2026年10月27日 美国东部时间上午9:25 / CBS新闻
联邦检察官于周二对两名前FBI反情报官员提起新的刑事指控，指控他们在针对亨特·拜登的调查中妨碍国会程序，并就其在该局调查中扮演的角色向国会议员撒谎。
这份未宣誓且未署名的替代诉状于周二清晨提交，距被告妮基·弗洛里斯（Nikki Floris）和布拉德利·贝纳维德斯（Bradley Benavides）定于华盛顿特区联邦法院出席初步听证会的时间仅数小时。
在听证会上，弗洛里斯和贝纳维德斯的律师预计会对政府的一名证人进行盘问，以检验诉状的效力，以及司法部是否能够证明存在相信犯罪发生的合理依据。
司法部在距离中期选举如此之近的时间，对两名前FBI高级官员就其三年前的证词提起刑事诉讼的决定，引起了前检察官和其他联邦官员的关注。
重罪案件中的刑事诉状通常仅在更紧急的情况下使用，例如持续威胁公共安全或国家安全。而司法部的准则和规范一般要求检察官在距全国选举如此之近的政治敏感案件中避免采取公开的调查步骤。
检察官在夜间提交未宣誓且未署名的替代诉状，可能会进一步引发对该案件是否出于政治动机的质疑。
弗洛里斯的法律团队在向CBS新闻提供的一份声明中表示：“美国华盛顿特区联邦检察官办公室究竟在搞什么名堂？政府在深夜提交了一份未署名、未宣誓的诉状，试图修正针对弗洛里斯女士的原始指控中存在的问题，同时追加一项与第一项同样站不住脚的新指控。”
“在我们团队合计数十年的司法部任职经历中，我们从未见过甚至从未听说过这种操作，”这些律师表示，“这是因为公开提起刑事指控必须经大陪审团、法官或被告本人授权。而在本案中，政府擅自篡夺了这一权力，绝望地试图剥夺我们的当事人在法庭上对指控提出异议的权利，并在媒体而非法庭上炒作此案。我们已要求在今天的法庭听证会上，对政府针对一名功勋公职人员的这种公然不当行为作出回应。”
指控的核心是弗洛里斯和贝纳维德斯分别于2023年7月19日和2023年9月28日向国会委员会提供的证词。
替代诉状指控被告“明知且故意向委员会提供了关于他们各自对FBI调查亨特·拜登的认知及参与情况的重大虚假陈述，从而以腐败方式妨碍、阻挠并试图影响、干预、阻碍法律的正当实施”。
这份诉状聚焦于他们在证词中所作的陈述，内容涉及他们在外籍影响力特别工作组（FITF）中的角色，以及该工作组一项名为“圆河”（Round River）的反情报行动。该行动的重点是收集针对亨特·拜登等人的诋毁线人报告，并在2020年大选前将这些报告标记为俄罗斯虚假信息。
弗洛里斯于2019年年中至2022年年中担任FITF的副助理局长，而贝纳维德斯则于2019年年中至2020年大选期间担任该工作组的部门主管。
诉状指控被告在证词中作出虚假陈述“目的在于最小化或隐瞒FITF与亨特·拜登调查的关联及相关沟通，并阻碍国会调查”。
DOJ files new charges accusing ex-FBI officials of obstructing, lying to Congress over roles in Hunter Biden probe
October 27, 2026 / 9:25 AM EDT / CBS News
Federal prosecutors filed new criminal charges on Tuesday against two ex-FBI counterintelligence officials, accusing them of obstructing a congressional proceeding and lying to lawmakers about their roles in the bureau’s investigations of Hunter Biden.
The unsigned and unsworn superseding complaint, filed early Tuesday morning, comes just hours before the defendants Nikki Floris and Bradley Benavides are due to appear in federal court in Washington, D.C. for a preliminary hearing.
At that hearing, attorneys for Floris and Benavides are expected to grill one of the government’s witnesses to test the strength of the complaint and whether the Justice Department can demonstrate that there is probable cause to believe a crime was committed.
The decision by the Justice Department tofile a criminal complaint against two former senior FBI officials over testimony they gave three years ago so close to the midterm elections has raised eyebrows among former prosecutors and other federal officials.
Criminal complaints in felony cases are typically reserved for more exigent circumstances, such as ongoing threats to public safety or national security. And Justice Department guidelines and norms have typically urged prosecutors to avoid taking overt investigative steps on politically sensitive cases so close to a national election.
Prosecutors filing an unsworn and unsigned superseding complaint overnight is likely to raise further questions about whether the case is politically motivated.
“What is going on at the D.C. U.S. Attorney’s Office? In the middle of the night, the government filed an unsigned and unsworn complaint attempting to fix the issues with their original charge against Ms. Floris and adding a new charge just as meritless as the first one,” said Floris’ legal team in a statement provided to CBS News.
“In our combined decades of DOJ service, we have never seen or even heard of something like this being filed,” the lawyers said. “That’s because the public lodging of criminal charges must be authorized by the grand jury, a judge, or the defendant herself. Here, the government has taken that power for itself in a desperate attempt to delay our client’s right to challenge the charges in court and litigate this case in the media, rather than the courtroom. We have asked to address this outrageous government conduct against a decorated public servant at today’s court hearing.”
The charges center on testimony that Floris and Benavides gave a congressional committee on July 19, 2023 and September 28, 2023, respectively.
The superseding complaint alleges the defendants “knowingly and willfully provided materially false statements to the Committee about their respective awareness of and
involvement in the FBI’s investigations into Hunter Biden, and thereby corruptly obstructed, and impeded and endeavored to influence, obstruct, and impede the due proper administration of the law.”
The complaint is focused on statements they made in testimony concerning their roles on the Foreign Influence Task Force, and one of its counterintelligence operations known as “Round River,” which was focused on collecting derogatory informant reporting on, among other things, Hunter Biden, to flag the reporting as Russian disinformation” ahead of the 2020 election.
Floris served as the deputy assistant director of the FITF from mid-2019 through mid-2022, while Benavides served as its section chief from mid-2019 through the 2020 election
The complaint alleges that the defendants made false statements in their testimony “for the purpose of minimizing or concealing FITF’s engagement with, and communications about, the Hunter Biden investigations and to impede the Congressional investigation.”
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