Trump official cornered on live TV over where his alleged $50,000 bribe is
11 January
Tom Homan, President Donald Trump's executive associate director of enforcement and removal operations (Photo: Screen capture)
Editor's Note: A previous version of this story did not include the fact that the bribe, as of this writing, is still an unproved allegation. Both the headline and the story have since been updated. AlterNet regrets the error.
NBC News' Kristen Welker pressed Tom Homan on a alleged $50,000 bribe he accepted in 2024 and what happened to the money he was given.
Homan, President Donald Trump's executive associate director of enforcement and removal operations, was accused of being involved in a contracts-for-cash scheme that was part of a sting operation
MSNBC reporters Carol Leonnig and Ken Dilanian reported in September that Homan was part of an investigation into a private-prison contracts scheme involving his former ICE colleague, Julian “Jace” Calderas.
"And in May 2023, he proposed a scheme, according to the FBI, whereby for $1 million, Homan could get them contracts and continued proposing that to the point that the FBI concluded they had to begin investigating Tom Homan for potential bribery," said Leonnig on MS NOW, while speaking about the report.
Leonnig noted that Homan had not publicly addressed the allegation. The White House, however, denied that he took the bribe in a press statement.
Welker pressed Homan on the unresolved questions surrounding the alleged money transfer and its whereabouts.
Homan denied the allegation, stating he didn't receive $50,000 from anyone and that he did nothing wrong."I didn't have money to return," Homan claimed.
He also noted that the FBI has "cleared this."
Welker also asked to confirm whether the incident was recorded, whether there is a report on the matter and if it would ever be released.
Homan replied that those were all questions for the FBI.
She asked: "It might be a decision of the FBI, but would you be comfortable" with it being released?
"I'm not going to get ahead of the FBI in this investigation," Homan said, indicating that the matter was still an investigation.
He also complained that discussion on the matter keeps going "on, and on, and on, and on" despite his being cleared by the FBI.
"So I'm not going to answer any more of these questions," Homan said.
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