U.S. Magistrate Judge Zia Faruqui struck from the record an amended criminal complaint filed by the Justice Department in the middle of the night against Nikki Floris and Bradley Benavides, two former FBI officials. The document added an obstruction charge to the allegations concerning their false statements to Congress but lacked a judge’s probable-cause approval. The original false-statements case nevertheless remained intact as the preliminary hearing proceeded. The former officials, who led an FBI task force monitoring foreign influence operations, are accused of minimizing in 2023 their knowledge of the laptop attributed to Hunter Biden; their lawyers have denied wrongdoing.
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