“Nothing to it” is how border czar Tom Homan described the allegations that in September 2024, according to sources familiar with the case who spoke to The New York Times, he was recorded accepting $50,000 stuffed into a bag from the fast-casual chain Cava from undercover FBI agents. The FBI agents were initially investigating a different target, per sources who spoke to the Times, and were posing as businessmen looking for government contracts along the border. At the time of the investigation, Homan, who had served as acting head of the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement in the first Trump administration, did not hold a government role, but sources told the Times he became the subject of an inquiry himself when authorities learned that a payment to Homan could allegedly l

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