amidst escalating legal problems for both Giuliani and Hunter Biden. On August 15, Giuliani, along with former President Donald Trump and 17 others, was indicted by a Fulton County, Georgia grand jury, accused of involvement in a "criminal enterprise" while attempting to overturn the state's 2020 presidential election results. A month later, Hunter Biden faced indictment by a federal grand jury for charges related to his alleged acquisition of a firearm in October 2018, during a period when he was purportedly a drug user. This indictment followed the collapse of a plea agreement in July between the government and Hunter Biden's legal team regarding his taxes and a diversion agreement concerning a firearms charge. Both Giuliani and Hunter Biden have pleaded not guilty in their respective cases, vehemently denying any misconduct. Giuliani and Costello, who had been close friends for almost 50 years, experienced a sudden rupture in their bond when Costello filed a lawsuit against Giuliani on September 19. In the lawsuit, Costello claims that Giuliani owes his law firm nearly $1.4 million in outstanding legal fees.

Giuliani expressed his personal distress while speaking to CBS News regarding Costello'