Hunter Biden had filed a lawsuit against former Trump lawyer and New York City mayor Rudy Giuliani and Giuliani's former attorney, Robert Costello, alleging that the men misused data on his personal laptop.
In October of 2020, Giuliani supplied a hard drive to conservative publication The New York Post, detailing reported corruption exposed in a trove of email correspondences between Hunter Biden, his father, Joe Biden, and a top Ukrainian businessman. Giuliani and other MAGA allies alleged that they gleaned the data from a computer that Hunter Biden had reported to left at a tech repair shop in Wilmington, Delaware. Costello obtained a copy of the data, which Giuliani subsequently released to the public. The lawsuit claims that the pair acted in violation of the federal Computer Fraud and Abuse Act.
