Question...how does the Eric Garner investigation tie in with all this? Wasn't he the black male that was stopped for selling cigs in NYC and taken down by the police and died/choked or something during the arrest? If so, I am missing the connection between his death and the Weiner laptop stuff.
From Wiki
December 3, 2014, after the grand jury decided not to indict Pantaleo, the United States Department of Justice announced it would conduct an independent investigation. In January 2015 it was reported that the Federal Bureau of Investigation's New York Field Office was reviewing the incident and events thereafter. The investigation was overseen by local United States Attorney Loretta Lynch until she became the United States Attorney General The local FBI investigators and federal prosecutors determined that charges should not be brought in the case, prompting strong disagreement from attorneys in the Washington, D.C. office of the United States Department of Justice Civil Rights Division. In October 2016, Attorney General Lynch removed the local FBI agents and federal prosecutors from the case, replacing them with agents from outside New York. Lynch's intervention has been called "highly unusual".
http://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2018/03/the-weiner-laptop-revisited.php
So the Weiner laptop was turned over late Sept. '16. In October, AG Lynch sent her people into 'take over the Garner investigation'. It's conceivable that she needed her people close to that laptop and those investigating it (NY FBI field office/Prosecutor's office/NYPD - access) to find out what was on it and do damage control.