Meet “The Bag Man.” Trump’s Boarder Czar Takes 50K in FBI Sting. Keeps the Cash and Walks Free.

Tom Homan walked into a meeting in Texas on September 20, 2024, and accepted $50,000 in cash from men he thought were businessmen. They were FBI agents. Hidden cameras captured everything. Multiple sources have confirmed what happened. Career federal prosecutors believed they had evidence to charge him with conspiracy to commit bribery. And yet today, Tom Homan runs Donald Trump’s border operation, overseeing billions in taxpayer dollars and wielding enormous power over immigration policy, because the moment Trump’s political appointees took control of the Justice Department, they killed the investigation and made the whole thing disappear.

The cash was in a Cava bag—not even a briefcase or an envelope, just a takeout bag from a fast-casual Mediterranean restaurant. It’s the kind of detail that seems almost deliberately crude, as if corruption has stopped even pretending to have standards. But this isn’t a story about tackiness or poor operational security. This is a story about how ac…