Trump DOJ sued over alleged Tom Homan bribe recording [View all]

Source: Salon

Published October 7, 2025 9:04AM (EDT)


A new lawsuit alleges that the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the Department of Justice failed to comply with an expedited Freedom of Information Act request involving a “key recording” in a reported bribery scandal involving White House border czar Tom Homan.

The scandal, first reported by MSNBC, alleges that Homan accepted the cash bribe from agents posing as business executives in exchange for government contracts in a second Trump administration. MSNBC reported that the exchange had been captured on video, while The New York Times reported that it had been “recorded on audiotape.”

Democracy Forward, a D.C.-based policy research and legal services organization, filed the lawsuit on Monday morning with the D.C. District Court. It had filed a FOIA request for any alleged recording of the incident on Sept. 22 and requested expedited processing on the 25th, which was denied.

The organization says the legal challenge aims to “compel compliance” from the FBI and DOJ to release the purported recording of Homan accepting $50,000 from undercover FBI agents in Sept. 2024.

Read more: https://www.salon.com/2025/10/07/trump-doj-sued-over-alleged-tom-homan-bribe-recording/