Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.) asked Attorney General Pam Bondi on Tuesday morning about what happened to the $50,000 in cash that undercover FBI agents allegedly gave border czar Tom Homan as part of an investigation that grew out of a counterintelligence investigation.

Whitehouse asked Bondi whether the FBI ever got the money back or whether Homan reported the income on his taxes, questions that Bondi deflected by pointing out the investigation was closed.

“What became of the $50,000 in cash that the FBI paid to Mr. Homan in a paper bag?” Whitehouse asked, which led to a long silence in the hearing room.

“Senator, as Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche recently stated, the investigation of Mr. Homan was subjected to a full review by the FBI, agents and DOJ prosecutors. They found n

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