Floris's lawyers call both charges meritless and object to the unsigned filing
Nikki FlorisNikki Floris's legal team, in a statement provided to CBS News
Floris's legal team says prosecutors filed an unsigned and unsworn complaint overnight that tries to fix the original charge and adds a new charge just as meritless as the first.
“In the middle of the night, the government filed an unsigned and unsworn complaint attempting to fix the issues with their original charge against Ms. Floris and adding a new charge just as meritless as the first one”
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DOJ accuses Nikki Floris and Bradley Benavides of lying; their lawyers reject the charges
DOJ alleges that former FBI officials Nikki Floris and Bradley Benavides gave knowingly false, material answers in 2023 House Judiciary Committee interviews about their awareness of and involvement in Hunter Biden investigations. Their lawyers reject the accusations. The charges were brought by criminal complaint, not a grand-jury indictment.
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The rejection is procedural. The original false-statement complaint remains for a probable-cause hearing.
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CBS News reports that prosecutors filed an unsworn and unsigned superseding complaint overnight.
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The lawyers say that in their combined decades of Justice Department service they have never seen or heard of such a filing.
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Floris's legal team challenges the merits of the charges. Calling them meritless disputes their legal basis without expressly denying each alleged answer.
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