Dorchester Reporter
By Bill Forry, Executive Editor
September 29, 2025
US Rep. Stephen Lynch this week called for a Congressional probe into allegations that Tom Homan, President Trump’s “border czar,” accepted a $50,000 cash bribe as part of a FBI sting operation into public corruption last year.
Lynch also demanded a Congressional hearing on why Trump’s Dept. of Justice has dropped the case.
“Accepting shopping bags full of cash in return for public contracts is unacceptable,” Lynch said in a statement released Monday, which cited media reports about Homan’s alleged bribery scheme.
“We must fully investigate the facts surrounding the potentially criminal misconduct reportedly committed by Tom Homan, the White House “Border Czar,” as well as the potential cover-up by the Department of Justice to protect President Trump’s political allies.”
Homan, who has pledged to “bring hell” to Boston as part of a Trump crackdown on cities who don’t obey federal demands for anti-immigrant crackdowns, was reportedly caught on audio tape accepting cash from undercover FBI agents in September 2024.
The agents were posing as businessmen seeking future contracts with the Trump administration. A federal prosecution of the alleged crime was scuttled once Trump was inaugurated.
Lynch, who serves on the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, pressed the committee’s chairman, James Comer, to bring Homan and the FBI agents involved in the sting before Congress.
In a letter to Comer, he wrote that “Mr. Homan’s reported misconduct and the abrupt termination of the DOJ investigation are deeply concerning matters that clearly fall within the oversight jurisdiction of the Committee to investigate reports of waste, fraud, and abuse in the Federal Government—especially considering that Trump Administration officials continue to vehemently deny these published accounts and have even alleged that non-partisan federal law enforcement agents sought to ‘entrap one of the president’s top allies and supporters.”
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