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Hunter Biden sues Rudy Giuliani, attorney Robert Costello for "hacking" laptop data
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This is the best summary I could come up with:
He and Costello have said they were provided the hard drive in 2020 by a Delaware computer repair shop owner who claims Hunter Biden dropped off the laptop the year before and never returned to retrieve it.
The lawsuit against Giuliani and Costello claims they used Hunter Biden's username to gain access to his data, making copies and sharing it with allies such as Steve Bannon.
Last year, Brian Della Rocca, a lawyer for Mac Isaac, provided to CBS News what he called an "exact copy" of laptop data given by his client to federal investigators in 2019.
But some versions of the hard drive circulated later appeared to have had data added after April 2019, a sign they could have been tampered with, according to reports in other media outlets, including The Washington Post.
In February, his attorney, Abbe Lowell, sent letters to 14 prominent Republican media personalities and former officials who had accused Hunter Biden of corruption or disseminated material purporting to be from the laptop.
Giuliani was indicted by a Fulton County, Georgia grand jury on Aug. 15, along with former President Donald Trump and 17 others, and accused of taking part in a "criminal enterprise" while trying to overturn the state's 2020 presidential election results.
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