7:25 AM PT — Joseph McBride, lawyer for the Tate brothers, is blasting the investigation … telling TMZ it is a “pathetic delay techniques by a gaggle of weak attorneys operating from a combat within the Florida Defamation Case, as a result of they know the proof is overwhelmingly on our aspect.”

He provides … “The SDNY is topic to Washington. Washington will not be concerned. We’re not frightened. Nothing adjustments. Our march to victory continues.”

The Tate brothers’ authorized points within the U.S. are piling up — federal prosecutors are actually investigating them … in response to an legal professional concerned in a civil go well with with them.

Here is the deal … Andrew and his brother Tristan filed a $5 million defamation lawsuit in opposition to an unidentified lady and three different individuals final 12 months in Palm Seashore County, FL — claiming the defandants’ allegations prompted the Romanian officers to criminally cost the Tate bros.

Nicely, an legal professional representing one of many defendants filed authorized docs requesting sure data in that defamation case be saved confidential as a result of an ongoing U.S. Legal professional’s Workplace investigation.

Within the docs, obtained by TMZ, Danielle Pinter says the doc shouldn’t be launched publicly till the “United States federal investigation and/or prosecution by the Division of Justice for the Southern District of New York of Andrew and Tristan Tate has concluded.”

We have reached out to the SDNY for any data on the alleged probe. Ditto for the Tate brothers’ rep.

As we reported … Andrew is coping with 2 different investigations within the U.S. — one in Florida and one other in Beverly Hills. Tristan can also be being checked out within the Florida probe by which Governor DeSantis introduced the brothers weren’t welcome within the state.

TMZ broke the story … Andrew’s ex-girlfriend, Bri Stern, filed a report with police, accusing him of sexually assaulting her final month within the Beverly Hills Resort. She has additionally filed a lawsuit in opposition to him.

The Tate brothers are additionally going through human trafficking prices in Romania, and not too long ago returned to that nation for a court docket date in that case. They haven’t but been convicted, or discovered liable, in any of the authorized issues they’re going through.