前联邦调查局（FBI）官员的律师周二猛烈抨击华盛顿联邦检察官，指责其在法庭听证会前几小时，向该前官员的案件中增加了一项“未签名且未宣誓”的刑事指控。
Lawyers for an ex-FBI official charged with lying to Congress lashed out at federal prosecutors in Washington for adding an "unsigned and unsworn" criminal count to her case just hours before a court hearing.
“华盛顿特区联邦检察官办公室到底在搞什么？”前官员妮基·弗洛里斯的辩护律师周二上午在一份声明中说。“在我们共同数十年的司法部服务生涯中，从未见过甚至听说过会提交这种东西。”由珍妮娜·皮罗领导的该办公室在一夜之间提交了一份“取代性刑事诉状”，指控弗洛里斯和共同被告布拉德利·贝纳维德斯（另一名前FBI官员）犯有妨碍和企图妨碍国会程序罪。
"What is going on at the D.C. U.S. Attorney's Office?" counsel for the former official, Nikki Floris, said in a statement Tuesday morning. "In our combined decades of DOJ service, we have never seen or even heard of something like this being filed." Overnight, that office, led by Jeanine Pirro, submitted a "superseding criminal complaint" charging Floris and co-defendant Bradley Benavides, another ex-FBI official, with obstruction and attempted obstruction of a congressional proceeding.
这项新罪名是在司法部四天前公布向国会作虚假陈述指控的基础上增加的。
The new count comes on top of the charge of making false statements to Congress that the Department of Justice unveiled four days earlier.
弗洛里斯和贝纳维德斯最初被指控在2023年向众议院司法委员会作证时撒谎，内容涉及他们对时任总统乔·拜登之子亨特·拜登调查的参与情况。
Floris and Benavides were initially accused of lying when they testified to the House Judiciary Committee in 2023 about their involvement in investigations of then-President Joe Biden 's son, Hunter Biden.
对这两名前特工的指控是在大选日前不久提出的，这打破了司法部长期以来的指导原则，并加剧了选举观察人士和民主党人对特朗普政府可能如何试图干预中期选举的担忧。
The charges against the former agents were filed shortly before Election Day, breaking with longstanding DOJ guidance and fueling more concerns from election observers and Democrats about how the Trump administration may try to interfere in the midterms.
针对弗洛里斯和贝纳维德斯的案件是通过一份密封的刑事诉状，在哥伦比亚特区联邦地区法院提起的。这与刑事起诉书不同，后者要求检察官必须从大陪审团获得批准。
The case against Floris and Benavides was filed via a sealed criminal complaint in U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia. That's distinct from a criminal indictment, which a prosecutor must obtain from a grand jury.
刑事诉状不需要大陪审团批准，因此可以更快提交，通常用于在检察官需要迅速行动的情况下确立合理根据，以获取逮捕令。但针对弗洛里斯和贝纳维德斯案件的相关行为发生在三年多前。
criminal complaint which does not require a grand jury's approval and can therefore be filed much faster, is often used to establish probable cause to get an arrest warrant in situations where prosecutors need to move quickly But the relevant conduct in the case against Floris and Benavides took place more than three years prior.
“半夜里，政府提交了一份未签名、未宣誓的起诉书，试图修正其针对弗洛里斯女士的原始指控中的问题，并增加了一项与第一项同样毫无根据的新指控，”这位前联邦调查局官员的律师在周二的声明中写道。
"In the middle of the night, the government filed an unsigned and unsworn complaint attempting to fix the issues with their original charge against Ms. Floris and adding a new charge just as meritless as the first one," the former FBI official's lawyers wrote in Tuesday's statement.
“在我们合计数十年的司法部服务生涯中，从未见过甚至听说过提交过这种东西。这是因为刑事指控的公开提出必须经大陪审团、法官或被告本人授权，”他们写道。
"In our combined decades of DOJ service, we have never seen or even heard of something like this being filed. That's because the public lodging of criminal charges must be authorized by the grand jury, a judge, or the defendant herself," they wrote.
“在这里，政府自行夺取了这一权力，绝望地试图拖延我们的当事人在法庭上对指控提出异议的权利，并企图在媒体而非法庭上审理此案，”他们断言。
"Here, the government has taken that power for itself in a desperate attempt to delay our client's right to challenge the charges in court and litigate this case in the media, rather than the courtroom," they asserted.
案件卷宗显示，弗洛里斯和贝纳维德斯于周五被捕并已获释。初步聆讯定于周二美国东部时间上午11点在联邦治安法官扎伊亚·法鲁基面前举行。
Floris and Benavides were arrested Friday and have been released, their case docket shows. A preliminary hearing was set for Tuesday at 11 a.m. ET before Magistrate Judge Zia Faruqui.
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在该聆讯之前，律师们提交了一份动议，请求法院驳回取代性刑事起诉书，理由是其在法律上存在缺陷且系恶意提交。
Ahead of that hearing, the attorneys filed a motion asking the court to strike the superseding criminal complaint, arguing it is legally deficient and was filed in bad faith.
文书称：“这代表了对刑事指控程序的严重滥用，令人担忧地无视了管辖刑事诉讼启动的司法保障，并系蓄意试图逃避司法审查，使政府的指控免于在预定的初步聆讯中接受对抗性检验。”
"It represents a serious abuse of the criminal charging process, a troubling disregard for the judicial safeguards governing the initiation of criminal proceedings, and a calculated effort to evade judicial scrutiny and shield the government's allegations from adversarial testing at the scheduled preliminary hearing," the filing reads.
“这彰显了对我国刑事司法体系一项基本原则的公然漠视：无罪推定。这也反映出对检察官职责的令人不安的漠视，即不得加重对被告人的谴责。
"It demonstrates a flagrant disregard for a fundamental principle of our nation's criminal justice system: the presumption of innocence. And it reflects a troubling disregard for the prosecutors' obligations not to heighten the condemnation of the accused." An attorney for Benavides and Pirro's office did not immediately respond to CNBC's requests for comment.
本台记者对贝纳维德斯和皮罗办公室的律师提出置评请求，对方未立即回应。这是正在发展中的报道，请稍后查看更新。”
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