MSNBC has the jaw-dropping story:
In an undercover operation last year, the FBI recorded Tom Homan, now the White House border czar, accepting $50,000 in cash after indicating he could help the agents — who were posing as business executives — win government contracts in a second Trump administration, according to multiple people familiar with the probe and internal documents reviewed by MSNBC.
The FBI and the Justice Department planned to wait to see whether Homan would deliver on his alleged promise once he became the nation’s top immigration official. But the case indefinitely stalled soon after Donald Trump became president again in January, according to six sources familiar with the matter. In recent weeks, Trump appointees officially closed the investigation, after FBI Director Kash Patel requested a status update on the case, two of the people said.
The MSNBC report explains that since Homan was not in office at the time he allegedly took the money, he had not broken federal bribery laws. But he could have (and probably should have) been charged with conspiracy to commit bribery.
Under any ethical administration Homan would be booted out of a job and indicted ASAP. But not with Felon 47 in the White House! Or with his lickspittles Emil Bove and Todd Blanche at the DOJ or Kash Patel at the FBI.
