On the eve of the 2020 election, FBI agents discussed an active money-laundering case against Hunter Biden just hours after casting doubt on the authenticity of his incriminating laptop during meetings with social media companies, according to newly redacted chat logs obtained by Sen. Chuck Grassley. 

The FBI’s refusal to confirm the laptop’s existence and instead allow a false narrative to take hold that it was Russian disinformation came on the same day that The Post published bombshell emails from the device revealing Joe Biden’s involvement in his son’s lucrative influence-peddling schemes when he was vice president. 

“Actually what kind of case is the laptop thing?” FBI agent Elvis Chan asks FBI analyst Peter Courtney at 5:28 p.m. on Oct. 14, 2020. 

“Corruption? campaign financing?” 

Courtney replies: “CLOSE HOLD ‐ its a money laundering case on hunter biden.” 

“oh crap,” says Chan. “ok. it ends here.” 

Earlier that day, during an FBI meeting with Twitter (now X) about election interference, a Twitter employee had asked about the authenticity of the laptop in light of the Post story. Courtney began to respond that the laptop was real, when an FBI lawyer interrupted to say that the FBI had “no further comment,” according to later congressional testimony by Laura Dehmlow, then the FBI’s Foreign Influence Task Force section chief. 

“Courtney messed up,” an attorney from the FBI’s Office of the General Counsel messages Chan half an hour after his exchange with Courtney. “We cannot ­comment.” 

The FBI lawyer is believed to have worked under

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