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DOJ’s Hunter Biden laptop prosecution hits a snag after a federal judge questions department’s unorthodox filing
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A federal judge on Tuesday scolded the Justice Department for its unorthodox handling of a criminal case against two former FBI officials accused of making false statements to Congress about their knowledge of a laptop the Justice Department says belonged to Hunter Biden, the son of former President Joe Biden.
Key facts
- Chuck Grassley and Ron Johnson in August 2020 as the lawmakers were doing their own investigation into Hunter Biden’s work in Ukraine
- The case accuses the former officials of falsely playing down their knowledge about a laptop the Justice Department says Hunter Biden abandoned at a computer repair shop in 2019
- The task force was disbanded in February 2025 by then-Attorney General Pam Bondi
- U.S. Magistrate Zia Faruqui struck from the record an amended criminal complaint filed in the middle of the night by the Justice Department that added a new obstruction charge against the two former
Summary
U.S. Magistrate Zia Faruqui struck from the record an amended criminal complaint filed in the middle of the night by the Justice Department that added a new obstruction charge against the two former officials, Nikki Floris and Bradley Benavides. “It is not our court’s practice, and I think it is appropriately not our practice, that unsigned complaints are filed on the docket,” Faruqui said. He later added: “The reporter want to know why the United States is reticent or averse to putting before a probable cause determination that you must believe is righteous.