跟进：两名前FBI官员在华盛顿联邦法院首次出庭 不予羁押、下周二再开庭 辩方称指控源于政客说法
华盛顿——被控向国会作虚假陈述的两名前联邦调查局（FBI）高级官员 Nikki Floris 与 Bradley Benavides，10月23日上午在华盛顿的美国哥伦比亚特区联邦地区法院首次出庭。据 CNN 报道，治安法官 Zia Faruqui 在庭上表示，这批指控与「亨特·拜登的笔记本电脑及围绕它的指控」有关。两人获准在候审期间不予羁押，下一次庭审定于下周二上午举行。
当日早些时候，司法部华盛顿特区联邦检察官 Jeanine Pirro 宣布两人已向当局投案。诉状指控两人各犯一项在立法部门管辖事项中作虚假陈述罪（《美国法典》第18篇第1001(a)(2)条）：检方称，两人2023年就已解散的 FBI 外国影响力特别工作组在亨特·拜登调查中的角色向众议院司法委员会作证时，作了与证据不符的陈述。联邦调查局 FBI 局长 Kash Patel 表示，其中一人曾私下自称在2020年大选期间「运行一个影子政府」。
Floris 的辩护律师在出庭后发表声明称，她是「凭政客的一面之词、而非事实」被错误指控，并称她是一名「爱国者」。声明称，政府在选举前夕、事隔多年提出这些指控「绝非巧合」，其用意是推动虚假叙事以捞取政治分数。据路透社报道，Benavides 的律师未立即回应置评请求。
这批指控提出时，距11月3日中期选举投票日不到两周。前总统乔·拜登之子亨特·拜登此前被联邦陪审团裁定税务与枪支罪名成立，其后于2024年感恩节前后获其父赦免。
刑事诉状中的指控尚属指控，两名被告在依法被证明有罪之前推定无罪。
关联：两名前FBI官员被控向国会作虚假陈述：涉亨特·拜登笔记本电脑调查 华盛顿联邦检察官宣布起诉
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Follow-Up: Two Former FBI Officials Make First Appearance in Federal Court in Washington, Released Pending Trial as Defense Cites Politicians' Claims
WASHINGTON — Two former senior FBI officials charged with lying to Congress, Nikki Floris and Bradley Benavides, made their first appearance on Friday morning in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia in Washington. According to CNN, Magistrate Judge Zia Faruqui said in court that the charges are related to "Hunter Biden's laptop and allegations around that." The two were released without detention while they await trial, and a hearing is scheduled for Tuesday morning.
Earlier in the day, U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia Jeanine Pirro announced that the two had surrendered to authorities. The complaint charges each with one count of making false statements in a matter within the jurisdiction of the legislative branch, under 18 U.S.C. 1001(a)(2): prosecutors say that in 2023 testimony to the House Judiciary Committee about the role of the since-dissolved FBI Foreign Influence Task Force in the Hunter Biden investigations, the two made statements contradicted by the evidence. FBI Director Kash Patel said one of them had privately claimed to be "running a shadow government" during the 2020 election.
In a statement after the appearance, Floris's defense attorneys said she is being falsely accused "on the say-so of politicians, not on the facts," and called her "a patriot." The statement said it was no coincidence that the government was filing the charges years later, on the eve of an election, to push a false narrative for political points. A lawyer for Benavides could not immediately be reached for comment, according to Reuters.
The charges come less than two weeks before the November 3 midterm elections. Hunter Biden, son of former President Joe Biden, was convicted by a federal jury on tax and gun charges and was later pardoned by his father around Thanksgiving 2024.
The charges in a criminal complaint are merely allegations, and both defendants are presumed innocent unless and until proven guilty beyond a reasonable doubt.
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图片来源：图：位于华盛顿的 E. Barrett Prettyman 美国法院大楼，美国哥伦比亚特区联邦地区法院所在地，两名被告在此首次出庭。照片：Tony Webster，CC BY 2.0，经 Wikimedia Commons。 / The E. Barrett Prettyman U.S. Courthouse in Washington, home to the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, where the two defendants made their first appearance. Photo: Tony Webster, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
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