Draining the Swamp: Trump DOJ Shutters Homan Bribery Investigation

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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.

www.msnbc.com

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.​

 

[NxNW]

What happened to the money?

 

[DaisyDay]

What happened to the money?

If he doesn't do anything for the money, then it becomes a gift?

 

[iluvatar5150]

If he doesn't do anything for the money, then it becomes a gift?

In that case, it’s “only” conspiracy to commit bribery.

 

[Pommer]

In that case, it’s “only” conspiracy to commit bribery.

If it’s LEOs fronting the cash, it might make it problematic, which is how John Delorian got off, “entrapment”, (though he was charged with financing a drug-operation, not bribery).

Still, it’s nice to know who’s (allegedly) crooked.

 

[essentialsaltes]

"Mr Homan never took the $50,000 that you're referring to," Leavitt said at Monday's White House briefing

Let's see how this holds up.

 

[iluvatar5150]

"Mr Homan never took the $50,000 that you're referring to," Leavitt said at Monday's White House briefing

Let's see how this holds up.

If they're telling the truth, releasing the recording ought to make the Biden DOJ look even worse. So let's have it.