Posted on 09/14/2023 9:23:35 AM PDT by nickcarraway
Hunter Biden filed a lawsuit this week against a former Trump White House aide over his alleged role in the laptop data scandal, which the first son’s attorneys blasted as a “sustained, unhinged and obsessed campaign” to advance an “extremist” agenda.
The 14-page complaint filed in California federal court Wednesday accuses Garrett Ziegler, a one-time aide to President Donald Trump’s trade adviser, Peter Navarro, of violating the state’s computer fraud and data laws by accessing “tens of thousands of emails, thousands of photos, and dozens of videos and recordings” that belonged to Hunter, according to the suit viewed by The Post.
Ziegler and 10 other unnamed defendants ”spent countless hours accessing, tampering with, manipulating, altering, copying and damaging computer data that they do not own,” the filing claims. Some of the data — which included Hunter Biden’s financial and bank records and even credit card details — was stored on the troubled first son’s iPhone and backed up via iCloud, meaning it was accessed by “circumventing technical or code-based barriers that were specifically designed and intended to prevent such access,” according to the complaint, which was first reported by ABC News.
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Your Honor, I was simply reporting and discussing “Russian disinformation” so there is no basis whatsoever for this lawsuit.
They do have chutzpah.
Suing to get back the bloody hatchet that you decapitated the little girl with.
Democrats know that the best defense is a good offense, which is what we are seeing here. It also gives them the opportunity to put out doubt about the facts presented on the laptop, something their medial allies will run with. A shame the Republicans haven’t learned this.
The drive was mirrored. All the meta data should be intact and it is probably on DVD storage.
If that is so. The original mirror should not lose data history.
“Hunter Biden Indicted on Gun Charges
Move deepens the president’s son’s legal jeopardy and sets the stage for a politically fraught prosecution”
https://www.wsj.com/politics/hunter-biden-indicted-on-gun-charges-5d6bdcaf?mod=hp_lead_pos1
Excellent point.
Not surprising at all, what with the corrupt DoINJ, FBI, CIA, NSA etc etc etc on his side, and working feverishly and overtly to damage anyone and everyone they can.
Key words in the motion to dismiss?
Abandoned laptop.
5.56mm
The owner of the computer store made a backup before touching it.
Everything (in the unmodified state) will be there.
Thank you, I had forgotten that the ghost of the drive was to protect data if his recovery failed.
HE is NUTS.
HUNTER LEFT THE LAPTOP-——AND NEVER RETRIEVED IT...
He is so coked out he cannot realize his own dereliction of his own duties.
What if he had a “Storage Locker” that he failed to pay rent on?????
THEN WE WOULD BE WATCHING PEOPLE BID ON THE LOCKER ON TV & WATCH THEM GO THRU THE CONTENTS !!!!!
When you ARE ON COCAINE-—YOUR MEMORY GOES AWRY
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In order to be convicted of unauthorized computer access in violation of California Penal Code Section 502, they must be able to prove, beyond a reasonable doubt, the following applicable elements of the crime:
You knowingly accessed without permission and then altered, took, copied, damaged, deleted, destroyed any data on computer or computer system.
You acted with intent to devise or execute a scheme to defraud, deceive, or extort.
You acted unlawfully in order to control or obtain money, property, or data.
You knowingly without permission used or caused to be used computer services.
You knowingly without permission disrupted or caused the disruption of computer services to an authorized user of a computer network.
You knowingly assisted in providing means of accessing a computer network in violation of this law.
You knowingly introduced a computer contaminant into a computer, computer system, or computer network.
You knowingly used the Internet domain name of another individual or corporation to send electronic mail messages that caused damage to a computer or computer network.
As you can see above in the elements of the crime, Penal Code Section 502 covers a broad range on unlawful computer access activity. The main key words above the prosecutor has to prove is the word “knowingly and without permission.”
These critical elements can be challenged by an experienced criminal defense lawyer at our law firm.
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Jim Jordan is the problem. Get it in Gear Jj.
Exactly!!!
Good Show.
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