Judge dismisses case against ex-FBI agents accused on lying to Congress in Hunter Biden investigation - NBC News

A federal judge dismissed a criminal complaint Monday against a pair of former FBI officials accused of lying to Congress during the FBI investigation of Hunter Biden. U.S. Magistrate Judge Zia Faruqui of Washington, D.C., found the government failed to show probable cause that Nikki Floris and Bradley Benavides had lied to lawmakers about what they knew about the investigation into Hunter Biden’s laptop. Data from the abandoned computer later led to successful criminal charges against Biden, former President Joe Biden’s son. The case was brought by criminal complaint rather than presented to a federal grand jury in Washington, where jurors have been skeptical of politically tinged cases against purported Trump enemies, most recently rejecting the attempt to indict Cassidy Hutchinson.