NEW: Attorneys for Hunter Biden have filed counterclaims in response to a defamation suit brought by the computer repairman who they say triggered the laptop controversy.
March 17, 2023, 9:12 AMIn this Nov. 21, 2022, file photo, Hunter Biden walks along the South Lawn at the White House in Washington, D.C.
"Contrary to Mac Isaac's Repair Authorization form, Delaware law provides that tangible personal property is deemed abandoned" when the rightful owner has failed to "assert or declare property rights to the property for a period of 1 year," lawyers for Biden wrote in legal documents. Friday's counterclaim is the latest turn in an increasingly offensive legal tack from the younger Biden, who until recently had largely avoided public confrontations about his business dealings.
According to accounts given by Mac Isaac and his attorney, on April 12, 2019, Hunter Biden arrived at Mac Isaac's computer repair shop with three damaged devices and asked if the data could be recovered. Days later, Mac Isaac said, he asked Hunter Biden to return to the shop to retrieve the devices and pay an $85 service fee. Mac Isaac has said he never heard back from Hunter Biden, and the invoice was never paid.
In their countersuit, attorneys for Hunter Biden disputed Mac Isaac's claim to have acted both legally and responsibly with data found on the laptop and hard drive. Lawyers for Hunter Biden wrote that "Mac Isaac intended and knew, or clearly should have known, that people to whom he provided the data that he believed to belong to Mr. Biden would use it against then-candidate Joseph Biden and to assist then-President Trump."
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