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Tom Homan was investigated for accepting $50,000 from undercover FBI agents. Trump's DOJ shut it down. [View all]
https://www.msnbc.com/msnbc/news/tom-homan-cash-contracts-trump-doj-investigation-rcna232568Tom Homan was investigated for accepting $50,000 from undercover FBI agents. Trump's DOJ shut it down.
Sept. 20, 2025, 12:45 PM PDT
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.
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