The White House changes explanation on Tom Homan, an American border tsar accused of having taken $ 50,000 in a paper bag

The White House is held behind the American border, Tsar Tom Homan, following reports, it had accepted $ 50,000 American agents posing as a businessmen during an FBI operation last year, the press secretary offering a more specific denial than the Trump administration initially provided.

Press secretary Karoline Leavitt described Homan’s meeting with infiltrated agents as an effort from the administration of President Joe Biden to “trap one of the best allies and supporters of the president, someone they knew very well would adopt a post of government”.

“The White House and the President stand 100% by Tom Homan because he has done absolutely nothing wrong, and it is a courageous civil servant who did phenomenal work to help the president close the border,” she said.

MSNBC reported on Saturday that Homan had accepted money in a September 20, 2024, infiltrated agents who pretended to be businessmen looking for government contracts that Homan suggested that he could help them get a second term Trump.

The Ministry of Justice of the Trump Administration, which closed the investigation, said that the case was “subject to a complete exam”, but the authorities found “no credible evidence of any criminal act”.

“The resources of the department must remain focused on the real threats to the American people, and not base -based surveys,” said FBI director Kash Patel and Deputy Prosecutor Todd Blanche in a statement. “As a result, the investigation was closed.”

Leavitt insisted for journalists during a briefing on Monday that Homan “never took the $ 50,000 to which you refer”, even if she did not explain what she meant. An MSNBC spokesperson said the network was reported.

On Sunday, two sources familiar with the case told Reuters that Homan had accepted the money.

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The former ice director, Tom Homan, appointed the “ border tsar ” by Donald Trump

The American elected president Donald Trump appointed Tom Homan, the former American director of the application of immigration and customs services, in charge of the country’s borders. Homan had to be offered a position linked to the border and Trump’s commitment to launch the largest deportation operation in the history of the country.

Monday evening, Fox News host Laura Ingraham gave her a chance to answer the reports that “you said you took $ 50,000 in cash in a bag of an FBI infiltant agent”.

“I didn’t do anything criminal. I didn’t do anything illegal,” said Homan in response.

“You are talking about a guy who spent 34 years applying the law. I mean, I left a very successful business that I have run to come back and work again for the government,” said Homan, who added that he and his family were subjected to death threats.

The White House spokesman Abigail Jackson said that Homan “had not been involved in any contract award decision.”

Without providing evidence, the White House criticized the investigation into the Biden administration as a political motivation. But the director of the FBI during Biden’s mandate was Christopher Wray, a registered Republican, and the Ministry of Justice investigated the Democrats for corruption, including veteran Bob Menendez, who is now in prison.

“ Two standards of justice ”

Homan was a key figure behind immigration policies and Trump’s expulsion efforts, as an acting director of immigration and customs application (ICE) in the first Trump administration. Shortly after Trump’s presidential victory in November, he announced that Homan would serve as a “border tsar” in the new administration.

The Democrats of the Chamber’s Judicial Committee in a letter called on Patel on Tuesday to publish “explosive recordings” and other documents of the abandoned investigation.

“Confirmed by six sources and would have been captured on recordings now in (Ministry of Justice) and possession of the FBI, this surprising episode is powerful proof that Mr. Homan may have committed several federal crimes, including the conspiracy in order to commit corruption.”

Between his stays in the two Trump administrations, Homan was a consultant for Geo Group, who is investing in private prisons and has obtained several new contracts this year from the federal government.

“The investigation into corruption blocked by the Trump administration would have examined whether Mr. Homan sold these contracts for personal profit before he even had the power to award them,” the Democrats wrote.

The MSNBC report has raised new concerns concerning political interference in issues of the Ministry of Justice at a time when Trump calls for the prosecution of his opponents test the long tradition of independence of the law enforcement agency.

Trump intensified his pressure campaign on the Ministry of Justice during the weekend, publicly calling the Attorney General Pam Bondi to move forward with business against the Attorney General of New York, Letitia James, the former director of the FBI James Comey and the American senator Adam Schiff. In addition, Trump’s former national security adviser John Bolton has darkened his residence and office this summer, although the details of this investigation were not officially announced.

“Seeing what happened to Tom Homan, his Tsar border, who literally accepted a bag of money – $ 50,000 – and the investigation was abandoned once Trump became president,” said Democratic Senator Chris Murphy on ABC News. “There are only two standards of justice now in this country. If you are a friend of the president, loyalist of the president, you can get out of it with almost anything … But if you are an opponent of the president, you can find yourself in prison.”

Erik Siebert, American lawyer for the Virginia eastern district, whose survey of a month’s mortgage fraud on Letitia James had not led to criminal charges, resigned on Friday under pressure from the Trump administration. Lindsey Halligan, an assistant from the White House who previously was a lawyer in Trump when he was private, was used to succeed Siebert.

Siebert is part of a certain number of justice departments and FBI officials postponed this year by the administration, with several proceedings later, alleging an unfair dismissal.