https://www.reuters.com/world/us/trump-aide-homan-accepted-50000-bribery-sting-operation-sources-say-2025-09-21/
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sheetsadam1 — 6 months ago(September 22, 2025 02:49 PM)
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/trump-aide-homan-accepted-50000-bribery-sting-operation-sources-say-2025-09-21/
President Donald Trump's border czar Tom Homan accepted a $50,000 bag of cash from an undercover FBI agent last year in a since-closed U.S. Justice Department bribery investigation, two sources familiar with the matter said on Sunday.
In the alleged scheme, Homan promised immigration-related government contracts when he joined the Trump administration in exchange for the money, the sources said, speaking anonymously to discuss nonpublic investigations.
FBI Director Kash Patel ordered the investigation closed over the summer, one of the sources said. Homan could not be reached for comment.
“This matter originated under the previous administration and was subjected to a full review by FBI agents and Justice Department prosecutors. They found no credible evidence of any criminal wrongdoing," Patel and Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche said in a statement on Sunday.
"The Department’s resources must remain focused on real threats to the American people, not baseless investigations. As a result, the investigation has been closed.”
The probe into Homan started around August 2024 near the end of President Joe Biden's administration and stemmed from a separate national security investigation, one of the sources told Reuters.
In that unrelated probe, the target repeatedly brought up Homan, saying he was collecting bribes in exchange for future government contracts, the two sources told Reuters.
An undercover sting operation was set up, and Homan was caught on a recording accepting a $50,000 bribe in a bag from the restaurant chain Cava, the sources said.
A grand jury probe into Homan in the Western District of Texas was still in its early stages when Trump returned to the White House in January, the sources said.
Emil Bove, who was acting deputy attorney general and is now a federal judge, was briefed on the case in February, one of the sources said. In that exchange, he expressed displeasure with the probe and said it was an example of a "deep state" operation, referring to the idea that unelected officials secretly control the government.
The statement from Patel and Blanche said the probe was a "blatantly political investigation" and "yet another example of how the Biden Department of Justice was using its resources to target President Trump’s allies."
Homan was an official at U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement under President Barack Obama and its acting director during Trump's first term.
During Trump's four years out of power, Homan ran a consulting business to help companies obtain immigration-related government contracts.
In the recorded sting operation, Homan claimed he would keep the bribe money in a trust until he had completed his service in the Trump administration, one of the sources said.
Not long after the meeting when he criticized the Homan probe, Bove separately ordered corruption charges against New York City Mayor Eric Adams to be dropped, prompting career prosecutors to resign.
The Justice Department has also largely dismantled the unit that prosecutes corruption cases
, which took part in the Homan probe.
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azn_2 — 6 months ago(September 22, 2025 02:50 PM)
Ch!nk chong meltdown.
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BOOMSHIT — 6 months ago(September 22, 2025 03:59 PM)
Homan was an official at U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement under President Barack Obama
hired by Obama, ignored by Biden and rooted out by Trump
just too bad it took so long
By 2014, under the Obama administration, Homan began to argue that separating children from their caregivers would be an effective means of discouraging illegal border crossings.
In 2015, Obama awarded him a Presidential Rank Award as a Distinguished Executive. The Washington Post article at the time stated, "Thomas Homan deports people. And he's really good at it.
why is the left so hypocritical?
jestergooning