Natalie Kittroff

That's a pretty big tip.

Yeah.

So these agents weren't initially fishing for anything related to Tom Holman.

They weren't looking at him at that time.

Wow.

Just to put us in time here, we're in 2023.

We know Tom Holman as the former ICE director in the first Trump administration, this longtime border official.

He actually served in the Obama administration, but he's not in government at this point, right?

Right.

He's widely seen as a likely member of a future Trump administration.

He's saying he's going to be there.

And there's this sense that a lot of money is going to be thrown at the area that he's going to be involved in, in border enforcement.

OK, so back to the investigation.

What happens next?

Do we know exactly what he says?

Devlin, do we have any specific information about that?

Right.

I guess the assumption here is that this is like a down payment for future services that he could potentially render, correct?

Devlin, does that help explain a question I've had about all this, which is $50,000 is a lot of money, but it also doesn't feel like enough for someone like Homan to do something this risky that could really jeopardize his career.

Right.