Rudy Giuliani has one less lawsuit to stress about.
President Joe Biden's 54-year-old son, Hunter Biden, who was convicted of lying about buying a revolver in 2018 while hooked on crack, has agreed to squash a civil lawsuit he brought against former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani and Giuliani's former lawyer Robert Costello, Reuters reported.
Last year, Hunter blamed Giuliani and Costello of being hackers by violating computer fraud and data access laws, alleging they manipulated data from his "devices or storage platforms."
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He claimed they violated his rights by trying to breach his electronic devices.
“Plaintiff has demanded Defendants Giuliani and Costello cease their unlawful activities with respect to Plaintiff’s data and return any data in their possession belonging to Plaintiff, but they have refused to do so,” the complaint read. “Defendants’ statements suggest that their unlawful hacking activities are ongoing today and that, unless stopped, will continue into the future, thereby necessitating this action.”
The scheme, according to the lawsuit, amounted to a “total annihilation” of Hunter Biden's rights, as well as a violation of federal and state computer privacy laws.
Attorneys for all three parties came to a deal filed in Manhattan federal court, under which Biden agreed to drop the lawsuit and each must pay their own legal fees.
Hunter's lawsuit initially sought more than $75,000 in damages as well as reimbursement of his attorneys’ fees and other penalties.
Giuliani has been riddled with legal and money woes.
He filed for bankruptcy last year after he was ordered to pay $148 million to a mother-daughter Georgia election workers that he defamed by falsely accusing them of committing fraud following Trump's 2020 presidential election defeat.