Top Trump official 'investigated for accepting $50,000 from undercover FBI agents': report
Tom Homan, U.S. President Donald Trump's border czar, was reportedly investigated for accepting $50,000 from undercover FBI agents.
Carol Leonnig and Ken Dilanian of MSNBC over the weekend reported that Homan was under investigation and that, "The FBI and Justice officials closed the investigation, which a Justice Department appointee had called a 'deep state' probe in early 2025."
"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 outlet reported. "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."
According to the report, "It’s unclear what reasons FBI and Justice Department officials gave for shutting down the investigation" into the man who Trump has leaned on to accomplish his immigration raid goals.
"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 report states.