Abbe Lowell, attorney for Hunter Biden, is sternly requesting that DE’s AG open a criminal investigation into what the letter refers to as the shop owner’s ‘unlawfully’ accessing the water-damaged laptop’s hard drive
In a recently submitted 14-page letter, the junior Biden’s lawyer strongly urged Delaware’s Attorney General, Kathy Jennings, to begin investigating what the letter referred to as the ‘unlawful’ accessing of the laptop’s hard drive by the owner of the computer repair shop where Hunter Biden abandoned his now infamous laptop, and also trying to “weaponize” its contents at the expense of his client’s privacy.
But what’s perhaps most interesting about the story is that the letter marks the first time either Hunter or his attorneys have definitively admitted not only that the laptop is real, but confirming that it did indeed belong to Hunter Biden.
This is in contrast to their previous proclamations that the laptop was either completely fictional, or the product of some Russian disinformation campaign – this despite the plethora of photographs, emails, and other personal information contained on the laptop which are all centered around the first son.
The owner of the Delaware repair shop, John Paul Mac Isaac, tried to reach Hunter Biden, unsuccessfully, for many months before taking ownership of the device.
Photo byJohn Paul Mac Isaac from Twitter
The 14-page letter also claimed that repair shop owner Mac Isaac not only “unlawfully” accessed Hunter’s laptop data, but that he also worked in concert with former President Donald Trump’s personal lawyer Rudy Giuliani to “weaponize” sordid and incriminating contents on it against Joe Biden.
In a direct quote from the letter, Lowell wrote:
“This failed dirty political trick directly resulted in the exposure, exploitation, and manipulation of Mr. Biden’s private and personal information.”
“Mr. Mac Isaac’s intentional, reckless, and unlawful conduct allowed for hundreds of gigabytes of Mr. Biden’s personal data, without any discretion, to be circulated around the Internet.”
In truth, Mac Isaac took possession of the laptop and hard drive in late 2019 after months of unsuccessfully trying to notify Hunter that the device was ready to be picked up. After communicating with Mac Isaac, The Veracity Report learned that the standard repair contract which all repair customers sign when they leave a computer for service at the shop contains a clause that states:
“…that any equipment left at the shop for repair will be considered abandoned after 90 days,”
Once Mac Isaac took ownership of the laptop and reviewed the contents of the hard drive – contents that included emails that extensively detailed influence-peddling involving then-Vice President Joe Biden as well as a smattering of photographs and videos of the younger Biden smoking crack and having sex with prostitutes and his work subordinates — he did what we would hope most Americans would do, he alerted the FBI.
The feebies took possession of the laptop in December 2019, but not before Mac Isaac made a copy of what was then legally his property, and gave it to Rudy Giuliani’s personal lawyer, Robert Costello.
Giuliani, in turn, provided a copy of the hard drive to The New York Post in October 2020.
Lowell’s letter singles out Mac Isaac, Giuliani, and Costello, as well as 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 – all as parties who gained unauthorized access to the laptop’s contents and disseminated it to the media and to law enforcement.
The letter goes on:
“We 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’s criminal code – including, but not necessarily limited to, computer-related property offenses … theft … possession of stolen property … and misapplication of another’s property … Each of these offenses, if violated, has the potential to be a felony, depending on the value of the property in question,” Lowell wrote as justification for his request for an investigation.
Hunter Biden’s lawyer also sent similar Letters on Wednesday to the Justice Department’s National Security Division and the IRS.
When The New York Post asked shop owner John Paul Mac Isaac about the incident in an interview on Wednesday, Mac Isaac had this to say:
“I think with Congress starting investigations next week, it’s a scare tactic. The flak is heaviest when you are over the target!”
It’s true. As Mac Isaac mentioned, The House Oversight Committee will begin its highly anticipated hearings next week on Hunter Biden’s alleged influence peddling. The numerous claims center around allegations that the junior Biden cashed in on his relationship with 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.
Ziegler, who worked as an aide to Donald Trump’s trade adviser, Peter Navarro, and has published the laptop’s data on his website, “Marco Polo USA,” in a similar interview on Wednesday, told The New York Post that the letters were really only a “desperate attempt” by the Biden family to get the spotlight away from “their crimes.”
In that interview, Ziegler had this to say:
“With respect to the letters from the President’s son pleading with his daddy’s agencies to target those who expose his blatant criminality, Kevin Morris did not get a lot of bang for his buck.”
Ziegler’s comment is referencing Hunter Biden’s fixer and “sugar brother,” Kevin Morris, who allegedly lent the president’s son $2 million to help pay off his overdue federal taxes and has become the architect of Hunter Biden’s legal and media strategy.
Ziegler went on:
“You’d think that Morris would spend $1,400+/hour on an actual tax attorney when funding Hunter’s legal misadventures, which Abbe Lowell is not.”
“The 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,” Ziegler added.
For his part, Costello said that Lowell’s allegations were both “ridiculous” and nothing more than a sign of “desperation.”
In his statement, Costello said:
“This letter is a ridiculous attempt to intimidate that will not succeed. It is the product of desperation by Hunter Biden because they know judgment day is coming for the Biden family.”
The laptop included emails detailing influence-peddling involving then-Vice President Joe Biden.
Costello points out that:
“Mac Isaac has a signed 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.”
Of course, The New York Post, having received a copy of the laptop’s hard drive from team Giuliani in October of 2020, began publishing a tremendous string of photos, videos, and emails, with the first one being released publicly on Oct. 14, 2020.
Within the next several weeks, the newspaper published a rapid-fire series of reports that brought the contents of the laptop into both the national and global spotlights. Those reports included emails proving that Hunter Biden introduced an executive of the Ukrainian natural gas firm called Burisma to his father while the then-vice president was actively overseeing the Obama administration’s policy toward the eastern European country.
The reports were initially dismissed by former top intelligence officials as the product of “Russian disinformation.” What’s more, those disseminations of a Russian disinformation campaign were so widespread and intricate that they included dark, behind-the-scenes coercion by agents within the FBI to actually control the flow of information that was being talked about and shared on at least two of America’s largest social media platforms – Facebook and Twitter.
So deep in fact were these censorship efforts by the FBI that the CEOs of both of those social media platforms recently went public with the information on how strenuously the DOJ pushed them to suppress, and in some cases completely halt, the dissemination of information they felt was damaging to the Democratic Party.
Despite these reports, which all hinge on the authenticity of the device itself, and the information discovered on the device’s hard drive being original, it is only very recently those other news agencies, have reluctantly begun to concede that the laptop is indeed real, that it did originally belong to Hunter Biden, and that the information found on its hard drive is 100% authentic and wasn’t artificially augmented or fictionalized in any way.
To date, the media outlets who have conceded the truth and have endorsed the accuracy and authenticity of the stories originally published by The New York Post back in October 2020 include the New York Times, Washington Post, and CBS News.
Up until this letter from Biden’s attorney on Wednesday, Hunter Biden himself, and his various lawyers, had continuously tried to breed public doubt that the allegedly water-damaged computer was Biden’s and that much if not all of the information being disseminated from it was either augmented or completely fictional.
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