Homeland Strategic Consulting Bribery

     I've quietly had a wild hair across my ass regarding Tom Homan, the so-called "Border Czar". He has that fat, soft, cruel face almost peculiar to latter-day fascists that just cries out for someone to Photoshop a black SS uniform below it and a Nuremberg Nazi rally as a background.

     He's a rare holdover from the Obama administration (God only knows what Obama was thinking when he hired Homan for immigration enforcement back in 2013). But under the first Trump administration, Homan was one of the loyal foot soldiers who'd carried out Stephen Miller's astoundingly sadistic family separation policy and carried out his duties with relish.

     So over the last eight months, I've been watching Homan bluster his way on one talk or news show or another, proudly boasting about playing his part in carrying out the "president's" agenda of Making America White Again, amazingly without the "Horst-Wessel-Lied" playing in the background on Fox.

     So, let's take a little stroll down Memory Lane, Dear Reader, shall we? Where was Tom Homan exactly one year ago today? Why, he was in West Texas accepting a $50,000 bribe, in cash, from FBI agents posing as businessmen. Yes, exactly one year ago today (you've gotta love the timing), Tom Homan waddled out of a meeting with his coat pocket bulging with $50,000 in flash money he'd just accepted from the FBI.

     How did Tommy Boy wind up on the FBI's radar? Well, the subject of an unrelated Bureau investigation revealed that Tom Homan was currently accepting bribes in exchange for steering government contracts their way if and when Donald Trump took back the White House. It was an old game Homan knew well. After all, until Inauguration Day, Homan owned a consulting group called Homeland Strategic Consulting, one that steered government contracts to those in the private immigration enforcement community (including GEO Group, the notorious private prison company).

     After the election, Homan announced he was shutting down HSC, saying he wanted to avoid the appearance of a conflict of interest. One would be amazed that he was able to keep a straight face until one realizes that, like all Nazis, Homan has no sense of humor and is physically incapable of smiling.

     So, the FBI continued their investigation even into late November when it became apparent that Trump stole yet another election, this time with Elon Musk's help. Once he was shoehorned back in the White House, he began assembling a kakistocracy that made his first Cabinet look like George Washington's by comparison. Things started to go south in the investigation when Kash Patel, after becoming FBI Director, began asking for a status check on the probe.

     Right after that, Trump's DOJ dropped it.

    Yeah, Trump drained the swamp, all right, then replaced the crocodiles with megalodons.

     All things considered, it's amazing that Homan was able to be bribed for such a paltry sum of money, considering the much vaster sums collected by Trump daily in bribes and protection racket money. It makes one think of the late Sen. Ted Stevens accepting bribes in the form of home renovations and a Laz-E-Boy chair or, during Iran Contra, Oliver North taking his bribes in snow tires.

      So, did Tom Homan commit a crime? Well, yes and no. Since Homan wasn't a government official a year ago, he can't be charged with bribery. Plus, if he didn't directly solicit the bribe (and there's no evidence yet that he had) then they can't charge him with bribery. But there also would've been possible conspiracy charges if Pam Bondi hadn't deep-sixed the investigation. 

     If Homan accepted the bribe in exchange for government contracts, then that's conspiracy to commit a crime and whether or not it actually took place is not a defense. For instance, to use the old analogy, if I plan to rob a bank then decide not to pull it off, I can still be charged with conspiracy to commit robbery. The anti bribery laws are no different.

     Naturally, this resulted in Homeland Security furiously denying the truth by claiming that it's (ho-hum) a "deep state" operation and (ho-hum) a partisan hit job and that there's no truth to the matter. The problem: Homan was videotaped by the Bureau accepting the $50,000 bribe (obviously, Bondi's goons at Justice have already erased it).  This isn't a Biden thing or a Merrick Garland thing- It was the FBI doing its job and they had the receipts until Bondi came in and 86'd any and every investigation into the swamp creatures of Donald Trump.

     All that remains to be seen is if Trump demands that $50,000 bribe from Homan for having the temerity to use his name to make a little coin on the side.