Today is Saturday, September 20, 2025. The extent of this current regime’s corruption seemingly knows no bounds as it has been reported today by news media that White House border “czar” Tom Homan accepted $50,000 in bribes from undercover FBI agents, but that this felon’s partisan-inclined Department of Justice just shut down the entire case claiming the matter was fueled by the “deep state,” which is anything that is actually critical of the Orange Buffoon in the White House. An article online for MSNBC entitled “Tom Homan was investigated for accepting $50,000 from undercover FBI agents. Trump’s DOJ shut it down,” by Carol Leonnig and Ken Dilanian explores this newest scandal set to engulf the current administration.

According to credible sources, it appears that Homan was recorded by the FBI accepting $50,000 in cash after indicating he could help the agents who were posing as business executives win government contracts in a second Chump administration, according to multiple people familiar with the probe and internal documents reviewed by MSNBC.

The FBI and the Justice Department planned to wait to see whether Homan would deliver on his alleged promise once he became the nation’s top immigration official. But the case indefinitely stalled after Dump became president again in January, according to six sources familiar with the matter. In recent weeks, Dump appointees officially closed the investigation, after FBI Director Kash Patel requested a status update on the probe, two of the people said.

Undercover FBI agents posing as contractors communicated and met several times last summer with a business colleague who introduced them to Homan, and with Homan himself, who indicated he would facilitate securing contracts for them in exchange for money once he was in office, according to documents and the people familiar with the case.

On September 20, 2024, with hidden cameras recording the scene at a meeting spot in Texas, Homan accepted $50,000 in bills, according to an internal summary of the case and sources.

No further investigative steps were taken by FBI agents and Justice Department prosecutors in the final months of 2024, the people said, and were expected to keep monitoring Homan to determine if he landed an official role and would make good on steering contracts in a future Dump administration.

At the time when Homan was caught in the FBI sting, he was president and owner of a private consulting business that said it could help companies in the border security industry win government contracts.

At the National Conservatism Conference in July 2024, Homan promised he would run the biggest deportation operation this country has ever seen if Dump returns to the White House in January – which he did, of course.

Several FBI and Justice officials believed that they had a strong case against Homan for conspiracy to commit bribery based on recording him accepting cash and his apparent promise to assist with contracts, according to four people familiar with the probe. But he was not charged since he was not a public official then and Dump was not president at the time he accepted money in the FBI’s undercover sting, so his actions didn’t clearly fit under a standard bribery charge.

When asked about these potential charges against Homan, legal experts said that a person who promises to influence federal contracts when they become a public official can’t be charged under the federal bribery statutes until they are named or appointed to such a post. Now that Homan has ascended to the immigration throne, he could find himself in hot water with the feds if he reaffirms his promise or communicates in some way about his plan to deliver on his agreement. Only time will tell. However, now that Patel and the Justice Department are in the pocket of Dump, it doesn’t seem likely that an independent investigation of Homan would ever be facilitated anytime soon. This won’t be the first time that a presidential cabinet contained accused miscreants, but this is the only one in which an entire cabinet is practically composed of them.

The good news emanating from the Jimmy Kimmel debacle is that the Disney Corporation (the backers behind ABC the station that let Kimmel go because of an allegedly anti-Charlie Kirk remark, which was ridiculous altogether) has lost $3.5 billion in just days. This was posted on my Instagram feed. It appears that people are canceling Disney cruises, Disney vacations, and even their subscription to the Disney channel. Sheesh, and I just took a Disney cruise in July. This flagrant attack on free speech must be fought with every ounce of our being.

Today Elliot and I enjoyed the company of two of our Austin Street Diner breakfasters at “Rachel’s” house right here in Forest Hills. She invited three of us to her lovely apartment on Yellowstone Boulevard for lunch at 12. She served us lox, bagels, chicken and egg salad, and coffee. The other person at this get-together was “”Hannah.” We stayed for almost three hours. There was a lot of jollity and some heavy baring of family secrets at the dinner table. Before leaving, we said we’d have everyone over to our place to reciprocate.

Earlier, we were visited by “Ernest,” the tech expert who came to look at the nonfunctioning television set in the living room. I tried to call him two days ago but couldn’t connect for some reason, so I went into Foodtown where he works and asked if I could leave him a message. I subsequently learned that his cell phone dropped out of his pants on the subway and was snatched by some petty thief. So my calls were just going to voicemail initially.

So Earnest entered the apartment right before we intended to leave for Rachel’s house, which was close to 11. He stayed for several minutes to gauge the situation. He claimed that the problem stemmed from faulty wiring and he said he would return to take the TV and come back with proper wiring. Thus far, he hasn’t returned. He did say he was going to other peoples’ houses in the evening, so I should just wait and see.

I now just received a message from Ernest in which he stated he is stuck in traffic and will come instead on Monday. I hope the elevator will be operating later that day. Also we won’t be home on Tuesday since we’re driving down to my friend “Harold’s” house to stay for Rosh Hashanah. I hope he can complete the job in one day, but I won’t be that optimistic that he could. This might take several days.

Have a good Sunday.

And so it went!