{"id":133695,"date":"2025-09-22T17:03:24","date_gmt":"2025-09-23T01:03:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2025\/09\/22\/seriously-though-did-tom-homan-keep-the-50000-the-fbi-gave-him\/"},"modified":"2025-09-22T17:03:24","modified_gmt":"2025-09-23T01:03:24","slug":"seriously-though-did-tom-homan-keep-the-50000-the-fbi-gave-him","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2025\/09\/22\/seriously-though-did-tom-homan-keep-the-50000-the-fbi-gave-him\/","title":{"rendered":"Seriously Though, Did Tom Homan Keep The $50,000 The FBI Gave Him?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Over the weekend, it came out that Tom Homan, one of the senior architects of the Trump administration\u2019s immigration policy, allegedly took $50K from undercover FBI agents posing as business executives hoping to bribe their way into government contracts if Trump won. He\u2019s said to have accepted the funds \u2014 which the FBI reportedly captured on video<\/a> \u2014 in a Cava bag<\/a>. If the fast food chain doesn\u2019t immediately capitalize on this with some sort of marketing campaign, then I\u2019ve lost all faith in them.<\/p>\n

Homan, interestingly enough, put himself front-and-center of the move to drop the Eric Adams bribery case. Homan never came across as the proper spokesperson for the administration\u2019s decision, highlighted when he seemed to confirm a quid pro quo<\/a> for dropping the Adams case, but in retrospect, he might have had a vested interest in putting out the message that bribery isn\u2019t anything to be ashamed of.<\/p>\n

Lots of people are talking about this story and its implications for the rule of law, with some comparing the overarching investigation as a modern-day Teapot Dome scandal<\/a>, but Above the Law has a more quotidian query: seriously, what happened to the money? If the FBI gave away $50,000 and then dropped the case\u2026 what happened to it? Where is this taxpayer money?<\/p>\n

I get that the administration declared this a \u201cdeep state\u201d probe \u2014 the exact words of a Trump Justice Department appointee according to NBC sources \u2014 and decided to punt the investigation, but\u2026 is the money still out there? Did they tell Tom that he was wrongfully investigated, but can we please get back our honeypot? They couldn\u2019t really be allowing him to keep it\u2026 right?<\/p>\n

Why is everyone focused on whether or not this was really a crime and not on the money?<\/p>\n

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You should not listen to Kurt and Megyn generally, but you should definitely not listen to people who don\u2019t seem to have the vaguest sense of how the Justice Department functions. First of all, the FBI was involved in a broader, ongoing investigation and doesn\u2019t make it a habit of charging people at the drop of a hat until they\u2019re sure they\u2019ve uncovered the full scope of the enterprise. But more to the point, the DOJ was never going to charge a senior individual in Trump\u2019s orbit in September of 2024, because no matter how good of a case they think they have, the DOJ generally doesn\u2019t take actions that might impact an election mere weeks away. <\/p>\n

This is the complaint that liberals have with James Comey reopening the Hillary email debacle on the cusp of the 2016 election. Which isn\u2019t necessarily fair to Comey, who painted himself into a corner when he made the well-intentioned, if ill-advised, decision over that summer to testify under oath that the FBI had reviewed every single email and found no criminality. At that point he kind of had to inform Congress when new emails emerged, and even though he signaled that those emails were likely irrelevant \u2014 which was ultimately true \u2014 the damage was done. <\/p>\n

Possibly chastened by that experience, the DOJ was absolutely, positively not going to make a public accusation that the Trump campaign was involved in a massive bribery scheme in September of an election year. <\/p>\n

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White House Deputy Press Secretary Abigail Jackson slammed the probe as a \u201cblatantly political investigation, which found no evidence of illegal activity, is yet another example of how the Biden Department of Justice was using it\u2019s resources to target President Trump\u2019s allies rather than investigate real criminals and the millions of illegal aliens who flooded our country.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cTom 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,\u201d she added on behalf of Homan, a senior White House employee.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

OK, but that\u2019s not denying that there was<\/em> an investigation \u2014 indeed, it confirms that there was one \u2014 and it\u2019s certainly not a denial that the investigation included money handed to Homan. Maybe they meant to deny that he ever took $50K in a Cava bag, but that\u2019s not what these answers are saying. So even if we accept these White House responses at face value and decide that this was a bad case, we\u2019re still left out here wondering\u2026 where the hell is that money? Did he report it on his taxes? Now that this is public, can someone in the IRS check?<\/p>\n

Alas, this is an administration that lost hundreds of kids the first time around, and then claimed they misplaced several guys in El Salvador. Maybe we should just accept that they\u2019re never going to find that money. <\/p>\n

The post Seriously Though, Did Tom Homan Keep The $50,000 The FBI Gave Him?<\/a> appeared first on Above the Law<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Over the weekend, it came out that Tom Homan, one of the senior architects of the Trump administration\u2019s immigration policy, allegedly took $50K from undercover FBI agents posing as business executives hoping to bribe their way into government contracts if Trump won. He\u2019s said to have accepted the funds \u2014 which the FBI reportedly captured on video<\/a> \u2014 in a Cava bag<\/a>. If the fast food chain doesn\u2019t immediately capitalize on this with some sort of marketing campaign, then I\u2019ve lost all faith in them.<\/p>\n

Homan, interestingly enough, put himself front-and-center of the move to drop the Eric Adams bribery case. Homan never came across as the proper spokesperson for the administration\u2019s decision, highlighted when he seemed to confirm a quid pro quo<\/a> for dropping the Adams case, but in retrospect, he might have had a vested interest in putting out the message that bribery isn\u2019t anything to be ashamed of.<\/p>\n

Lots of people are talking about this story and its implications for the rule of law, with some comparing the overarching investigation as a modern-day Teapot Dome scandal<\/a>, but Above the Law has a more quotidian query: seriously, what happened to the money? If the FBI gave away $50,000 and then dropped the case\u2026 what happened to it? Where is this taxpayer money?<\/p>\n

I get that the administration declared this a \u201cdeep state\u201d probe \u2014 the exact words of a Trump Justice Department appointee according to NBC sources \u2014 and decided to punt the investigation, but\u2026 is the money still out there? Did they tell Tom that he was wrongfully investigated, but can we please get back our honeypot? They couldn\u2019t really be allowing him to keep it\u2026 right?<\/p>\n

Why is everyone focused on whether or not this was really a crime and not on the money?<\/p>\n

\"\"
<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

You should not listen to Kurt and Megyn generally, but you should definitely not listen to people who don\u2019t seem to have the vaguest sense of how the Justice Department functions. First of all, the FBI was involved in a broader, ongoing investigation and doesn\u2019t make it a habit of charging people at the drop of a hat until they\u2019re sure they\u2019ve uncovered the full scope of the enterprise. But more to the point, the DOJ was never going to charge a senior individual in Trump\u2019s orbit in September of 2024, because no matter how good of a case they think they have, the DOJ generally doesn\u2019t take actions that might impact an election mere weeks away. <\/p>\n

This is the complaint that liberals have with James Comey reopening the Hillary email debacle on the cusp of the 2016 election. Which isn\u2019t necessarily fair to Comey, who painted himself into a corner when he made the well-intentioned, if ill-advised, decision over that summer to testify under oath that the FBI had reviewed every single email and found no criminality. At that point he kind of had to inform Congress when new emails emerged, and even though he signaled that those emails were likely irrelevant \u2014 which was ultimately true \u2014 the damage was done. <\/p>\n

Possibly chastened by that experience, the DOJ was absolutely, positively not going to make a public accusation that the Trump campaign was involved in a massive bribery scheme in September of an election year. <\/p>\n

\n

White House Deputy Press Secretary Abigail Jackson slammed the probe as a \u201cblatantly political investigation, which found no evidence of illegal activity, is yet another example of how the Biden Department of Justice was using it\u2019s resources to target President Trump\u2019s allies rather than investigate real criminals and the millions of illegal aliens who flooded our country.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cTom 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,\u201d she added on behalf of Homan, a senior White House employee.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

OK, but that\u2019s not denying that there was<\/em> an investigation \u2014 indeed, it confirms that there was one \u2014 and it\u2019s certainly not a denial that the investigation included money handed to Homan. Maybe they meant to deny that he ever took $50K in a Cava bag, but that\u2019s not what these answers are saying. So even if we accept these White House responses at face value and decide that this was a bad case, we\u2019re still left out here wondering\u2026 where the hell is that money? Did he report it on his taxes? Now that this is public, can someone in the IRS check?<\/p>\n

Alas, this is an administration that lost hundreds of kids the first time around, and then claimed they misplaced several guys in El Salvador. Maybe we should just accept that they\u2019re never going to find that money. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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