According to an MSNBC report, Homan accepted a $50,000 cash payment from undercover FBI agents posing as business executives in exchange for promised government contracts. MSNBC said the exchange was caught on video, while The New York Times reported it was recorded on audiotape. FBI Director Kash Patel and Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche said the case was subjected to a full review and that investigators found no credible evidence of any criminal wrongdoing.
Democrats in both the US Senate and House on Tuesday announced they were launching a probe into President Donald Trump's "border czar," Tom Homan, after MSNBC reported this past weekend that he was caught on camera accepting a $50,000 cash bribe by undercover FBI agents. In a letter sent to Attorney General Pam Bondi and Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche, the Democrats on the Senate Judiciary Committee said they had "grave concern" about the US Department of Justice (DOJ) reportedly shutting down the probe into Homan despite the FBI allegedly possessing video evidence of him accepting $50,000 in cash from agents who were posing as businessmen.
So first of all, free legal advice for everybody, do not accept $50,000 in a bag just as a general rule. Now my prosecutorial antenna are definitely up at this scenario, but it's also important to understand the bribery laws can be confusing, and at times confounding. So one of the potential issues here is it's not necessarily a crime for a person to take a bribe, a benefit, On the promise of, If I get into office, I will do something for you.
He was the underappreciated star of Sam Ervin's special committee looking into the break-in, and general campaign of dirty tricks and sabotage that led up to, activities that entered the political lexicon as ratfcking. It was Ulasewicz's job to deliver hundreds of thousands of dollars in hush money to a variety of Watergate participants, most notably G. Gordon Liddy and E. Howard Hunt.
Tom Homan stated, 'ICE agents are facing an 830% increase in assaults because of smears from the left. Their words have consequences. We won't let them pretend they don't.'
I believe we're removing public safety threats and terrorists, designated terrorists, to that prison in El Salvador, Homan said. Tren de Aragua, MS-13 have been designated terrorist organizations.