Attorney-client-privilege is unlikely to shield Rudy Giuliani and Robert Costello as they defend the federal lawsuit filed against them Tuesday by Hunter Biden, observers said.

“The attorney-client privilege is sacrosanct, but it is not absolute,” lawyer Robert Gottlieb of Robert C. Gottlieb & Associates said after reading the complaint. “That privilege could be pierced based on a theory of the crime-fraud exception.”

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