A federal judge dismissed a criminal complaint Monday against a pair of former FBI officials accused of lying to Congress during the FBI investigation of Hunter Biden.
\n\nU.S. Magistrate Judge Zia Faruqui of Washington, D.C., found the government failed to show probable cause that Nikki Floris and Bradley Benavides had lied to lawmakers about what they knew about the investigation into Hunter Biden’s laptop. Data from the abandoned computer later led to successful criminal charges against Biden, former President Joe Biden’s son.
\n\nThe case was brought by criminal complaint rather than presented to a federal grand jury in Washington, where jurors have been skeptical of politically tinged cases against purported Trump enemies, most recently rejecting the attempt to indict Cassidy Hutchinson.
\n\nThe complaint alleged that the duo lied about their roles on the Foreign Influence Task Force and “about their roles in the FBI’s Hunter Biden investigations” when they were testifying before the House Judiciary Committee in 2023.
\n\nThe case was dismissed after an FBI agent testified at a preliminary hearing last week that he was concerned that the investigation, which FBI Director Kash Patel directed, would be viewed as “political.” He also acknowledged that a prosecutor on the case…
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