Totally irrelevant to those proceedings.

Frank wrote on Mar 30^th, 2022 at 2:54pm:






https://www.foxnews.com/media/abc-cbs-nbc-ignore-hunter-biden-scandals-259-days

March 30, 2022

Washington (CNN)A Justice Department investigation into Hunter Biden's business activities has gained steam in recent months, with a flurry of witnesses providing testimony to federal investigators and more expected to provide interviews in the coming weeks, according to multiple sources familiar with the matter.

The probe, led by the US Attorney in Wilmington, Delaware, began as early as 2018 and concerns multiple financial and business activities in foreign countries dating to when Biden's father was vice president. Investigators have examined whether Hunter Biden and some of his associates violated money laundering, tax and foreign lobbying laws, as well as firearm and other regulations, multiple sources said.

Investigators have at various times inquired about multiple facets of Hunter Biden's life -- initially focusing on tax issues and money transfers related to business activities in China, according to multiple people familiar with the probe. They're also examining Biden's role while on the board of the Ukrainian energy company Burisma years ago, the sources said.

Ukraine business dealings
Biden's involvement in Ukraine has been a major source of his legal and political issues. He served on the board of Burisma, paid as much as $50,000 a month, from 2014 to 2019, according to a Republican-led Senate report on Biden's business activities released in 2020. That partly overlaps with a period during which his father was vice president and tapped by then-President Barack Obama to handle Ukraine issues. The overlapraised concernsabout a conflict of interest among some Obama administration officials at the time.

CNN last year reported that the FBI took possession of the laptop in 2019 and investigators believed it belonged to Hunter Biden.
Hunter Biden, last year making the publicity rounds for his memoir, dodged questions about the laptop.
"There could be a laptop out there that was stolen from me," he said in a CBS interview. "It could be that I was hacked. It could be that it was the -- that it was Russian intelligence. It could be that it was stolen from me."

It's unclear whether any of the materials provided by Giuliani or the laptop remain part of the investigation.

https://edition.cnn.com/2022/03/30/politics/hunter-biden-federal-investigation-h...

If you leave a laptop with a computer repair shop, when intoxicated and not thinking clearly, then later decide not to collect it because of all the incriminating evidence, then that laptop cannot be considered stolen. Rather, it was abandoned.

wombatwoody wrote on Mar 20^th, 2022 at 11:50pm:


The laptop cannot be considered stolen if this is what happened. After a time the Shop can take possession of the hardware and reconfigure it as they would like. They never have ownership of the private data on the laptop.

If private data is believed to be illegal it can be passed on to the authorities. Any other use of that data is not legal. It seems that every man and his dog is currently holding illegal copies of the hard drive. Anyone with a copy of this may be liable to prosecution. This would include the shop owner Rudy about a dozen media outlets a few politicians and a partridge in a pear tree just for a start. 

So I'm curious. Why does the public have a right to know about a president's son, but not the prez himself?

Thoughts?