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.

Asked for comment about MSNBC's exclusive reporting, the White House, the Justice Department and the FBI dismissed the investigation as politically motivated and baseless.

In a statement provided to MSNBC, FBI Director Kash Patel and Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche said, “This matter originated under the previous administration and was subjected to a full review by FBI agents and Justice Department prosecutors. They found no credible evidence of any criminal wrongdoing. The Department’s resources must remain focused on real threats to the American people, not baseless investigations. As a result, the investigation has been closed.”

White House Deputy Press Secretary Abigail Jackson slammed the probe as a "blatantly political investigation, which found no evidence of illegal activity, is yet another example of how the Biden Department of Justice was using it’s resources to target President Trump’s allies rather than investigate real criminals and the millions of illegal aliens who flooded our country."

"Tom Homan has not been involved with any contract award decisions. He is a career law enforcement officer and lifelong public servant who is doing a phenomenal job on behalf of President Trump and the country," she added on behalf of Homan, a senior White House employee.

Homan did not reply to requests for comment.

Undercover FBI agents posing as contractors communicated and met several times last summer with a business colleague who introduced them to Homan, and with Homan himself, who indicated he would facilitate securing contracts for them in exchange for money once he was in office, according to documents and the people familiar with the case.

On Sept. 20, 2024, with hidden cameras recording the scene at a meeting spot in Texas, Homan accepted $50,000 in bills, according to an internal summary of the case and sources.

FBI agents and Justice Department prosecutors took no further investigative steps in the final months of 2024, the people said, and expected to keep monitoring Homan to determine if he landed an official role and would make good on steering contracts in a future Trump administration.

When special agents in Texas began probing the subject’s claim that Homan was soliciting bribes, the White House border czar, 63, was president and owner of a private consulting business that said it could help companies in the border security industry win government contracts. Homan often accompanied Trump on the campaign trail in 2023 and 2024, and for months before the presidential election publicly touted that he expected to oversee implementation of Trump’s immigration policies.

“Trump comes back in January, I’ll be on his heels coming back, and I will run the biggest deportation operation this country’s ever seen,” Homan said at the National Conservatism Conference in July 2024.

Several FBI and Justice officials believed that they had a strong criminal case against Homan for conspiracy to commit bribery based on recording him accepting cash and his apparent promise to assist with contracts, according to four people familiar with the probe. Homan could have been charged with a crime then, legal experts say, but his case was unusual: He was not a public official, and Trump was not president at the time he accepted money in the FBI’s undercover sting, so his actions didn’t clearly fit under a standard bribery charge.

Top officials privately debated the possible charges given Homan’s status at the time, people familiar with the case said. But several concluded it would be better for the investigation to continue to monitor his actions once he was back in public office. According to a document reviewed by MSNBC, Justice officials were eyeing four potential criminal charges in his case: conspiracy, bribery and two kinds of fraud.

MSNBC asked legal experts about a hypothetical situation similar to the Homan probe. They said a person who promises to influence federal contracts when they become a public official can’t be charged under the federal bribery statutes until they are named or appointed to such a post. If the person did get the administration job and then reaffirmed his promise or communicated in some way about his plan to deliver on his agreement, investigators could make a strong bribery case.

It is still a crime, however, for anyone to seek money to improperly influence federal contracts, the legal experts said, whether they are a public official or not, and whether they ever delivered on their promise or not. People in this category could be charged with conspiracy or fraud, they say.

“If someone who is not yet a public official, but expects to be, takes bribes in exchange for agreeing to take official acts after they are appointed, they can’t be charged with bribery,” said Randall Eliason, the former chief of public corruption prosecutions in the U.S. Attorney’s Office in D.C. and former white-collar law professor. “But they can be charged with conspiracy to commit bribery. In a conspiracy charge, the crime is the agreement to commit a criminal act in the future.”

On Nov. 11, 2024, President Trump announced he would make Homan his border czar, a White House adviser role, which — unlike the job of director of Immigration and Customs Enforcement — did not require Senate confirmation or an extensive FBI background check.

Several FBI and Justice Department officials believed Homan’s acceptance of the cash provided strong evidence that they should continue to pursue after Homan took public office. The Public Integrity Section, a squad of seasoned public corruption prosecutors typically assigned to sensitive cases involving elected and other high-profile figures, agreed to join the case in late November 2024, according to documents reviewed by MSNBC.

Shortly after Trump’s inauguration, however, in either late January or February 2025, former acting Deputy Attorney General Emil Bove was briefed on the case and told Justice Department officials he did not support the investigation, according to two people familiar with the case.

Around the same time, the Public Integrity Section was battling with Bove over his demand that they dismiss a bribery case against New York Mayor Eric Adams. The section’s supervisors, who would resign one by one in February rather than agree to dismiss the Adams case, had assigned a top supervisor to help oversee the Homan case with federal prosecutors in the Western District of Texas, where the investigation began, two people said.

Homan had spent three decades in federal border protection and immigration enforcement. A former police officer from upstate New York, Homan had started work as a Border Patrol agent in the 1980s and later was promoted to several supervisory jobs. In 2013, President Barack Obama elevated Homan to serve as head of Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s deportation branch.

When Trump was first elected president in 2017, he appointed Homan as acting head of ICE. In that role, Homan pushed the controversial “zero-tolerance” policy for immigrants seeking to cross the border, resulting in the separation of thousands of migrant children from their parents and family members.

Homan’s nomination to become the permanent ICE director stalled in the Senate amid widespread criticism over the administration’s family-separations policies and Senate Democrats’ opposition to his confirmation. After his lengthy career in government service, Homan announced in April 2018 he would retire.

Homan then launched his consulting firm, Homeland Strategic Consulting. Its website boasted of its work with the departments of Homeland Security, Defense, Justice and others: “We have a proven track record of opening doors and bringing successful relationships to our clients, resulting in tens of millions of dollars of federal contracts to private companies.”

During the Biden administration, as Trump prepared to run again for president, Homan remained close to Trump and his advisers, working as a Fox News contributor and with the Heritage Foundation, as well as contributing to Project 2025, the right-wing blueprint for Trump’s second term.

When Homan became Trump’s top border official in 2025, his consulting work and financial ties to border security and immigration-related contractors spurred questions from Democrats in Congress about his potential conflicts of interest.

Many expected Homan, a trusted Trump ally, to serve if Trump were re-elected in 2024. In a December 2023 interview on the slain conservative activist’s eponymous podcast “The Charlie Kirk Show,” Homan promised he’d be pushing a robust removal of immigrants when Trump was re-elected.

“We’re going to have the biggest deportation operation this country has ever seen,” Homan told Benny Johnson, a right-wing commentator and host on the show. “And I’m not going apologize for it.”

After Trump was elected a second time in 2024, amid questions about Homan’s financial relationships with clients who sought work related to the border, Homan said he had no conflict and would take steps to prevent one. He said he was shutting down his consulting business and would remove himself from discussions of specific contracts to avoid the appearance of a conflict of interest.

“As Border Czar, you are uniquely positioned to help your former business client reap a huge windfall from the Trump Administration’s spending on immigration enforcement,” Rep. Jamie Raskin, the ranking Democrat on the House Judiciary Committee, wrote in a letter last month asking for documents and communications with another firm Homan worked for, Geo Group, a major immigration detention contractor. Raskin was joined by Reps. Pramila Jayapal, D-Wash., and Jasmine Crockett, D-Texas, in pressing for answers about Homan’s potential conflicts.

Asked about a hypothetical situation of a person promising help with contracts once they get into public office, Eliason said federal law makes it a crime to strike a corrupt agreement to help influence government contracts and decisions, no matter the identity of the person or whether they succeed. He said a person who is not a public official yet but promises to exert influence improperly when they get the job — and accepts or solicits money to do so — can be charged with conspiracy.

Eliason pointed to the Reagan-era bribery scandal involving the now-defunct defense contractor Wedtech. Eugene Wallach, a lawyer and friend of Attorney General Edwin Meese III, was convicted of conspiracy to commit crimes by taking substantial payments from Wedtech while promising to influence contracts once he landed a high-level Justice Department job under Meese. (A higher court later overturned Wallach’s conviction due to a faulty jury instruction.)

“The defendant is agreeing that he will commit the crime of bribery once he is appointed to be a public official,” Eliason added. “That agreement itself is the conspiracy crime, and the fact that it never actually took place is not a defense. That would be true if he were never even appointed to anything at all.”

>>1440120
>FBI Director Kash Patel and Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche said, “This matter originated under the previous administration and was subjected to a full review by FBI agents and Justice Department prosecutors. They found no credible evidence of any criminal wrongdoing. The Department’s resources must remain focused on real threats to the American people, not baseless investigations. As a result, the investigation has been closed.”
Welp that settles it. Nothing to see here. Delete this thread, OP, Kashapp declared this a non-issue.

What better way that to escape prosecution than to take over the government and stop all Investigations. Fire DAs that intend to prosecute your friends' crimes or not chase bogus charges against your enemies.

Biden let two countries go to war so his son could get rich. Don't give a fuck about this. Shit has been happening forever. They just recorded this

>>1440140
Not even you seriously believes this.

1440140 makes me lol

Shill or maga, either way retarded.

>>1440141
Hunter was getting paid hundreds of thousands for his expert technical skills, right?

>>1440150
god you're boring

>>1440120
I'm clicking the link and there had better be a fucking video.
If there's no fucking video I'm done. Completely and totally done. I'll be watching and believing only Fox News no matter what they tell me.

>>1440166
Turns out there's no video in the link.

... So he owned a consulting business where he helps businesses get government contracts, someone paid him for his help, and after he became a member of the government he didn't help them get a contact?

This news article is literally reporting that he did something legal

>>1440166
Sounds like a little baby tantrum.

Dear God, please give me 18 million dollars and make sexy women want me... you didn't do it! Now I'll kill kids!

This is one reason why you suck.

>>1440174
>with hidden cameras recording the scene at a meeting spot in Texas, Homan accepted $50,000 in bill
>Undercover FBI agents posing as contractors communicated and met several times last summer with a business colleague who introduced them to Homan, and with Homan himself, who indicated he would facilitate securing contracts for them in exchange for money once he was in office
Totally normal behavior, am I right fellow American?

>>1440177
OK MSNBC literally says there's video of it and doesn't provide a video.
I think I'm right to be annoyed and this always seems to be the way it happens.
GIVE VID NOW

>>1440120
Corruption? Bribery? In the Trump administration!? I am shocked! Shocked, I say!

>>1440166
This is how normal people talk.

>>1440193
he took their money and ran lol he didn't even give them anything. 50k is nothing

>>1440196
>it's barely even corruption
shill, how long would it take you to make $50,000?

i hope this response is going to be hilarious

>>1440182
Don't anally rape yourself with the remote because Mom grounded you from playing WoW is all I'm saying. Emotional maturity is a real thing and can be sexy. Baby fits when you aren't a baby anymore, not sexy even a little.

>>1440196
Bah, just a little corruption, nothing to worry about.

Okay, let me inject you with this one little drop of blood infected with HIV, it's just a small drop, shouldn't matter.

>>1440203
probably 2 years after bills, but i'm not a prominent government worker probably getting high 6 figure salary a year.
>>1440212
is it corruption if nothing happened? also its chump change compared to how much congress people like nancy pelosi make from insider trading

>>1440216
it's corruption if you're here

No video, didn't happen

>>1440216
>is it corruption if nothing happened?
Yes. Accepting a bribe is corrupt in and of itself.
>also its chump change compared to how much congress people like nancy pelosi make from insider trading
Or Trump, yes. That’s not an argument. Prosecute them both.

>>1440219
>Accepting a bribe is corrupt in and of itself
No it's not.
Fun fact, there was an article on here a year or two ago about a Democrat accepting a bribe. She didn't follow through on it so they charged her with fraud instead

>>1440216
Can you get AIDS without having gay sex? Yes, you can.

>>1440221
>>1440219
Oh wait I was close but not wrong. The individual was the director of the Orange county Democratic party And she agreed to bribe two council members in return for getting paid. She never actually bribed the council members, she just accepted the bride money and kept it. She was charged for fraud.
https://archive.palanq.win/news/thread/1157395/#1157395

>>1440221
>>1440224
>No it's not.
>Fun fact, here’s an article that shows it is.
Okay.

>>1440217
its unsuccessful lobbying, did a bit of accounting for a job you'd be surprised how much people give away to business partners as "gifts" if some small business is giving a thousand dollar phone and hundred in gift cards away as gifts what do you think the head of immigration gets

>>1440225
>>1440225
Try running it through english->Punjabi translation so you can understand what it says. The article shows that You need to attempt to follow through on whatever the promise was for it to be charged as bribery. In the example I showed nothing was followed through on and they decided it was fraud

>>1440221
>Democrat accepting a bribe
Did the leader of the democrat's son accept 2b from Saudi Arabia?

Did the leaders of the democrats call someone and say they obviously won the election based on rally size, then ask for 11780 votes, which was only 1 more vote needed than they had?

Did the leaders of the democrats send in fake electors?

Did the leaders of the democrats do an insurrection on the capital building on jan6?

Did the leaders of the democrats withhold funds already approved to Ukraine unless they agreed to publicly say they were investigating a political opponent?

I could add 100+ lines under this one.

>>1440231
>Try running it through english->Punjabi translation so you can understand what it says.
I’m not reading further than this. Fuck off. Corruption is corruption.

>>1440235
Sometimes it's just fraud. Educate yourself.

>>1440120
Well that's completely unsurprising. Honestly one of the disappointing things about corrupt American officials is the fact that they're cheap as fuck. I've heard cases of votes being swung by a mere five thousand dollars. Jesus, have some self-worth.

Popeye the Fudd likes the green and it ain't spinach

Eating McDonald's, PizzaHut or KFC can infect you with AIDS. It is just so yummy though. Hey, it is your body, your choice. You want to get sick and die, fine.

>>1440272
The get tax cedits when they hire someone with HPV. I think they conspire to spread these germs, Big Pharma behind it?

Point of story? Corruption exists. We don't care though, bro. We won! Don't you get that? Or is your libshit brain not comprendo that? We fucking won and we are winning. Who cares what some patriot does as a side hustle? I make gay porn but I'm not gay but I'm rich. So fuck off, terrorist.

>>1440274
Made as a joke but upon reviewing seemed too real. Left this for clarification.

You know, it's been my experience that when someone claims they have video of something and you can't watch the video, then they're probably full of shit.
>I have it on video
>Can I see the video?
>No

>>1440182
the FBI has the video, but clearly have not released it

>>1440290
>The Mueller report is going to capsize the dRumpf admin any day now.
I WANNA BELIEVE!!

>>1440291
If video comes out do you promise to shut the fuck up forever and vote D no matter who til you die?

Balls on the table or fuck off.

>>1440120
>On Sept. 20, 2024, with hidden cameras recording the scene at a meeting spot in Texas, Homan accepted $50,000 in bills, according to an internal summary of the case and sources.
>When special agents in Texas began probing the subject’s claim that Homan was soliciting bribes, the White House border czar, 63, was president and owner of a private consulting business that said it could help companies in the border security industry win government contracts.

So, at the time of the video the guy was a lobbyist and they paid him to lobby for them? This is pretty weak sauce.

Even the National Review is saying this sounds bad and warrants Congressional investigation.
https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/what-to-make-of-the-tom-homan-bribery-allegation/

>>1440333
>even the National Review

>>1440333
>National review
So basically Democrats?

>No video
Even if there is a video, it's still not corruption. The actual story is that there are anti-Trump people in the FBI. We need to get those people out. Put them in jail and replace them with /ourguys/.

>>1440344
Shut up leftfag

>>1440345
Fuck off cultist

>>1440334
>>1440341
Neocons are still republicans even if they aren't MAGA sycophants.

>>1440376
>Neocons are still republicans
That's where you're wrong, bucko.

>>1440380
They bow to Trump on everything. They have no spine.

>>1440382
>Republicans supporting a Republican is spinless bowing
?

>>1440385
giving up all of your legislative powers is extremely spineless

>>1440386
Shut up retard. The entire DNC cucked to Hillary and Biden

>>1440413
Go back to your hugbox and never come back here.

>>1440414
You're the only one trying to censor people, jeet

>>1440417
nice projection esl shill

>>1440422
Literal non white non American jeet shills calling others ESL is hilarious

>>1440424
you are extremely bad at english to the point that making fun of you for it makes me look bad. please get those english lessons soon ok

>>1440425
My English is fine. You are a street shitting jeet though

>>1440427
it's not fine, it's atrocious and we are all aware of that fact. i mean just look at how many errors are in this thread alone

>>1440417
This is hilarious considering >>1440377

>>1440274
>>1440344
It's becoming harder to distinguish satire and sarcasm from real opinions these days.

>>1440453
the internet is in serious need of fumigation

>>1440223
Hey does anybody have the Charlie Kirk assassination the full video of it not edited you know the showing him getting shot and what happened afterwards and stuff