President Joe Biden’s son, Hunter Biden, has agreed to drop a lawsuit against former New York City mayor Rudy Giuliani and his ex-lawyer Robert Costello. The lawsuit accused them of “total annihilation” of his digital privacy and claimed they manipulated data allegedly taken from his laptop, court records show.
The dismissal states that it has been agreed by and between all three parties and their respective legal teams that the lawsuit against Mr. Giuliani and Mr. Costello will be voluntarily dismissed without prejudice.
However, the dismissal must still be reviewed by U.S. District Judge Jessica Clarke, according to court records.
In court papers, Mr. Biden’s legal team accused the two men of allegedly “hacking into, tampering with, manipulating, copying, disseminating, and generally obsessing over data that they were given that was taken or stolen from Plaintiff’s devices or storage platforms, including what Defendants claim to have obtained from Plaintiff’s alleged ‘laptop’ computer.”
Hunter Biden’s lawyers further alleged that his digital data was “manipulated, altered, and damaged” before it was sent to Mr. Giuliani and Mr. Costello.
The lawsuit initially sought more than $75,000 in damages, as well as attorneys’ fees and other penalties.
Both Mr. Giuliani and Mr. Costello denied any wrongdoing.
The Epoch Times contacted a lawyer for Hunter Biden, and representatives for Mr. Giuliani and Mr. Costello for comment but did not receive a response by publication time.
