2026年10月23日 美国东部时间上午11:25 / CBS新闻
华盛顿讯——两名前FBI高级官员面临刑事指控，据称他们在2023年就该局涉及亨特·拜登笔记本电脑的调查接受国会作证时作出了虚假陈述。
46岁的妮基·弗洛丽丝（Nikki Floris）是该局华盛顿外勤办公室的前情报分析师负责人，56岁的布拉德利·贝纳维德斯（Bradley Benavides）是FBI反情报司的前副助理主任。两人均于周五在华盛顿特区出庭，当庭收到一份刑事申诉副本，该申诉指控他们每人有一项罪名，即就自己在2020年选举期间外国影响力特遣队中的职责向国会撒谎，具体涉及FBI对亨特·拜登的调查。
随申诉提交的事实声明称，弗洛丽丝在2023年7月19日向国会作出了虚假陈述，而贝纳维德斯则在2023年9月28日作出了虚假陈述。声明指出，他们被指控的虚假陈述涉及“他们对参与FBI调查亨特·拜登一事的知晓情况”。
声明称：“证据进一步确立了合理依据，认为弗洛丽丝和贝纳维德斯作出这些陈述是为了隐瞒[外国影响力特遣队]在亨特·拜登调查中的参与及相关沟通，并阻碍国会调查。”
美国华盛顿特区检察官办公室依据一项已过去三年的指控，通过刑事申诉起诉这两人的决定极为罕见，他们的辩护律师以及主持周五听证并公开案件的治安法官都对这一决定提出了质疑。
贝纳维德斯的律师罗恩·萨弗尔表示：“被指控的行为发生在多年前。政府掌握相关信息已有数年时间。”他在周五于华盛顿特区联邦地区法院举行的听证会上，请求治安法官齐亚·法鲁基尽快安排预审，以审查是否存在充分的合理依据证明某项罪行已发生。
这起带有政治色彩的案件是在中期选举约两周前公开的——这一事实可能会让司法部的资深官员对这起涉及三年多前国会作证的案件的时间安排产生质疑。
法鲁基表示，他认为该案的起诉方式似乎“很奇怪”，并拒绝了检察官将预审推迟两周或更长时间的请求。
他命令双方于周二上午11点再次出庭。
“这是悬在他们头上的达摩克利斯之剑，”他说，“这件事将伴随他们一生。”
雅各布·罗森对本次报道有贡献。
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- 美国国会
- 联邦调查局（FBI）
2 ex-FBI officials charged with lying to Congress about Hunter Biden laptop probe
October 23, 2026 / 11:25 AM EDT / CBS News
Washington— Two former senior FBI officials are facing criminal charges for allegedly making false statements to Congress during testimony in 2023 about the bureau’s investigation involving Hunter Biden’s laptop.
Nikki Floris, 46, a former intelligence analyst in charge in the bureau’s Washington Field Office, and Bradley Benavides, 56, the former deputy assistant director at the FBI’s Counterintelligence Division, each appeared in court on Friday in Washington, D.C. where they were presented with a copy of a criminal complaint charging them with one count each of lying to Congress about their roles on the Foreign Influence Task Force during the 2020 election, specifically the FBI’s Hunter Biden investigations.
A statement of facts filed with the complaint alleges that Floris made false statements on July 19, 2023, to Congress, while Benavides made false statements on Sept. 28, 2023. Their alleged false statements pertained to “their awareness of involvement in the FBI’s investigations into Hunter Biden,” it said.
“The evidence further establishes probable cause to believe that Floris and Benavides made these statements for the purpose of concealing [the Foreign Influence Task Force’s] engagement with and communications about the Hunter Biden investigations and impeding the congressional investigation,” it said.
The decision by the U.S. Attorney’s Office in D.C. to charge the pair in a criminal complaint stemming from three-year-old allegations is highly unusual, and both their defense attorneys and the magistrate judge who presided over Friday’s hearing and unsealing raised questions about the decision.
“The alleged conduct happened years ago. The government has had the information about this for years,” said Ron Safer, an attorney for Benavides. He asked Zia Faruqui, the magistrate judge at Friday’s hearing in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, to immediately schedule a preliminary hearing “as soon as humanly possible” to review whether there was adequate probable cause that a crime was committed.
The politically charged case was also unsealed just about two weeks before the midterm election — a fact that may raise questions by DOJ veterans about the timing of a case involving testimony to Congress that occurred more than three years ago.
Faruqui said he thought the manner in which the case was charged seemed “strange” and he rejected a request by prosecutors to delay the preliminary hearing for two weeks or more.
He ordered the parties to return at 11 a.m. on Tuesday.
“This is the Sword of Damocles hanging over their heads,” he said. “This will follow them for the rest of their lives.”
Jacob Rosen contributed to this report.
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