Former FBI officials charged with lying to Congress about Hunter Biden investigations

Two former senior FBI officials surrendered on arrest warrants Friday after being charged with lying to Congress about their roles in the bureau's Foreign Influence Task Force during the 2020 election and its handling of investigations involving Hunter Biden.

Nikki Cole Floris, 46, and Bradley Benavides, 56, were taken into custody as part of a Justice Department investigation into the since-dissolved task force. Both testified to Congress that the task force was not involved in the FBI's Hunter Biden investigations, FBI Director Kash Patel said Friday, noting that numerous pieces of documentary evidence, contemporaneous communications, and witness accounts contradict their testimony from July and September of 2023, per the criminal complaint.