FBI Agents Charged with Lying About Hunter Biden Probes Accuse DOJ of 'Serious Abuse'
Defense lawyers say the late filing added an obstruction charge and new allegations to sidestep a probable-cause hearing.
- On Tuesday, U.S. Magistrate Zia Faruqui struck an amended criminal complaint filed overnight by the Justice Department against former FBI officials Nikki Floris and Bradley Benavides, scolding prosecutors for the unorthodox, unsigned filing.
- Floris and Benavides, former leaders of the FBI Foreign Influence Task Force, were charged last week with lying to Congress about the Hunter Biden laptop probe; the task force was disbanded in February 2025 by Attorney General Pam Bondi.
- Faruqui questioned the government's tactics, noting that "rare charges" involving facts dating to 2020 are typically handled by grand jury indictment. Defense attorneys called the midnight filing "a serious abuse of the criminal charging process."
- While the judge rejected the new obstruction charge, the original false statements case remains active. "It is not our court's practice," Faruqui said, demanding procedural accountability from the Justice Department.
- This prosecution coincides with midterms just 10 days away, marking another high-profile case where the Justice Department has struggled to secure grand jury indictments in D.C. Critics argue the timing suggests politically motivated conduct.
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A preliminary hearing Tuesday for former FBI agents Nikki Floris and Bradley Benavides, accused of lying to Congress about Hunter Biden’s laptop, quickly became a probable-cause hearing to determine whether the Justice Department had the evidence it claimed in its court complaint against the former FBI agents. The case is over whether two accused ex-FBI agents misled Congress. But the DOJ's own witness said under oath that he didn’t ask what Con…
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Federal Judge Rebukes DOJ Over Last-Minute Obstruction Charge Against Former FBI Officials in Hunter Biden Case
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Pirro’s Biden laptop case teeters as team accused of ‘bad faith’ filing in ‘dead of night’
A former senior FBI official charged with lying to Congress about the Hunter Biden investigations accused U.S. Attorney Jeanine Pirro’s office on Tuesday of a bad-faith, after-midnight filing meant to undercut a court hearing on whether the case should proceed.Lawyers for Nikki Floris asked a federa...
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