First son Hunter Biden\u2019s lawyers admitted late Wednesday that the infamous laptop the now-52-year-old abandoned at a Delaware computer repair shop in the throes of his crack cocaine addiction does indeed belong to him.
\nThe revelation came in a petulant letter from Hunter\u2019s lawyers seeking a criminal probe into what they called, attempts to \u201cweaponize\u201d its contents.
\nIn the 14-page letter to Delaware Attorney General Kathy Jennings, Biden attorney Abbe Lowell claimed that repair shop owner John Paul Mac Isaac \u201cunlawfully\u201d accessed Hunter\u2019s laptop data and worked with former President Donald Trump\u2019s personal lawyer Rudy Giuliani to \u201cweaponize\u201d sordid and incriminating contents on it against Joe Biden.
\n\u201cThis failed dirty political trick directly resulted in the exposure, exploitation, and manipulation of Mr. Biden\u2019s private and personal information,\u201d Lowell wrote.
\n\u201cMr. Mac Isaac\u2019s intentional, reckless, and unlawful conduct allowed for hundreds of gigabytes of Mr. Biden\u2019s personal data, without any discretion, to be circulated around the Internet.\u201d
\nMac Isaac took possession of the laptop and hard drive late in 2019 after trying and failing for months to notify Hunter that the device was ready to be picked up. Once the shop owner saw the laptop\u2019s contents \u2014 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 \u2014 he alerted the FBI.
\nThe feds picked up the laptop in December 2019, but not before Mac Isaac made a copy and gave it to Giuliani\u2019s personal lawyer, Robert Costello.
\nGiuliani provided The Post with a copy of the hard drive in October 2020.
\nLowell\u2019s letter singles out Mac Isaac, Giuliani, Costello, former Trump White House adviser Steve Bannon, former Trump White House aide Garrett Ziegler, Bannon associate Jack Maxey, and founder and CEO of cyber analytics firm XRVision and former aide to Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.) Yaacov Apelbaum as parties who gained unauthorized access to the laptop\u2019s contents and disseminated it to the media and lawmakers.
\n\u201cWe 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\u2019s criminal code \u2013 including, but not necessarily limited to, computer-related property offenses \u2026 theft \u2026 possession of stolen property \u2026 and misapplication of another\u2019s property \u2026 Each of these offenses, if violated, has the potential to be a felony, depending on the value of the property in question,\u201d Lowell writes.
\nLetters were also sent by Hunter Biden\u2019s lawyer on Wednesday to the Justice Department\u2019s National Security Division and the IRS.
\n\u201cI think with Congress starting investigations next week, it\u2019s a scare tactic,\u201d Mac Isaac told The Post Wednesday.
\n\u201cThe flak is heaviest when you are over the target!\u201d he added.
\nThe House Oversight Committee will commence hearings next week on Hunter Biden\u2019s alleged influence peddling, and claims he cashed in on ties to his then-vice president father to rake in millions from foreign companies, Rep. James Comer (R-Ky.), the chairman of the panel, told the National Press Club on Monday.
\nZiegler, who worked as aide to Trump trade adviser Peter Navarro and has published the laptop\u2019s data on his Marco Polo USA website, told The Post on Wednesday that the letters were a \u201cdesperate attempt\u201d by the Biden family to get the spotlight away from \u201ctheir crimes.\u201d
\n\u201cWith respect to the letters from the President\u2019s son pleading with his daddy\u2019s agencies to target those who expose his blatant criminality, Kevin Morris did not get a lot of bang for his buck,\u201d Ziegler told The Post, referencing Hunter Biden\u2019s fixer and \u201csugar brother,\u201d Kevin Morris, who allegedly lent the president\u2019s son $2 million to help pay off his overdue federal taxes and has become the architect of Hunter Biden\u2019s legal and media strategy.
\n\u201cYou\u2019d think that Morris would spend $1,400+\/hour on an actual tax attorney when funding Hunter\u2019s legal misadventures, which Abbe Lowell is not,\u201d Ziegler said.
\n\u201cThe letter to the IRS about Marco Polo is full of speculations and basic misunderstandings about the case law surrounding 501(c)(3) organizations. Hopefully, federal and state investigators will see this for what it is: a desperate attempt by Hunter and his family to get the attention off of their crimes,\u201d he added.
\nCostello told The Post that Lowell\u2019s allegations were \u201cridiculous\u201d and a sign of \u201cdesperation.\u201d
\n\u201cThis letter is a ridiculous attempt to intimidate that will not succeed. It is the product of desperation by Hunter Biden because they know judgement day is coming for the Biden family,\u201d he said.
\nCostello points out that Mac Isaac has a \u201csigned work order that gives [him] authorization to examine the hard drive and the property is deemed legally abandoned after 90 days. It is the property of John Paul Mac Isaac.\u201d
\nMac Isaac said it\u2019s no coincidence the letter from Hunter Biden\u2019s lawyer comes just as House Republicans are ready to open probes into the president\u2019s son.
\n\u201cI think with Congress starting investigations next week, it\u2019s a scare tactic,\u201d Mac Isaac told The Post. \u201cThe flak is heaviest when you are over the target!\u201d
\nBeginning on Oct. 14, 2020, The Post published a series of exclusive reports about the laptop\u2019s contents, including emails proving Hunter introduced an executive of Ukrainian natural gas firm Burisma to his father while Joe Biden oversaw the Obama administration\u2019s policy toward the eastern European nation.
\nThe reports were initially dismissed by\u2002former top intelligence officials as the product of \u201cRussian disinformation\u201d \u2014 only to be belatedly confirmed by media outlets including the New York Times, Washington Post and CBS News.
\nHunter Biden himself and his own lawyers have previously tried to sow doubt that the allegedly water-damaged computer abandoned at the Mac Isaac\u2019s shop was Biden\u2019s.
\n\u201cThere could be a laptop out there that was stolen from me,\u201d Hunter Biden told CBS during a 2021 interview. \u201cIt could be that I was hacked. It could be that it was the \u2014 that it was Russian intelligence. It could be that it was stolen from me.\u201d<\/p>\n
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