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A bombshell new report says border czar Tom Homan became the object of an FBI sting last year after an associate suggested to FBI agents that his former boss was ripe for a bribe.
According to MSNBC’s Carol Leonnig and Ken Dilanian, the Homan associate — Julian “Jace” Calderas— bragged to undercover agents that Homan “could facilitate future government contracts in exchange for big money.”
Calderas is a former U.S. immigration official who worked under Homan in the Obama administration, noted the Monday report.
The report cites anonymous sources to claim that Calderas “allegedly proposed to the agents — who were posing as businessmen — that Homan, in exchange for $1 million, could help them win lucrative federal contracts if Donald Trump became president again.”
Calderas, the co-owner of a detention services and government contracting firm in Texas, had several discussions with agents about his “cash-for-contracts proposal,” the report said. It was during a Sept. 20, 2024, meeting in Dallas when agents allegedly recorded Homan accepting $50,000 in cash, Leonnig and Dilanian wrote, citing a government document and anonymous sources.
“At that same meeting, the document shows, Calderas accepted $10,000 from the undercover FBI agents. His alleged proposal to undercover FBI agents, which had not been previously reported, led to a full-blown Justice Department investigation of Homan, who at the time was a private consultant helping clients obtain government contracts,” the report said.
Just over a week ago, MSNBC reported that President Donald Trump’s Department of Justice shut down an investigation into Homan for allegedly accepting the cash bribe.
Calderals told MSNBC by phone that he knew nothing about the criminal investigation.
The White House has called the investigation, which was started under the Biden administration, “politically motivated.” Homan has said he did nothing wrong.
In a statement to MSNBC, White House deputy press secretary Abigail Jackson said the new reporting “changes nothing.”
She called “the now-shuttered federal criminal probe a ‘blatantly political investigation, which found no evidence of illegal activity’ and one she said was driven by Biden Justice Department appointees ‘to target President Trump’s allies,’” the report said.
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