Hunter Biden has dropped a lawsuit he filed against Rudy Giuliani and the former New York City mayor’s former lawyer for manipulating data found on his infamous laptop.
Biden’s lawyer, Abe Lowell, filed a motion to dismiss the lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York on Thursday.
The lawyers asked the court to dismiss the lawsuit against Giuliani and Robert Costello “without prejudice, with each party paying its own attorneys’ fees, costs and expenses.”
Attorneys for all three parties agreed to the settlement, according to court documents.
The lawsuit alleges that Mr. Giuliani, 80, and Mr. Costello violated the federal Computer Fraud and Abuse Act by hacking and manipulating data on an abandoned laptop in order to “completely destroy” the “digital privacy” of their disgraced eldest son.
The lawsuit, filed last September, sought more than $75,000 in damages, plus attorneys’ fees and other penalties.
“This dismissal, combined with the conviction of Hunter Biden based on evidence from the laptop, is an exoneration for Giuliani and Costello, and for all of the media that covered the laptop story in 2020 and suffered systematic censorship by social media, the mainstream left media and others engaged in election interference,” Giuliani’s lawyer, Joe Sibley, said in a statement to The Washington Post.
Sibley argued that Biden’s legal team agreed to dismiss the lawsuit because “they know the substance of the case is flawed.”
Lawyers for Messrs. Lowell and Costello did not respond to The Washington Post’s requests for comment.
The motion to dismiss the case must be approved by U.S. District Judge Jessica Clark before it can be finalized.
Biden, 54, was convicted Tuesday of three felony counts related to lying about drug use when purchasing a Colt Cobra handgun from a Delaware gun shop in October 2018.
The government used data obtained from the infamous laptop, never received from a computer repair store in Wilmington, Delaware, in April 2019, to prove its case that the eldest son was addicted to crack cocaine when he bought the gun.
John Paul Mac Isaac, a computer repair store owner, turned over Biden’s hard drive to the FBI after finding evidence of illegal financial activity, drug use and the use of prostitutes.
Mac Isaac copied the hard drive before turning it over to the federal government and gave it to Costello in August 2020.
Giuliani, who was a client of Costello at the time, provided a copy of the hard drive to The Washington Post in October 2020, leading to the publication of a series of bombshell exclusive stories detailing the Biden family’s overseas business interests and President Biden’s possible role in making money for his relatives.
