Judiciary Democrats Demand DOJ, FBI Release Recordings of Tom Homan Receiving $50,000 Cash Bribe

Washington, D.C. (September 23, 2025)—Rep. Jamie Raskin, Ranking Member of the House Judiciary Committee, and Committee Democrats sent a letter to Attorney General Pam Bondi and Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) Director Kash Patel demanding the release of the explosive recordings that reportedly show White House “Border Czar” Tom Homan accepting $50,000 in cash bribes in exchange for steering future government contracts to undercover FBI agents posing as corrupt businessmen.

“Confirmed by six sources and reportedly captured on recordings now in DOJ and FBI’s possession, this startling episode is powerful evidence that Mr. Homan may have committed multiple federal felonies, including conspiracy to commit bribery. Your reported effort to shut down this investigation appears to be a brazen cover-up to protect Donald Trump’s allies, at a time when the DOJ and FBI are also being ordered to aggressively pursue prosecution of Donald Trump’s political enemies.  We demand that both of you immediately turn over all recordings from Mr. Homan’s meeting, as well as all files from this investigation of purported bribery involving Mr. Homan. This is an untenable situation,” wrote Committee Democrats. 

Bombshell reporting this weekend revealed that in September 2024, federal agents in Texas pursuing an unrelated case learned that Mr. Homan was soliciting payments in exchange for promises to award federal contracts if Donald Trump won the election. The FBI acted on this lead and undercover agents, posing as business executives, met with Mr. Homan. According to internal Justice Department documents corroborated by multiple sources, hidden cameras and audiotapes captured Mr. Homan accepting $50,000 in cash in a restaurant takeout bag and agreeing to help steer government contracts to the executives and their companies in a future Trump Administration. 

When the Trump Administration took power, it reportedly swiftly shut down the investigation and stopped the work of prosecutors who had been considering four separate criminal charges for Mr. Homan. Shortly after President Trump’s inauguration, former acting Deputy Attorney General Emil Bove was briefed on the case and told Department staff that he did not support the investigation. In recent weeks, Director Patel reportedly requested a status update on the case, after which it was officially closed. 

Today, Mr. Homan presides over President Trump’s mass deportation and detention agenda, which has received billions of dollars in taxpayer funding thanks to the Republicans’ budget reconciliation package. As explained in an August 25, 2025, letter from Judiciary Committee Democrats to Mr. Homan, a significant portion of these payments have gone to private contractors including Mr. Homan’s former client GEO Group. The corruption investigation the Trump Administration blocked would have examined whether Mr. Homan was selling these contracts for personal profit before he even had the power to award them.

Judiciary Democrats are demanding the DOJ and FBI provide all audio and video recordings and photographs documenting the meeting between Mr. Homan and FBI agents, as well as documents and communications related to the investigation and the decision to kill it. The American people have a right to see the evidence of corruption their government chose to conceal. 

Click here to read the letter.