Hunter Biden’s lawyers, in a newly aggressive strategy, sent a series of blistering letters Wednesday to state and federal prosecutors urging criminal investigations into those who accessed and disseminated his personal data — and sent a separate letter threatening Fox News host Tucker Carlson with a defamation lawsuit.
https://apnews.com/article/biden-ste...059f38cde5e94c
https://www.washingtonpost.com/polit...on-of-critics/
There is no guarantee that such an investigation will be initiated, but it could prove interesting if one is started. Hunter is under investigation for federal tax and firearms violations, neither of which have anything to do with the laptop (which likely cannot be used as evidence of anything due to chain of custody/provenance issues (which of course will not stop Republicans from using it to spin all sorts of tales)).
From this article:
The Post asked two security experts to examine 217 gigabytes of data on the drive, and they found nearly 22,000 emails carrying cryptographic signatures that could be verified using technology that would be difficult for even the most sophisticated hackers to fake. The vast majority of the data — and most of the nearly 129,000 emails it contained — could not be verified, the security experts said...
Biden’s lawyers also claim that he has been defamed by Fox News, in a story that Carlson aired in which he falsely said that Biden had paid $50,000 in “rent” to his father, a scheme that he suggested was being used to funnel money from father to son.
But the reality, as deconstructed by The Washington Post Fact Checker, showed that Hunter Biden was actually paying $49,910 every three months for office space in Washington. Some other outlets, including the Daily Caller, later updated and retracted their stories.
Even the Daily Caller, a wingnut rag unencumbered by facts or journalistic ethics, retracts the story that Whell has been harping on. LOL.