跟进：联邦法官驳回两名前FBI官员涉亨特·拜登案诉状 认定检方未达可能事由门槛

华盛顿联邦法院治安法官 Zia Faruqui 11月2日驳回针对两名前联邦调查局（FBI）官员 Nikki Floris 与 Bradley Benavides 的刑事诉状，认定检方未能证明二人作虚假陈述的「可能事由」（probable cause）。本站10月24日曾报道，二人被指2023年在国会作证时就亨特·拜登调查作虚假陈述而被起诉。

裁决在为期两天的可能事由听证之后以口头形式宣布，历时约一小时。Faruqui 表示，被指控的多项陈述并非虚假，其余陈述则缺乏故意或动机的证据；出庭作证的一名 FBI 探员承认，没有找到二人向国会说谎的动机证据。Faruqui 说：「我对本案发生的一切深感不安。」他表示，此案「只能被描述为（司法部的）武器化」，并指出相关调查在总统特朗普7月一次讲话点名 Floris 的次日立案，起诉又在临近中期选举时被仓促推进。

司法部随即发表声明表示不同意治安法官的决定，称该决定「似乎在暗示，高级政府官员向国会作重大虚假陈述也可以免于追责」，并表示正在评估所有选项。由于本案以刑事诉状而非大陪审团起诉书立案，检方仍可寻求大陪审团起诉，也可向该法院首席法官 James Boasberg 提出上诉。

Floris 现年46岁，曾任 FBI 外国影响工作组负责人；Benavides 现年56岁，曾任该工作组科长。检方称，二人2023年在众议院司法委员会的调查中作证时，淡化了自己对时任总统之子亨特·拜登调查及亨特遗留在电脑维修店的笔记本电脑一事的知情程度，二人各被控一项虚假陈述罪。二人否认有不当行为。该诉状此前于10月20日由另一名治安法官 Matthew Sharbaugh 签署。（来源：哥伦比亚特区联邦地区法院）

Follow-Up: Federal Judge Dismisses Complaint Against Two Former FBI Officials in Hunter Biden Case, Finding No Probable Cause

U.S. Magistrate Judge Zia Faruqui in Washington on November 2 dismissed the criminal complaint against two former FBI officials, Nikki Floris and Bradley Benavides, finding that prosecutors had failed to establish probable cause that the pair made false statements. GSM reported on October 24 that the two had been charged over their 2023 congressional testimony concerning the Hunter Biden investigation.

The ruling was delivered orally from the bench after a two-day probable-cause hearing and lasted about an hour. Faruqui said several of the alleged statements were not false and that the others lacked evidence of intent or motive; an FBI agent who testified acknowledged finding no evidence of a motive for the two to lie to Congress. "I am deeply troubled by what has happened in this case," Faruqui said, adding that the case "cannot be described as anything other than weaponization." He noted that the investigation was opened the day after President Trump referenced Floris in a July speech and that the charges were rushed close to the midterm elections.

The Justice Department said in a statement that it disagrees with the magistrate's decision, which it said "remarkably appears to suggest that high-ranking government officials are immune from accountability for making materially false statements to Congress," and that it is evaluating all options. Because the case was brought by criminal complaint rather than a grand jury indictment, prosecutors could still seek a grand jury indictment or appeal to the court's chief judge, James Boasberg.

Floris, 46, formerly headed the FBI's Foreign Influence Task Force; Benavides, 56, was a section chief in the task force. Prosecutors alleged the two minimized their knowledge of the investigation into Hunter Biden, the son of the then-president, and of a laptop he left at a computer repair shop, when they testified in a 2023 House Judiciary Committee investigation; each was charged with one count of making a false statement. Both deny wrongdoing. The complaint had been signed on October 20 by another magistrate judge, Matthew Sharbaugh. (Source: U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia)

来源：哥伦比亚特区联邦地区法院

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图片来源：图：位于华盛顿的联邦调查局总部 J. Edgar Hoover 大楼。ajay_suresh 摄，CC BY 2.0，经 Wikimedia Commons。 / Photo: FBI headquarters, the J. Edgar Hoover Building in Washington. Photo by ajay_suresh, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

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