President Donald Trump's border czar, Tom Homan, was recorded accepting a $50,000 cash payment from undercover FBI agents in a 2024 sting operation, but the Justice Department ultimately shut down the bribery investigation, according to people familiar with the case, a new piece by The New York Times has revealed.
The operation stemmed from a separate counterintelligence probe in which a target suggested Homan was taking bribes in exchange for future immigration-related government contracts. Undercover agents later met with Homan in September 2024 and captured him on tape allegedly agreeing to help secure contracts for the agents—posing as businessmen—if Trump returned to office. The money was delivered in a bag from the restaurant chain Cava, the sources said.
