U.S. Magistrate Judge Zia Faruqui threw out the case against two former FBI officials accused of lying about the Hunter Biden investigations, calling it “weaponization” of federal law enforcement.
Faruqui ruled at a court hearing Monday that prosecutors had not shown enough evidence that the two officials, Nikki Floris and Bradley Benavides, knowingly made false statements, Reuters reported.
He also accused the Justice Department of bringing a political prosecution ahead of Tuesday’s midterm elections, according to Reuters.
“What has transpired here cannot be described as anything other than weaponization” of federal law enforcement, Faruqui said.
Floris and Benavides were accused of misleading Congress in 2023 about what they knew of efforts to investigate a laptop that the Justice Department says Hunter Biden, former President Joe Biden’s son, left at a Delaware repair shop in 2019, the Associated Press reported.
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