DOJ Charges Two Former FBI Officials With Lying To Congress About Hunter Biden Investigations
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Original post time: 2026-10-26 T18:32:54Z
DOJ Charges Two Former FBI Officials With Lying To Congress About Hunter Biden Investigations
Two former senior FBI officials surrendered to federal authorities Friday to answer charges that they misled Congress about their work on the bureau’s Hunter Biden investigations.
Nicole “Nikki” Floris, 46, of Alexandria, Virginia, and Bradley Benavides, 56, of Aiken, South Carolina, each face a single count of making false statements to lawmakers, according to a criminal complaint filed Oct. 20 in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia. The pair once led the FBI’s Foreign Influence Task Force, a unit created to shield the 2020 election from foreign meddling that the bureau shut down in February 2025, Time.news reported.
Prosecutors say Benavides told House investigators he first learned about Hunter Biden’s laptop from a Wikipedia entry. He read it while preparing for his 2023 interview, according to the Justice Department. Internal records tell a different story.
The complaint cites emails showing he traded messages about the device with FBI colleagues in the weeks before the election. Floris denied that the task force ever discussed the president’s son, yet communications referenced in the filing place her in a year’s worth of exchanges on the topic.
Two former senior FBI officials, Nikki Cole Floris, 46, of Alexandria, Virginia, and Bradley Benavides, 56, of Aiken, South Carolina, surrendered today on arrest warrants issued after a criminal complaint charged them with lying to Congress about their involvement in the FBI’s investigations into Hunter Biden, announced @USAttyPirro. The charges stem from an ongoing investigation into the since-dissolved FBI Foreign Influence Task Force. Evidence shows that Floris discussed the FBI’s investigations into Hunter Biden routinely for more than a year both within the FITF and with others in the FBI. Contrary to his assertion that he learned of the Hunter Biden laptop from Wikipedia, Benavides regularly discussed the laptop with FBI officials in the leadup to the 2020 election. https://t.co/PqXXBuuZMa
— U.S. Attorney DC (@USAO_DC) October 23, 2026
U.S. Attorney Jeanine Pirro did not soften her language. “Lying to Congress by anyone strikes at the heart of our democratic system but when senior FBI agents lie to Congress believing they are above the law, it’s time to bring the hammer of justice down on them,” she said in the DOJ announcement.
https://dailycaller.com/2026/10/24/doj-charges-former-fbi-officials-lying-congress-hunter-biden/
Originally posted: 2026-10-26T18:32:54Z
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