Updated on: Sept 21, 2025 03:07 am IST
MSNBC reports FBI probed ICE Director Tom Homan in an undercover op, alleging he took $50K cash from an executive seeking government contracts.
Tom Homan, the Director of the Immigration and Customs Enforcement of the United States, was on the FBI’s radar for allegedly accepting cash to help secure government contracts, a report by MSNBC claims.
As reported by Carol Leonnig and Ken Dilanian, the Federal Bureau of Investigation was probing the Border Czar last year in an “undercover operation” over alleged cash payments received from a business executive trying to secure government contracts. It states that the FBI recorded Homan accepting $50,000 in cash after he “indicated he could help the agents- posing as a business executive.”
The report was based on testimonies by sources familiar with the matter, as well as a review of internal documents by MSNBC.
Why Was Homan Under Investigation
There are different versions of why the investigation into Homan was conducted. While the current Trump administration dismissed it as a “politically motivated” investigation, a number of damning pieces of evidence reportedly prompted it.
It all started in the summer of 2024, when Trump was still a presidential hopeful, but the tides were already strongly in his favour. As per the MSNBC report, the probe was sparked by a subject in a separate FBI investigation who claimed that Homan had been “soliciting payments in exchange for awarding contracts should Trump win the Presidential election.
According to the sources cited in the report, the FBI also managed to gather some explosive evidence against Tom Homan. It includes a video that undercover FBI agents recorded using a hidden camera that shows Homan accepting “50,000 in bills” at a location in Texas.
This story is being updated.
