Ya CANNOT Make this Stuff Up…..
This happened last year…..
But it WAS an acceptance of money for ‘potentially helping the men land contracts related to immigration enforcement if President Donald Trump won the election, the people said.’ a NY Times piece linked below states….
One should NOT be surprised in these factual reveals for This President’s picks….
At the time, Homan was being floated for a top immigration job in the incoming administration and allegedly took the money from agents posing as businessmen in exchange for potentially helping the men land contracts related to immigration enforcement if President Donald Trump won the election, the people said.
The Justice Department, in the final months of the Biden administration, launched a bribery investigation into Homan, but the Trump administration shut it down this year, citing a lack of “credible evidence” and calling it a “political investigation.”
“This blatantly political investigation, which found no evidence of illegal activity, is yet another example of how the Biden Department of Justice was using its resources to target President Trump’s allies rather than investigate real criminals and the millions of illegal aliens who flooded our country,” White House spokeswoman Abigail Jackson said in a statement. “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.”….
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Because Homan was not yet a government official at the time he accepted the money and Trump had not yet been elected, it could have been tricky to bring bribery charges, though at least some people in the government felt that there was adequate evidence showing Homan would be getting a powerful job in the incoming administration to bring such charges, according to the people familiar with the matter….
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Jonathan Kravis, a former prosecutor in the Public Integrity Section who now works in private practice, said bringing the case would depend on exactly what Homan promised and from what position he said he would deliver those favors.
Regardless, Kravis said, the recording of Homan accepting $50,000 in cash should trigger a robust investigation to determine whether the Trump official attempted to deliver on his promises once he assumed power.
“The problem is that in the summer 2024, Homan doesn’t know exactly what his position will be in the Trump administration,” Kravis said. “But it will certainly merit some follow up.”….
Note….
One COULD question if Homan would be working for the United States Government if the President was anybody except Trump, a convicted felon himself…..
image…The Intercept
Jill Wine-Banks (now on Threads and Bluesky)@JillWineBanks
Everyone asking who has ever seen bags of cash for payoffs has forgotten #Watergate. Bags of hush money to keep the burglars from saying that the White House and CREEP were involved were left at a phone booth in one of their attys. And a plane crashed with a defendant’s wife with a purse full of $
Welcome to Mobocracy
Andrew Sullivan: “The president openly demands his attorney general file charges against named political enemies despite no solid evidence they have committed any crimes.”
“One of his senior officials, Tom Homan, is on an FBI tape receiving $50,000 in cash in bribes, and he remains in office with the full backing of the president. Megyn Kelly says of this bribe: ‘WE DO NOT CARE.’”
“This is a criminal enterprise, not an administration.”
Update…..
A White House spokeswoman denied on Monday that the president’s border czar, Tom Homan, accepted a bag with $50,000 in cash as part of an undercover F.B.I. investigation last September, contradicting news reports about the case.
F.B.I. agents working under cover made an audio recording of the September 2024 meeting in which Mr. Homan accepted the money in a bag from the fast-food chain Cava, The New York Times reported on Saturday.
On the tape, he appeared to agree to try to help the agents posing as businessmen get lucrative federal contracts related to border security in a possible second Trump administration, according to people who requested anonymity to describe details of the case.
The investigation was closed by the Trump Justice Department this year, frustrating some of the people who worked on it, these people said….
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The FBI REPORTILY HAS a TAPE