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one FBI investigates border czar Tom Homan who hired President Donald Trump Leading senior agency officials to bypass typical security clearance procedures, a new report says.
Homan’s identity as the target of a bribery investigation by FBI agents – who allegedly documented him receiving $50,000 in cash from agents posing as businessmen – was passed to Emil Bove, who was appointed acting deputy attorney general days later in early January 2025. MS NOW Survey Revealed Tuesday.
Boff was Trump’s personal attorney and served as a senior liaison between the administration and the transition before joining the Justice Department.
Boff and other senior members of the Trump transition team worked to ensure that the FBI’s investigation would not go awry with Homan’s background check process when information was received in early January, days before the inauguration and weeks after it typically comes up in the background check process. The delay was due to Trump’s team not submitting the names of Homan and other new officials to the FBI to begin the background check process until December 2024, a month later than usual, MS NOW reported.
Homan was eventually hired by the administration as the White House border czar, formally known as the “White House Executive Deputy Director for Enforcement and Removal Operations.” It’s unclear how Homan obtained a security clearance after FBI agents determined he wouldn’t pass a background check, MS NOW reported.
independent The Departments of Justice and Homeland Security have been asked to comment on Homan’s security clearance process.
White House officials claim MS NOW reports Trying to unearth an ancient story. When news of the investigation first broke, Homan declined to answer questions about his hiring process. September.
“This is a blatantly political investigation that found no evidence of illegal activity and is yet another example of how the Biden Justice Department is using its resources to target allies of President Trump instead of investigating the real criminals and the millions of illegal immigrants flooding into our country,” White House spokesperson Abigail Jackson told the news outlet.
“Tom Homan is a career law enforcement officer and lifelong public servant who has done an outstanding job for President Trump and the country.”
Homan’s alleged involvement in the FBI investigation amounted to clear bribery. MS NOW (formerly MSNBC) reported in September that Homan was filmed accepting $50,000 in a kava wine bag from undercover FBI agents who pretended to be seeking immigration enforcement-related contracts during Trump’s second administration.
The video has not yet been released publicly. The White House and Homan deny the existence of the situation and say the exchange never occurred.
The MS NOW report also noted that Homan’s investigation – Starting in early 2024 under the Biden administration – was shut down by the Justice Department a few months later this summer After Trump took office, Boff and FBI Director Kash Patel reportedly “expressed displeasure” that the case was continuing.
Immigration enforcement is a key component of Trump’s 2024 campaign and a focus for several senior officials in his second administration. Including Hohmann and senior White House aide Stephen Miller.
Immigration and Customs Enforcement raids have swept the country as officials aim to deport at least 1 million undocumented immigrants in the first year of Trump’s second term.
A press release issued by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security in mid-December stated that more than 600,000 people have been deported so far in 2025, and more than 2.5 other “illegal aliens” have voluntarily left the United States this year. The latter number has not been confirmed by experts outside the Trump administration.
Congressional Democrats have called for hearings on Homan’s alleged bribery case, but Republican control of the House and Senate has stymied any efforts by the president’s critics to subpoena Homan to testify.
“No one is above the law. The American people deserve to know why President Trump’s so-called border czar allegedly used his position and influence to accept bribes for his own benefit. Congress must investigate Tom Homan’s conduct and his impact on government spending. We urgently ask that you immediately subpoena him to testify before the committee on this matter,” Bennie Thompson, the ranking Democratic member of the House Homeland Security Committee, wrote in a September letter to the committee’s Republican chairman.
Senate Democratic leader Chris Murphy, who oversees the appropriations subcommittee that oversees ICE and the Department of Homeland Security, claimed, Homan’s case shows the Trump administration’s double standard of justice for allies of the president and everyone else.
“Look what happened to his border czar, Tom Homan, who actually accepted a bag of cash — $50,000 — and the investigation was dropped once Trump became president,” Murphy told ABC News this fall.
“There are only two standards of justice in this country right now. If you are a friend of the president, a loyalist of the president, you can get away with almost anything… but if you are an opponent of the president, you may find yourself in jail.”
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