WASHINGTON — The FBI recorded Tom Homan, the current White House border czar, accepting $50,000 in cash last year during an undercover investigation later dropped by the Trump administration, according to news reports.
Homan accepted the money after suggesting he could help agents posing as business executives win government contracts in a second Trump term, MSNBC reported citing sources familiar and internal documents.
The encounter led Homan, who was the acting director of Immigration and Customs Enforcement in Trump's first term, to be investigated for bribery and other potential crimes, according to The New York Times.
Under the Trump administation, officials at the Department of Justice closed the investigation because they doubted they could could convince a jury Homan agreed to specific actions in exchange for the cash, the outlet reported.
Neither the White House nor the FBI denied in statements that a probe of Homan had occurred.
