White House Rebuts Reports Alleging Tom Homan Took Bribes From Undercover FBI Agents

The White House said an investigation launched during the Biden administration yielded no evidence of illegal activity or criminal wrongdoing.

White House border czar Tom Homan speaks at the White House on June 30, 2025. Madalina Kilroy/The Epoch Times

The White House has dismissed reports alleging that border czar Tom Homan accepted bribes from undercover FBI agents in an investigation launched against him during the Biden administration last year.

White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt told reporters on Sept. 22 that Homan never accepted $50,000 in cash from FBI agents who posed as executives seeking government contracts, as alleged.

Leavitt suggested that the investigation launched against Homan under the former administration—which has since been closed—was politically motivated.

“This was another example of the weaponization of the Biden Department of Justice against one of President [Donald] Trump’s strongest and most vocal supporters in the midst of a presidential campaign,” Leavitt said at a press briefing.

“You had FBI agents going undercover to try and entrap one of the president’s top allies and supporters, someone who they knew very well would be taking a government position months later,” she added.

According to Leavitt, the Justice Department (DOJ) and FBI have reviewed the case with “a number of different prosecutors and FBI agents” and found no evidence of illegal activity or criminal wrongdoing.

“The White House and the president stand by Tom Homan 100 percent because he did absolutely nothing wrong,” she stated.

Homan, who is leading the Trump administration’s nationwide crackdown on illegal immigration, has denied the allegations.

“I’m glad the FBI and DOJ came out and said that nothing illegal happened and nothing, you know, no criminal activity,” Homan said on Fox News’ “The Ingraham Angle” show aired on Sept. 22.

House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) said Sept. 22 that the Trump administration should open an investigation into Homan instead of going after political opponents such as Sen. Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) and former FBI Director James Comey, for whom he said there was “zero basis” to prosecute.

“If they want to prosecute or investigate anyone, start with Tom Homan and the fact that he appears to have taken a $50,000 bribe, but they want to sweep those charges under the table to allow this guy to continue to unleash masked ICE agents on the American people,” he told CNN.

Jeffries also suggested that the Democratic Party would launch its own internal investigation into Homan.

“We are not going to wait until we take the majority back in November of next year,” he said.

The Epoch Times has reached out to the White House for comment and did not receive a response by publication time.