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‘Border czar’ Homan recorded taking bribe, Trump DOJ closed case, reports say
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President Donald Trump’s designated “border czar” Tom Homan was recorded by the FBI taking a $50,000 bribe last year, but Trump’s Justice Department closed the case, according to multiple reports.
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Tom Homan, now the president’s border czar, was recorded last year accepting a bag with $50,000 in cash by undercover FBI agents in an investigation the Trump Justice Department later closed, The New York Times reported Saturday.
The Trump DOJ shut down a bribery probe of Tom Homans, now the White House border czar, which recorded him allegedly accepting $50K during a 2024 sting.
President Donald Trump’s designated “border czar” Tom Homan was recorded by the FBI taking a $50,000 bribe last year, but Trump’s Justice Department closed the case, according to multiple reports.
Tom Homan was caught on tape accepting a bag filled with $50,000 in cash from an undercover FBI agent in Texas in September 2024, according to people familiar with the matter and a government document.
The Justice Department has shut down an investigation into allegations Trump border czar Tom Homan accepted a bag containing $50,000 in cash last September.
The Biden-era DOJ reportedly caught Homan accepting $50,000 from undercover agents—but the Trump administration called the probe “baseless” and shut it down.
