Giuliani gives alleged Hunter Biden laptop to New Castle County police

[sabra]

Source: Delaware Online

Rudy Giuliani’s efforts to tarnish Joe Biden’s presidential campaign continued in Delaware when he visited a New Castle County police station Monday to share files from what he said was Hunter Biden’s laptop.

“They’ve got a hard drive, or a laptop, or something to that effect. They try to turn it over to New Castle County PD. New Castle County PD calls us,” said Mat Marshall, a spokesman for Delaware Attorney General Kathy Jennings.

Jennings’ office subsequently gave the device to the FBI because the federal agency reportedly had opened an investigation into the veracity of claims about the origin of the laptop and how its alleged contents were shared with Giuliani’s team, Marshall said.

"As we’ve seen in multiple reports (the FBI) is looking into whether these claims are credible," he said, "In light of their investigation, we’re referring it over to them now.”

Read more: https://www.delawareonline.com/story/news/2020/10/20/giuliani-gives-alleged-hunter-biden-laptop-new-castle-county-police/5999345002/

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[RGinNJ]

1. Somebody's gonna be in trouble.

[Rule of Claw]

2. Ya guy local

blue boys would not touch this with gloves and Toob's loob.

[BadGimp]

40. "Toobs Loob" ? omg I did not need that mental imagery

My minds' eye hurts!

[bullimiami]

3. Wait. I thought the FBI collected the evidence from the blind computer guy?

What’s this supposed to be. A copy of the drive? Rudy may be insane.
Forget jail he needs to be committed.

[sabra]

4. well the supposed story is..

the legally blind Delaware computer repairman gave the drive to the FBI in Dec 2019 and then made a copy which he shared with Bannon in recent weeks, who in turn gave to Rudy...

[bullimiami]

5. You know a "copy" of a hard drive is not evidence. Maybe a lawyer would know that.

[sabra]

6. it's pretty laughable that this was the best they could put together

I mean, even Fox News wasn't willing to touch this one.

[FBaggins]

12. That's not entirely true

Forensic copies of hard drives are used all the time

It’s the fact that it’s passed through the hands of political opponents that’s a problem

[bullimiami]

14. Forensic copies have a chain of custody and forensic computer experts making the copy.

This is a fucking joke.

[FBaggins]

16. Also untrue

Not sure how much of the story is true, but this was supposedly a data recovery job. It has happened many times in the past that the original drive is destroyed in the process... but the copy shows evidence of a crime.

Prosecutors can still use it.

[bullimiami]

20. That's some real hard effort to devils advocate an absolute mess.

[ZZenith]

30. FBaggins might be the best advocate the devil ever had.

[UnderThisLaw]

34. "Not sure how much of the story is true"

I think you do, and that the answer is "None"

[marie999]

38. That is when the police have the original and their forensic lab make a copy

to get as much information as they can save. If someone gives a hard drive that has been partially destroyed to someone else and that person gives it to someone else who gives it to the police nothing on that hard drive or any evidence later found by using anything on that hard drive would be allowed as evidence of a crime. It is called Fruit of the Poisonous Tree since they can not use anything off of the hard drive since there wasn't any chain of custody.

[FBaggins]

39. Not at all. That's a common misconception

The confusion comes from the name "forensic" - which conjures up images of CSI shows.

But that isn't the case. The term refers to any bit-for-bit copy of a physical drive - rather than the file-by-file copy that would occur if you just moved things from one drive to another. They aren't that uncommon and are not limited to law enforcement tools.

One of the early stories said that the mac store created an image of the hard drive on their server and then put that image on several physical hard drives. That type of work could absolutely be used in court - particularly since the FBI reportedly has the original anyway.

As I said... any difference between the drive turned over this week and the one that the FBI has would be evidence against Rudy & Co.

[PSPS]

29. LOL. This was far from a "forensic copy."

[pnwmom]

10. So if they gave the drive to the FBI in Dec. 2019, why are they giving it to the FBI again? n/t

[FBaggins]

13. Different "they"

Sounds like this is Delaware police passing it on to the FBI rather than take it as supposed evidence of a crime. So Rudy doesn’t get what he hoped for.

Rudy had better hope that the version the FBI had had for almost a year is identical to the latest one.

[bullimiami]

15. The crime is Rudy creating false evidence.

[Eyeball_Kid]

26. This is what I was thinking. n/t

[Dark n Stormy Knight]

7. The Crooked Trump Admin & Ass. have become so used to being able to sell any blatantly false,

illogical load of BS to the Trump Death Cult, that they forgot not everyone is so fcking gullible.

[Drunken Irishman]

8. lmao did he think they wouldn't turn it over to the FBI?

[Blue Owl]

9. Did anyone ever dust the laptop to see if Hunter's fingerprints were even on it???

I bet only Rudy's are on it

[liberalmuse]

11. Is Rudy a meth head?

This whole thing kind of reminds me of meth head drama.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

18. He seems to be drunk all the time.

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

24. He's supposedly a heavy drinker

[MarianJack]

17. There's only one thing I can say about Rudy Giuliani...

What an ASSHOLE!

#notmypresident

RESIST

[marble falls]

19. The Chief's eight year old grandson, Norman, is real good with them computers.

[jmowreader]

21. This reminds me of...

...Philip Vannatter, who was lead detective in the OJ Simpson case, when he took a vial of OJ's blood home for the weekend and half of it decided to go to an illegal street drag race or something.

[comradebillyboy]

25. LAPD trying and failing to frame a guilty man.

[LogicFirst]

22. Are there any fingerprints on any of this stuff?

It's already been handled by so many people that the prints and the chain of evidence are destroyed. The Republicans can't do anything right.

[canuckledragger]

23. Ghouliani needs to try and keep his lies straight.

As was stated by another DUer...

...didn't the blind shop owner that totally identified Hunter as the owner of the laptop, hand it over to the FBI in 2019?

Putin must be so disappointed in this idiot's handling of the lying propaganda he provided Ghouliani with.

[Mr. Ected]

27. The mere fact that I am writing something about Hunter Biden in this box right now

Is an indication of wasted time and misdirected focus.

I will now stop typing in a box about Hunter Biden and return to our regularly scheduled programming.

[Grokenstein]

28. "Oh, these aren't MY files, officer! They're Hunter Biden's!!"

"This picture shows your face pretty clearly, Mr. Guiliani."
"Not me! Hunter Biden!"
"No, that's very clearly you screwing a farm animal. What is that, an alpaca?"
"No! No! No! No! God, no! Nooooooo!!"

[no_hypocrisy]

31. Why would Giuliani give a laptop to a police department instead of the DL AG?

Or even a local prosecutor?

[GeorgeGist]

32. His experience as a top Federal prosecutor helped.

[no_hypocrisy]

33. I'm an attorney as well and I wouldn't have wasted my time

on local police. I'd go straight to the Prosecutor's Office. They would do the investigation.

[Ford_Prefect]

35. Oops! Ironic turn of events, yes?

[Sancho]

36. Is Rudy making a citizen's arrest??

[we can do it]

37. Yep, he's crazy.