Border Czarâs $50K FBI Cash-Grab: Ethics? What Ethics?
Tom Homan, the Trump-era border czar, is caught in a juicy ethics spaghetti: taking a $50,000 cash payment from undercover FBI agents posing as DHS contractors in a sting that would make Ocean's Eleven blush. Meanwhile, his sidekick Mark Hall allegedly met in August 2025 with Industrial Tent Systemsâa company specializing in immigrant detention tent contractsâwhile Hall was fresh off receiving a $50,000 consulting fee in February from Charlie Sowell, simultaneously linked to both men like a bad rom-com love triangle. White House spokeswoman Abigail Jackson rushed to defend Tom with the enthusiasm of someone explaining why pineapple belongs on pizza, calling reports 'debunked left-wing talking points.' A watchdog nonprofit begged Inspector General Joseph Cuffari to investigate what smells worse than a forgotten lunchbox in Texas tents. Also, $45 billion in shiny new detention money just landed from Congress, somehow adding fuel to this ethical dumpster fire.
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When your border czar takes $50K from spy FBI agents disguised as contractors, you know ethics went missing at Industrial Tent Systemsâ August party. The line between work and criminal recruitment is just a blurry TikTok filter now.
Tom Homanâs ethics checklist: take $50k cash, deny receipt, deny again, blame 'previous administration,' and call it a day. Starter pack for the political moral compass gone rogue.
Nothing screams 'border security' like secret $50k payments and consulting fees shuffling between the same three guys. Industrial Tent Systems might as well rebrand as 'Conflict of Interest Inc.'
Source: Propublica | Published: 10/21/2025 | Author: by Avi Asher-Schapiro, Mica Rosenberg and Jeff Ernsthausen
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