ALSO SEE: Trump’s Border Czar Tom Homan Caught Taking $50K in Cash From Undercover FBI Agents

Homan was caught on tape accepting a bag filled with $50,000 in cash from an undercover FBI agent in September 2024, according to people familiar with the matter and a government document.

The Trump administration’s border czar, Tom Homan, was caught on tape accepting a bag filled with $50,000 in cash from undercover FBI agents in Texas in September 2024, when he was a private citizen, according to two people familiar with the matter and a government document confirming the existence of the probe.

At the time, Homan was being floated for a top immigration job in the incoming administration and allegedly took the money from agents posing as businessmen in exchange for potentially helping the men land contracts related to immigration enforcement if President Donald Trump won the election, the people said.

The Justice Department, in the final months of the Biden administration, launched a bribery investigation into Homan, but the Trump administration shut it down this year, citing a lack of “credible evidence” and calling it a “political investigation.”

“This blatantly political investigation, which found no evidence of illegal activity, is yet another example of how the Biden Department of Justice was using its resources to target President Trump’s allies rather than investigate real criminals and the millions of illegal aliens who flooded our country,” White House spokeswoman Abigail Jackson said in a statement. “Tom 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.”

The investigation, which was first reported by MSNBC, stemmed from an unrelated counterintelligence probe — which Homan was not the target of — during which undercover FBI agents met the chief executive of a government contracting business focused on immigration operations and detention management. That executive proposed in front of the undercover agents to pay $1 million to Homan in exchange for a contract, and a plan was hatched in which the undercover agents would meet Homan and pay him the cash, according to the people familiar with the situation, who spoke on the condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to discuss it publicly.

The case was launched in the Western District of Texas, but the Justice Department’s Public Integrity Section — which has historically overseen cases involving public officials and potential voting crimes — became involved in November 2024, one of the people said.