Update On ICE Thug Homan's $50K Bag O'Dough

 

More reporting on the head of the Malignant Fascist's ICE goon squad  Tom "Bag O'Dough" Homan's sticky fingers:

Tom Homan, the White House border czar, became entangled in an FBI sting last year after an associate of his suggested to undercover FBI agents that Homan could facilitate future government contracts in exchange for big money, according to four sources familiar with the investigation and a government document.

Julian “Jace” Calderas, a former U.S. immigration official who worked under Homan in the Obama administration, allegedly proposed to the agents — who were posing as businessmen — that Homan, in exchange for $1 million, could help them win lucrative federal contracts if Donald Trump became president again, according to an internal Justice Department document describing the investigation reviewed by MSNBC. 

Calderas, co-owner of a detention services and government contracting firm in Texas, first allegedly proposed the scheme in May 2023. He held several subsequent conversations with the agents about his cash-for-contracts proposal, culminating in a Sept. 20, 2024, meeting in Dallas at which agents recorded Homan accepting $50,000 in cash, according to the document and sources.

At that same meeting, the document shows, Calderas accepted $10,000 from the undercover FBI agents. His alleged proposal to undercover FBI agents, which had not been previously reported, led to a full-blown Justice Department investigation of Homan, who at the time was a private consultant helping clients obtain government contracts. 

“I know nothing about this,” Calderas told MSNBC by phone last Monday when asked if he was aware of the criminal investigation and his alleged role in it. “If this is the case, I’m going to need to talk to my lawyer.”

Calderas then ended the call. He did not answer whether he had accepted $10,000 or whether he remembered such a meeting with Homan in Texas. He did not respond to follow-up messages or emails seeking comment from him or his lawyer. MSNBC reached out directly to Calderas and to his company, XFed Global, which he founded with fellow former officials from the Department of Homeland Security, according to the firm’s web site.  [snip]

Calderas’ role in the Homan investigation, which multiple sources described on the condition of anonymity for fear of retaliation, runs counter to the Trump administration’s narrative since MSNBC published its initial exclusive story this month that the FBI had been investigating Homan for possible bribery.

MSNBC also reported that the investigation stalled after Trump became president for a second time in January. His political appointees at the FBI and Justice Department shut down the case last month.

FBI Director Kash Patel and Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche, in an unusual joint statement, said FBI agents and Justice Department prosecutors “found no credible evidence of any criminal wrongdoing” by Homan and that “as a result, the investigation has been closed.”

Last Monday, White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt told reporters from her podium in the briefing room: “Mr. Homan never took the $50,000 that you’re referring to, so you should get your facts straight.”

Yet Homan, during the Fox News interview, did not specifically deny accepting the cash. “I did nothing criminal. I did nothing illegal. It’s hit piece after hit piece after hit piece,” he said.

Sources familiar with the probe told MSNBC that the FBI felt duty-bound to begin investigating Homan after Calderas told agents in an unrelated investigation that Homan was willing to influence which companies would win federal contracts in a second Trump administration in exchange for money... (our emphasis)

Well, now we know who Homan's intermediary was and how the FBI knew Homan was looking for a bribe.  He got it in cash in a Cava paper bag in that FBI sting operation in September 2024 (just as any "consultant" would receive payment!).  We're waiting for more to come out, not that the FBI or DOJ will do anything about it.  In any other regime, he would have been sacked long ago, but in the regime of the convicted felon/ sex abuser /seditionist, he fits right in.  Who better to lead a group of lawless thugs than a lawless thug?

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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.