An led top agency officials to bypass typical security clearance procedures, a new report claims.
Homan’s status as target of a bribery investigation by FBI agents - who allegedly recorded him accepting $50,000 in cash from operatives posing as businessmen - was passed to Emil Bove, days before his appointment as acting deputy attorney general in early January 2025, an revealed Tuesday.
Bove, formerly Trump’s personal attorney, served as a top liaison between the government and the transition before he himself joined the DOJ.
Bove and other top members of Trump’s transition team worked to ensure that the FBI investigation didn’t cause hiccups in Homan’s background check process when the information reached them in early January, days before the inauguration and weeks after it typically would have come up in the background clearance process. The delay, according to MS NOW, was due to Trump’s team not submitting Homan and other incoming officials’ names to the FBI to begin the background check process until December 2024, a month later than usual.
Homan eventually was hired by the administration as the White House border czar, officially styled as the “White House Executive Associate Director of Enforcement and Removal Operations”. According to MS NOW, it remains unclear how Homan obtained a security clearance after FBI agents believed that he was not able to pass a background check.
has asked the DOJ and DHS for comment on Homan’s security check process.
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