Hunter Biden

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Hunter Biden asks for criminal probe into how his laptop contents ... (CBC.ca)

A lawyer for President Joe Biden's son, Hunter, asked the Justice Department in a letter Wednesday to investigate close allies of former president Donald ...

"Politicians and the news media have used this unlawfully accessed, copied, distributed and manipulated data to distort the truth and cause harm to Mr. Hunter Biden never consented to having any of his personal information accessed or shared in that manner, his lawyer says. Mac Isaac declined to comment when reached by The Associated Press on Wednesday evening. The letter cites passages from Mac Isaac's book, in which he admitted reviewing private and sensitive material from Biden's laptop, including a file titled "income.pdf." It was swiftly seized on by Trump as a campaign issue during the presidential election that year. The request for a criminal inquiry, which comes as Hunter Biden faces a tax evasion investigation by the Justice Department, does not mean federal prosecutors will open a probe or take any other action.

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Hunter Biden threatens legal action over laptop allegations (BBC News)

The president's son wants those he accuses of trafficking in stolen material from his laptop to be punished.

He said he reviewed the laptop files shortly after receiving it and discovered information about Mr Biden's personal finances. Mr Costello, a lawyer for both Mr Giuliani and Steve Bannon, told CBS News the letters to the Justice Department and Delaware were a "frivolous legal complaint trying to intimidate". And Republicans have vowed to investigate him and the family business now they have control of the House of Representatives.

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Hunter Biden lawyers urge probes of Trump allies, demand Tucker ... (USA TODAY)

Hunter Biden's attorneys' want investigations into Trump allies, including Rudy Giuliani. They also demanded Tucker Carlson retract reporting.

a Biden attempt to intimidate honest, ordinary citizen through the use of a high-priced lawyer and political consultants," Della Rocca said in written response. "For now, I am simply pointing out these letters seem to be...a way to redirect attention away from his own activities, and... "This failed dirty political trick directly resulted in the exposure, exploitation, and manipulation of Mr. Biden’s personal data, wherever they claim to have gotten it," he said. Carlson implied was essentially a money laundering scheme" and separate suggestions that Biden had unauthorized access to classified documents while at the president's residence. Biden’s personal computer data against his father."

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Laptop email suggests Hunter Biden read newspapers, not ... (The Washington Post)

Republicans claim the president's son wrote a 2014 email with inside information. But the facts he cited could be found in news reports at the time.

[available on the company’s website](https://web.archive.org/web/20140421083338/http:/burisma.com/production). The Fact Checker requested that Cruz and Johnson provide specific examples in the email that they believed to be classified information. [The Atlantic, April 8, 2014:](https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2014/04/russia-is-crushing-ukraines-hopes-for-energy-independence/360281/) “Three-fifths of the 50 billion cubic meters of natural gas Ukraine uses each year is imported from Russia, with the rest domestically produced. But if the Uks shut down the pipeline they also shut down 60% of their energy supply and put a strangle on EU supplies from RU which the EU will never accept (b/c they are p------).” [The Washington Post, April 5, 2014:](https://washpost.arcpublishing.com/ellipsis/The%20new%20Ukrainian%20government%20is%20working%20on%20changes%20to%20the%20constitution%20that%20are%20expected%20to%20result%20in%20decentralization,%20with%20executives%20elected%20locally.%20Volodymyr%20Hroisman,%20a%20deputy%20prime%20minister%20in%20charge%20of%20regional%20development,%20said%20last%20week%20that%20amendments%20would%20be%20made%20to%20the%20constitution%20this%20year,%20clearing%20the%20way%20for%20local%20elections%20next%20year.) “The new Ukrainian government is working on changes to the constitution that are expected to result in decentralization, with executives elected locally. [The Atlantic, April 8, 2014](https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2014/04/russia-is-crushing-ukraines-hopes-for-energy-independence/360281/): “Unfortunately for Ukraine, the Crimean peninsula was crucial to the country’s energy-diversification plans. This email is not among those verified, but its author wrote that he would travel to Houston “tmrw.” A [2020 letter](https://www.grassley.senate.gov/news/news-releases/johnson-grassley-use-secret-service-records-verify-content-alleged-hunter-biden) by GOP senators said that Secret Service records confirmed that Hunter Biden traveled to Houston the day the email was sent. Kerry [told the Senate Foreign Relations Committee](https://lasvegassun.com/news/2014/apr/08/kerry-warns-russia-tough-new-sanctions/) that the U.S. [a potential conflict of interest](https://www.finance.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/HSGAC%20-%20Finance%20Joint%20Report%202020.09.23.pdf#page=13) that undermined the administration’s efforts to stem corruption in the country. He is credible with the west and by all accounts a true reformer (by Uk standards).” [in one interview](https://www.listennotes.com/podcasts/wi-morning-news/wi-morning-news-012623-guest-vVOU8Lq6cKs/), Johnson said a reference in the email to potential new U.S. The email is dated April 13, 2014, a month before Hunter Biden was named to the board of the Ukrainian gas company Burisma.

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Hunter Biden demands criminal probe into Trump allies with access ... (Yahoo Canada Finance)

Hunter Biden's lawyers are targeting Donald Trump's allies and Fox News in perhaps their most notable parries against conservative attacks.

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Hunter Biden Attorney Issues Legal Threat Over Tucker Carlson ... (Deadline)

An attorney representing Hunter Biden has fired off a legal threat to Tucker Carlson and Fox News, demanding a retraction for segments suggesting that Biden ...

Another report in Breitbart was updated to note that the quarterly payments were made to House of Sweden. And by the way, what classified documents keep appearing in homes that Hunter Biden lived in?” The latter was a reference to the discovering of documents with classified markings found at Joe Biden’s Wilmington home. And I assume that the documents were in the garage at that time.” In his segment, Carlson claimed that the payment was for “housing costs.” He said, “So how did a disgraced drug addict with no job skills make enough money to make a $50,000 a month rent payment? Carlson, with reckless indifference and actual malice, reported the so-called ‘rent’ story as fact to support his premise that Mr. In the application, which was first posted online by an anonymous Twitter user and was claimed to have come from Hunter Biden’s laptop hard drive, there was a reference to a rent payment that totaled nearly $50,000 per month.

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Rudy Giuliani blasts 'unethical' conduct by Hunter Biden lawyer after ... (Daily Mail)

Former Donald Trump lawyer Rudy Giuliani hit back after Hunter Biden's legal team began pushing back over the laptop saga, seeking probes of people who ...

After keeping distance from the laptop saga since it was first revealed weeks before the 2020 elections, Hunter's legal team, which is taking a more aggressive posture, does not appear satisfied with that fine print. Giuliani also tweeted an image of the 2019 repair order that shop owner Mac Isaac has said a person resembling Hunter Biden signed when dropping off broken machines. 'This is a completely – I don’t know how to describe it. Referencing the letter to Delaware AG Kathy Jennings, Giuliani said: 'Unless the AG burns it immediately and refers the lawyers for ethical discipline, then he’s [stet] just a play thing of the Biden’s,' he said. 'The complaint that we should be investigated is an attempt to get yet one more illegal investigation started by a Democrat inclined public officials,' he fumed, with a reference to the Democratic-driven first impeachment effort over Trump's effort to get a Biden probe. [Donald Trump](/news/donald_trump/index.html) lawyer [Rudy Giuliani](/news/rudy-giuliani/index.html) is responding to [Hunter Biden](/news/hunter-biden/index.html)'s new legal strategy of seeking to get probes and retractions of information linked to Hunter's infamous laptop – and accused a top lawyer heading the effort of 'unethical' conduct.

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Hunter Biden lawyers urge probes of Trump allies, demand Tucker ... (Yahoo News)

Hunter Biden's attorneys' want investigations into Trump allies, including Rudy Giuliani. They also demanded Tucker Carlson retract reporting.

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The Hunter Biden Counteroffensive Begins (New York Magazine)

In a series of letters on Wednesday, Biden's lead attorney wrote to the Justice Department to encourage its national security division to investigate those ...

[wrote](https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/23595947-letter-to-ns-aag-re-request-for-investigation) to the Justice Department to encourage its national security division to investigate those responsible for disseminating the personal data on Biden’s [laptop](https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/hunter-biden-laptop-investigation.html). But with Republicans in control of the House and [eager to investigate his finances](https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2023/01/house-gop-launches-hunter-biden-investigation-asap.html), that plan is changing. The attempt by the president’s son to convince an independent Justice Department to go after the people that exposed his personal life is unlikely to succeed given that the DOJ has had years to consider the matter on its own. Biden’s lawyers wrote to the IRS to contest Marco Polo’s nonprofit status, claiming that the group’s political activity violates its tax-exempt status. Other attorneys for Biden are trying more direct approaches as well, writing to Tucker Carlson and Fox News to demand a retraction of what they call false statements or they’ll face a defamation suit. In a letter to the Delaware attorney general and the DOJ, attorney [Abbe Lowell](https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2018/08/trump-is-making-his-legal-troubles-even-worse.html) (who represented Jared Kushner during the Russia investigation) asked the authorities to investigate Trump allies such as Rudy Giuliani and Steve Bannon, who helped circulate the laptop’s contents in conservative media.

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It Looks Like Hunter Biden Isn't Going to Sit This One Out (Vanity Fair)

President Joe Biden's son has reportedly dispatched his lawyers against Tucker Carlson, Steve Bannon, and others, as he faces a congressional investigation ...

(In fact, according to The Post, Hunter Biden spent $49,910 every three months on office space in Washington.) [opened an investigation](https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/house-republicans-open-investigation-into-biden-family) into the president’s family. [claimed](https://www.thedailybeast.com/steve-bannon-boasted-on-dutch-tv-weeks-ago-that-he-had-hunter-bidens-hard-drive) he was in possession of Biden’s hard drive in October 2020, and Rudy Giuliani, who, shortly before the 2020 election, provided the New York Post with files that appeared to have stemmed from a laptop Biden dropped off at a Delaware repair shop. Mac Isaac gaining access to the content of those files in April 2019 or at any other time.” [Coming to (and Leaving) Netflix](https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2023/01/new-on-netflix-the-best-movies-and-tv-shows-coming-and-leaving-in-february-2023?itm_content=footer-recirc&itm_campaign=more-great-stories-011823)in February Biden’s most personal information,” Lowell wrote, per The Post, adding that Mac Isaac had no reason “to review the contents of any [financial] files” to repair Biden’s laptop. “It is not a common thing for a private person and his counsel to seek someone else being investigated, but the actions and motives here require it.” Conservative media personalities and Republican lawmakers have been obsessing over Biden’s laptop ever since materials from it first appeared in the New York Post more than two years ago. The owner of the computer repair store, John Paul Mac Isaac, who has become a minor conservative celebrity for purportedly serving as the catalyst to the scandal, was also mentioned in the letters. Another of Biden’s attorneys, Abbe Lowell, has also sent letters to the Delaware attorney general and the Justice Department calling for investigations into those responsible for extracting, disseminating, and promoting material from Biden’s laptop, the contents of which were leaked to the press in 2020. He is not going to sit quietly by as questionable characters continue to violate his rights and media organizations peddling in lies try to defame him.” Hunter Biden appears to have launched his first real counteroffensive against Fox News and Trumpworld.

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Read: Hunter Biden lawyers ask Justice Department for investigation (Axios)

Read the letters his attorneys sent the DOJ, IRS, Delaware attorney general and Fox News' Tucker Carlson.

Read: [Department of Justice's](https://www.scribd.com/document/623256381/2023-02-01-Letter-to-NS-AAG-Re-Request-for-Investigation) National Security Division requests a probe into "individuals for whom there is considerable reason to believe violated various federal laws in accessing, copying, manipulating, and/or disseminating Mr.

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Hunter Biden's lawyer says letters don't mean laptop is his (NewsNation Now)

Lawyers for the president's son sent letters to law enforcement requesting investigations into those who spread the Hunter Biden laptop story.

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Hunter Biden begs friends, dad Joe's employees to get him off the ... (New York Post)

Two of the prosecutors Hunter Biden's lawyer has called on to probe the first son's infamous laptop actually have ties to President Joe Biden and his ...

“Institutions are only as good as the American public’s confidence in them, and Mr. Olsen would further undermine public confidence in America’s national security institutions.” [Last you told me you were out in LA](https://nypost.com/2021/06/22/did-joe-inadvertently-pay-for-hunter-bidens-wild-night-at-chateau-marmont/). “Joe is one of the kindest and most genuine people I’ve ever known … I’m choosing Joe because nobody understands more what it means to heal, and right now that’s what America needs.” Olsen’s prior public service, he no longer has the credibility necessary to fill this important role given the partisan nature of his post-government writings,” Sen.

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