The White House has dismissed US media reports alleging that border tsar Tom Homan accepted a $50,000 (£37,000) bribe last year during an undercover FBI sting operation.
According to various outlets, Homan last year allegedly promised immigration-related government contracts to FBI agents posing as business executives during a meeting in Texas.
White House spokeswoman Karoline Leavitt denied the accusations, stating that Homan "did absolutely nothing wrong" and was the target of Biden administration's politically motivated attempt to discredit him.
Homan is leading efforts to deliver on President Donald Trump's pledge for mass deportations and to stop illegal immigration.
"Mr Homan never took the $50,000 that you're referring to," Leavitt said at Monday's White House briefing. "This was another example of the weaponisation of the Biden Department of Justice against one of President Trump's strongest and most vocal supporters in the midst of a presidential campaign.
