Hunter Biden files counterclaims against computer repairman and associates over laptop
Brady Knox
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Hunter Biden has filed a counterclaim against the Delaware-based computer repairman who handled his laptop.
The lawsuit, targeting John Paul Mac Isaac and a few of those he shared the laptop data with, alleges that the repairman improperly obtained and disseminated the first son’s private information without his consent. It was filed in response to an October 2019 defamation lawsuit from Isaac and others and represents Biden’s greatest push yet against those who obtained the information found in his laptop that he left at a computer repair shop in April 2019. The laptop became a hot-button issue just before the 2020 election.
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The suit calls for six counts to be raised against Isaac and several others whom he shared the data with; invasion of privacy by intrusion, invasion of privacy by publication of private facts/matters, conspiracy to invade privacy by intrusion, conspiracy to invade privacy by publication of private facts/matters, aiding and abetting an invasion of privacy by intrusion, and aiding and abetting intrusion of privacy by publication of private facts/matters. Hunter Biden is seeking a trial by jury.
Central to the countersuit’s argument is a citation of Delaware law, allegedly saying that abandoned property cannot be considered another person’s property until a period of one year, rather than the 90 days Isaac alleged. It also says that the law holds that a procedure must be carried out through the courts to become a proper owner.
“Contrary to Mac Isaac’s Repair Authorization form, Delaware law provides that tangible personal property is deemed abandoned when “the rightful owner has left in the care or custody of another person and has failed to maintain, pay for the storage of, exercise dominion or control over, and has failed to otherwise assert or declare the ownership rights to the property for a period of 1 year,” the document says.
“The procedure to obtain lawful title to abandoned personal property requires the person in possession of the property to file a petition in a court of competent jurisdiction,” it says. “Other obligations must then also be satisfied before obtaining lawful title, such as the court sending notice to the owner and the petitioner posting notice in five or more public places, and advertising the petition in a newspaper.”
The document also points to Isaac’s book, American Injustice: My Battle to Expose the Truth, as admitting that he accessed Biden’s information long before the allotted 90-day period.
It also claims Isaac acted improperly by accessing the data on the laptop, claiming that the form Biden signed only turns over his equipment and not data.
“Moreover, even if the Repair Authorization form were enforceable under Delaware law, by its own terms, it provides abandonment of only any ‘equipment’ that is left behind at the Mac Shop, and not the data on or embedded within any such equipment,” it reads. “In fact, the Repair Authorization form states that the Mac Shop will make every effort to ‘secure your data…’ Customers who sign Mac Isaac’s Repair Authorization form do not, therefore, waive any rights under Delaware law for the data that any equipment might contain. Reputable computer companies and repair people routinely delete personal data contained on devices that are exchanged, left behind, or abandoned. They do not open, copy, and then provide that data to others, as Mac Isaac did here.”
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The suit also appears to make a moral argument against Isaac, aside from just a strictly legal one; it cites the personal nature of the photos and videos on the laptop, which include Biden doing drugs and having sexual relations, as well as noting that one of the people he shared the data with, “even opened files to look at pictures of Beau Biden’s final days.”
The data in the laptop was found to be 100% authentic, according to Konstantinos “Gus” Dimitrelos, commissioned by the Washington Examiner, a former Secret Service agent and cyber forensics expert. Hunter Biden has gone on to admit that the laptop left at the shop belonged to him.