Tom Homan bribery investigation Justice Department.

The White House is standing behind “border czar” Tom Homan following reports he had accepted $50,000 from undercover agents posing as businesspeople during an undercover FBI operation last year, leading to a bribery investigation that was shut down by the Trump administration Justice Department. Press secretary Karoline Leavitt on Monday characterized Homan’s encounter with the undercover agents as an effort by the Biden administration to “entrap one of the president’s top allies and supporters.” MSNBC first reported Saturday that Homan had accepted the cash during a 2024 encounter with undercover agents posing as businesspeople seeking government contracts that Homan suggested he could help them get in a second Trump term.