Report: ICE Thug Homan Took $50,000 To Steer Contracts

 

If he looks like a thug, talks like a thug, and acts like a thug...:

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. 

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.”

Homan, who served as acting director of Immigration and Customs Enforcement early in Trump’s first term, openly claimed during the 2024 campaign that he would play a prominent role in carrying out Trump’s promised mass deportations...(our emphasis)

Like most, if not all, of the Malignant Fascist's toadies, Homan is an ethically- challenged slug who's view of government is clearly "how can I enrich myself at the public trough?"  That this (alleged) bribe-taker is in charge of rounding up honest, hard- working immigrants is quite appropriately ironic in a nation ruled by a 34- count felon who sends ICE thugs and National Guard into Democratic cities to fight "crime waves" that aren't happening.  We also have the added touch of an apparent coverup by the FBI, in the form of smarmy FBI Director Kash "No Credit" Patel, who by now with his experience in covering up the Epstein files is becoming quite the expert.

BONUS:  It's being reported that Attorney General Bondi and recently- confirmed U.S. Court of Appeals judge Emil Bove also were aware of Homan's "situation" and covered it up.