The Department of Justice on Friday charged two former top FBI officials with lying to Congress about their involvement in the agency’s investigation into Hunter Biden.

The charges against Nikki Floris and Bradley Benavides, who worked on the FBI’s now-disbanded Foreign Influence Task Force, stem from a brief they gave to members of Congress about the task force’s investigation of Biden, the son of former President Joe Biden.

According to a copy of the criminal complaint obtained by MS NOW, prosecutors accuse Floris and Benavides of providing “materially false information about their awareness of and involvement in the FBI’s investigations into Hunter Biden,” including about the origins of Biden’s laptop, in an attempt to impede the congressional probe.

Floris said she was not involved in discussions about Biden while on the task force, the complaint states, while Benavides said he first learned on Wikipedia that the FBI had obtained Biden’s laptop.

“Lying to Congress by senior FBI officials strikes at the heart of our system,” FBI Director Kash Patel said on X.

Floris’ attorneys slammed the “nonsense charges” against her and accused the DOJ of seeking to “push a false narrative for a shot at political points.”

“Nikki Floris is a patriot. She served our nation as a dedicated FBI intelligence officer for nearly 20 years. Yet today, the DOJ has accused her falsely of a crime on the say-so of politicians, not on the facts,” her attorneys said in a statement. “It’s no coincidence the government is filing these nonsense charges now, years later, on the eve of an election.”

A lawyer for Benavides did not immediately respond to MS NOW’s request for comment.

Biden’s laptop has been the subject of great speculation since The New York Post published, just weeks before the 2020 election, emails from the laptop’s hard drive that purportedly showed proof that Joe Biden was corrupt.

The Post said that it obtained a copy of the hard drive from President Donald Trump’s then-personal attorney, former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani. But there was widespread suspicion that the emails were part of a Russian disinformation operation.

Notably, the charges against Floris and Benavides did not come from an indictment by a grand jury in Washington, where several cases brought by U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia Jeanine Pirro’s office have failed to result in indictments.

Fallon Gallagher contributed to this report.

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Calley Means, a top aide to Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., announced Thursday that he is resigning.

Means, who played a major role in pushing Kennedy’s “Make America Healthy Again” agenda, announced his departure from the Department of Health and Human Services on X, saying he is leaving “with tremendous respect” for President Donald Trump and Kennedy.

“They laid out a vision of combatting the entrenched, dark forces in DC that profit from Americans getting sick,” Means wrote. “More policy and cultural change has happened around these goals in the past 2 years than any time in history — and I know this movement is just getting started.”

I am resigning from the White House with tremendous respect for President Trump and Bobby Kennedy.

They laid out a vision of combatting the entrenched, dark forces in DC that profit from Americans getting sick.

More policy and cultural change has happened around these goals… pic.twitter.com/8vtSjgbmKx

— Calley Means (@calleymeans) October 22, 2026

Means did not say in his statement why he resigned. Neither Means nor the White House immediately responded to MS NOW’s requests for comment.

The Wall Street Journal, citing people familiar with the matter, reported Thursday that Means was unhappy about the White House dragging its feet on some of Kennedy’s policy ideas and blamed other administration officials for allowing special interests to have too much influence. The Journal was the first to report Means’ departure.

Means, a former lobbyist and longtime alternative health and wellness proponent, played a critical role in the Trump-Kennedy alliance during the 2024 election. He was a major driving force behind Kennedy’s MAHA policies in the Trump administration. As senior adviser supporting food and nutrition policy, he had a hand in the new U.S. dietary guidelines that encouraged Americans to eat more protein.

Means has long shared Kennedy’s skepticism toward established health policy. He has denigrated mandatory Covid-19 vaccines and the presence of fluoride in water. He has said that children should drink “more raw milk and less juice,” advice that conflicts with warnings from the Food and Drug Administration of the dangers of raw milk.

A 2024 book he published with his sister, Casey Means — Trump’s second failed choice for U.S. surgeon general — argues that the pharmaceutical and food industries have a stake in keeping people sick.

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