New charges filed against ex-FBI officials

Federal prosecutors filed criminal charges on Tuesday against Nikki Floris and Bradley Benavides, accusing them of obstructing a congressional proceeding and lying to lawmakers about their roles in the FBI's investigations of Hunter Biden.

Timing raises questions about political motivation

The Justice Department filed an unsigned and unsworn superseding complaint early Tuesday morning, hours before a preliminary hearing. The timing so close to midterm elections has raised eyebrows among former prosecutors and federal officials.

Defense team challenges filing procedures

Floris's legal team said in a statement: "In our combined decades of DOJ service, we have never seen or even heard of something like this being filed."

“In our combined decades of DOJ service, we have never seen or even heard of something like this being filed.”

Charges center on congressional testimony

The complaint alleges Floris and Benavides gave materially false statements to a congressional committee on July nineteen, twenty twenty-three and September twenty-eight, twenty twenty-three about their roles on the Foreign Influence Task Force and its…

Officials accused of concealing Hunter Biden probe

Prosecutors allege the defendants made false statements to minimize or conceal the Foreign Influence Task Force's engagement with and communications about Hunter Biden investigations and to impede the congressional investigation into those matters.