Tom Homan was investigated for accepting $50,000 from undercover FBI agents. Trump's DOJ shut it down. [View all]
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Tom Homan was investigated for accepting $50,000 from undercover FBI agents. Trump's DOJ shut it down.
The FBI and Justice officials closed the investigation, which a Justice Department appointee had called a "deep state" probe in early 2025.
---------- White House border czar Tom Homan walks toward the West Wing of the White House, on May 29. Andrew Harnik / Getty Images file
Sept. 20, 2025, 3:45 PM EDT
By Carol Leonnig and Ken Dilanian
In an undercover operation last year, the FBI recorded Tom Homan, now the White House border czar, accepting $50,000 in cash after indicating he could help the agents -- who were posing as business executives -- win government contracts in a second Trump administration, according to multiple people familiar with the probe and internal documents reviewed by MSNBC.
The FBI and the Justice Department planned to wait to see whether Homan would deliver on his alleged promise once he became the nation's top immigration official. But the case indefinitely stalled soon after Donald Trump became president again in January, according to six sources familiar with the matter. In recent weeks, Trump appointees officially closed the investigation, after FBI Director Kash Patel requested a status update on the case, two of the people said.
It's unclear what reasons FBI and Justice Department officials gave for shutting down the investigation. But a Trump Justice Department appointee called the case a "deep state" probe in early 2025 and no further investigative steps were taken, the sources say.
** On Sept. 20, 2024, with hidden cameras recording the scene at a meeting spot in Texas, Homan accepted $50,000 in bills, according to the internal case summary and sources. **
The federal investigation was launched in western Texas in the summer of 2024 after a subject in a separate investigation claimed Homan was soliciting payments in exchange for awarding contracts should Trump win the presidential election, according to an internal Justice Department summary of the probe reviewed by MSNBC and people familiar with the case. The U.S. Attorney's office in the Western District of Texas, working with the FBI, asked the Justice Department's Public Integrity Section to join its ongoing probe "into the Border Czar and former Acting Director of Immigration and Customs Enforcement Tom Homan and others based on evidence of payment from FBI undercover agents in exchange for facilitating future contracts related to border enforcement."
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Read more: https://www.msnbc.com/msnbc/news/tom-homan-cash-contracts-trump-doj-investigation-rcna232568
Hat tip, Kevin Kruse
According to Tom Homan, for the crime Tom Homan allegedly committed, Tom Homan should have his citizenship stripped away and be renditioned to a foreign prison without receiving due process in the courts.
— Kevin M. Kruse (@kevinmkruse.bsky.social) 2025-09-20T20:10:16.635Z
Sorry, Tom Homan, but those are Tom Homan's rules.
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According to Tom Homan, for the crime Tom Homan allegedly committed, Tom Homan should have his citizenship stripped away and be renditioned to a foreign prison without receiving due process in the courts.
Sorry, Tom Homan, but those are Tom Homan's rules.
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EXCLUSIVE: Tom Homan was investigated for accepting $50,000 from undercover FBI agents. Trump's DOJ shut it down.
Tom Homan was investigated for accepting $50,000 from undercover FBI agents. Trump's DOJ shut it down.
The FBI and Justice officials closed the investigation, which a Justice Department appointee had called a "deep state" probe in early 2025.
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September 20, 2025 at 4:10 PM
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