Hunter Biden, son of former President Joe Biden, seen in July 2024 in Washington, DC. Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images hide caption

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The Justice Department has charged two former FBI employees with making false statements to Congress in connection with the bureau's investigations into Hunter Biden and his laptop ahead of the 2020 presidential election.

Bradley Benavides and Nikki Floris each face a single criminal count stemming from testimony before lawmakers in 2023. The pair, who held senior positions on the FBI's now defunct Foreign Influence Task Force, both turned themselves in and made their initial court appearance Friday morning in Washington, D.C.

The new prosecution is the latest politically fraught case to be brought by the Justice Department since President Trump returned to the White House.…