{"id":19725,"date":"2025-09-29T18:12:51","date_gmt":"2025-09-29T18:12:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=19725"},"modified":"2025-09-29T18:12:51","modified_gmt":"2025-09-29T18:12:51","slug":"white-house-defends-border-czar-in-wake-of-closed-doj-probe-homan-did-nothing-wrong","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=19725","title":{"rendered":"White House defends border czar in wake of closed DOJ probe: Homan did \u2018nothing wrong\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>&#8220;Federal law enforcement last year<a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2025\/09\/20\/tom-homan-department-of-justice-investigation-00574379\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">&nbsp;investigated Homan,<\/a>&nbsp;who allegedly accepted $50,000 in cash from undercover FBI agents posing as business executives seeking government contracts,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.msnbc.com\/msnbc\/news\/tom-homan-cash-contracts-trump-doj-investigation-rcna232568\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">according to an MSNBC report on Saturday.<\/a>&nbsp;The outlet reported that Homan indicated he could help the undercover agents secure government contracts. The Justice Department waited to see if Homan planned to fulfil this claim, but the case stalled and was closed this summer.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Does he still have the money?&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8230; Homan is a close ally of the president, and served for a stint as the acting director of Immigration and Customs Enforcement during his first term. The border czar has been among the most visible defenders of the president\u2019s second term immigration agenda, and has been a key player in executing the administration\u2019s deportation policy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2025\/09\/22\/border-homan-white-house-defend-00575358\">https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2025\/09\/22\/border-homan-white-house-defend-00575358<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Federal law enforcement last year investigated Homan, who allegedly accepted $50,000 in cash from undercover FBI agents posing as business executives seeking government contracts, according to an MSNBC report on Saturday. The outlet reported that Homan indicated he could help the undercover agents secure government contracts. The Justice Department waited to see if Homan planned to fulfil this claim, but the case stalled and was closed this summer.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Does he still have the money? <\/p>\n<p>&#8230; Homan is a close ally of the president, and served for a stint as the acting director of Immigration and Customs Enforcement during his first term. The border czar has been among the most visible defenders of the president\u2019s second term immigration agenda, and has been a key player in executing the administration\u2019s deportation policy.<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2025\/09\/22\/border-homan-white-house-defend-00575358<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[449,951,818,221,170],"class_list":["post-19725","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-share","tag-border","tag-corruption","tag-department-of-justice","tag-donald-trump","tag-trump"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19725","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19725"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19725\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19726,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19725\/revisions\/19726"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19725"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19725"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19725"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}