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https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/20/us/politics/tom-homan-fbi-trump.html?unlocked_article_code=1.nU8.9brt.szpSh-juYcxI&smid=nytcore-android-share

Undercover agents posing as businessmen seeking contracts met with Mr. Homan in September 2024, these people said.

On the audio tape of that meeting, Mr. Homan seemed to agree to help the undercover agents secure contracts from the next administration if Mr. Trump won re-election, the people said.

The investigation, which was originally run out of Texas, became more consequential once Mr. Trump won and the chances of Mr. Homan taking a government role increased.

Tom Homan, who was later named President Trump’s border czar, was recorded in September 2024 accepting a bag with $50,000 in cash in an undercover F. B. I. investigation, according to people familiar with the case, which was later shut down by Trump administration officials.

The cash payment, which was made inside a bag from the food chain Cava, grew out of a long-running counterintelligence investigation that had not been targeting Mr. Homan, according to the people, who spoke on condition of anonymity to describe the case.

Mr. Homan’s encounter with the undercover agents, recorded on audiotape, led him to be investigated for potential bribery and other crimes, after he apparently took the money and agreed to help the agents — who were posing as businessmen — secure future government contracts related to border security, the people said.

After Mr. Trump took office this year, Justice Department officials shut down the case because of doubts about whether prosecutors could prove to a jury that Mr. Homan had agreed to do any specific acts in exchange for the money, and because he had not held an official government position at the time of the meeting with undercover agents, the people added.

I was thinking about the whole Greenland thing yesterday. Much of the world hates Trump, so I was thinking what if Trump offered Denmark his resignation from office in exchange for Greenland. Do you think their governments and people would take that deal if they felt they were helping the world?

I have been talking about the leftist bitch tenant from hell that lives below me at my parent's house. My parents mailed her a certified 60 day eviction notice that arrived at the beginning of this month. This woman was always critical of me and instigated fights and false accusations towards me. As I am getting married very soon, both me and my wife-to-be feel very uncomfortable with her presence. My parents have had enough.

She is considered an "at-will" tenant, which is equivalent to a month-to-month rent situation. My parents really only had to give her a 30 day notice, but out of courtesy, they gave her 60 days total. Despite this, she is showing no eagerness to leave. While my parents did send her a written notice, she was verbally told to start packing on August 17. Do you think this will eventually be a situation where a court eviction will ensue and her ass will have to be dragged out by the Sheriff's Office?

I understand some low IQ, smooth brained people will fall for that type of shit but tbh it's long term counterproductive, below the belt & shady.

The canons of ethics REQUIRE a "zealous defense" so for that attorney to do less or otherwise for fear of long term career consequences is dangerous OR it may circumscribe an entire occupation from pursuing public office.

I don't know when I see campaign ads that attack people who were defense attorneys / public defenders early in their career it really pisses me off.

House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-Louisiana) on Sunday backed off his claim that President Donald Trump was an FBI informant in the case of sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.

While Trump has said that he kicked Epstein out of Mar-a-Lago, his members-only club in Florida, he has also recently called the latest demands for the release of more information on the Epstein case a “Democrat hoax that never ends.”

Last week, Johnson told reporters on Capitol Hill that Trump cares deeply about the crimes Epstein committed and he said that Trump “was an FBI informant to try to take this stuff down.”

On Sunday, his office released a statement modifying that claim.

“The Speaker is reiterating what the victims’ attorney said, which is that Donald Trump — who kicked Epstein out of Mar-a-Lago — was the only one more than a decade ago willing to help prosecutors expose Epstein for being a disgusting child predator,” the statement from Johnson’s office read.