Hunter Biden sues Rudy Giuliani, attorney Robert Costello for "hacking" laptop data
Hunter Biden sues Rudy Giuliani, attorney Robert Costello for "hacking" laptop data

Hunter Biden sues Rudy Giuliani, attorney Robert Costello for "hacking" laptop data

I wonder what the actual legal disposition of the laptop is. Was it truly abandoned or was it a "don't return it to the customer; say we're still working on it" thing? How did Rudy get possession of the laptop, and once he logged into it did the laptop did he access anything like email or cloud services (and if so, how is that not illegal access to someone else's data)? Rudy and his lawyer have much to answer for. Dis gon' be guuud.
To be honest, I never believed the laptop was real. The story about it is so fucking bonkers it beggars belief. Epstein's assassination is more plausible than "I had it through the most unlikely of circumstances, honest. But then I lost it. But just believe me, it had really incriminating stuff on it! Even before I tampered with it!"
I feel like there is still something significantly missing from the story. Although, Giuliani does continue to surprise me with stupidity and incompetence. Maybe it really is just that simple.
The laptop was probably real but I suspect the drive was cleared and this is recovered data or that the hard drive was simply copied illegally prior to the repair.
The thing that is so weird to me about this whole thing is that they haven't produced the laptop and Hunter's team haven't asked them to produce the laptop. Why?
The FBI has had the laptop since 2019.
If you can determine who property belongs to, it is not abandoned until the owner manifests a clear intent not to retrieve it. That's the law of personal property.
Also at play here is the law of bailments. One who charges a fee to hold the property of another had created a contact for bailment. If the owner doesn't retrieve it after a fixed term, an involuntary bailment is created, and the bailor must safeguard and hold the property for a reasonable time, after which it may be considered abandoned (if the owner manifests an intent not to retrieve it).
I have not read the complaint but I will be on the lookout.
And here's it is. I will parse it as time permits.
https://www.scribd.com/document/673740262/Hunter-Biden-Complaint-Against-Giuliani
I read somewhere saying some of the contents on the laptop disk were older than the hardware itself. There can be lot's of reasons for this, but don't be surprised if Hunter's legal team has undeniable proof the contents were hacked and stolen from Hunter and loaded on this repair shop owned laptop in an attempt to make a story national news would cover.
The complaint sort of reads that way, as if the data was around for years and at various times Guilliani and others tried to obtain additional, legit data to intersperse into the "laptop data," in order to make the whole of it seem authentic. The lawsuit admits that some of the data is in fact legit.
Rudy has admitted to copying the contents of the laptop to his own hard drive. That's a crime. At most, if you get possession of someone's abandoned laptop, you can wipe the drive and use the factory reset laptop as your own. You don't get to copy the data and use it as you see fit, though.
What crime is it? Is it illegal to pick up someones diary and read it?