A White House spokeswoman denied on Monday that the president’s border czar, Tom Homan, accepted a bag with $50,000 in cash as part of an undercover F.B.I. investigation last September, contradicting news reports about the case.
F.B.I. agents working under cover made an audio recording of the September 2024 meeting in which Mr. Homan accepted the money in a bag from the fast-food chain Cava, The New York Times reported on Saturday.
On the tape, he appeared to agree to try to help the agents posing as businessmen get lucrative federal contracts related to border security in a possible second Trump administration, according to people who requested anonymity to describe details of the case.
The investigation was closed by the Trump Justice Department this year, frustrating some of the people who worked on it, these people said.
Asked by reporters what happened to the money that Mr. Homan received, the White House spokeswoman Karoline Leavitt on Monday rejected the published accounts and said President Trump remained fully supportive of his border czar.
“Mr. Homan never took the $50,000 that you’re referring to,” Ms. Leavitt said. “This was another example of the weaponization of the Biden Department of Justice against one of President Trump’s strongest and most vocal supporters in the midst of a presidential campaign.”
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