By Kanishka Singh
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. president Joe Biden‘s son, Hunter Bidenagreed to drop a lawsuit against Rudy Giuliani and Giuliani’s former attorney Robert Costello, accusing the couple of violating his privacy over data allegedly taken from his laptop, court documents showed Thursday.
Hunter Biden had accused Giuliani, who served as personal attorney for former President Donald Trump, and Costello of being responsible for the “total destruction” of his digital privacy in the lawsuit filed last September.
Lawyers for all three parties filed an agreement Thursday in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York, finding that Hunter Biden agreed to drop the lawsuit.
U.S. District Judge Jessica Clarke must review the agreement before it becomes final, according to NBC News, which first reported the agreement.
Hunter Biden was convicted by a jury on Tuesday of lying about his illegal drug use to buy a gun, making him the first child of a sitting US president to be convicted of a crime.
Giuliani, a former New York mayor, filed for bankruptcy late last year after being ordered to pay $148 million to two former Georgia election workers he falsely accused of fraud following Trump’s defeat in the 2020 presidential election.
(Reporting by Kanishka Singh in Washington)
