Tom Homan was sitting across from what he believed were immigration contractors at a Cava restaurant in September 2024, before he became the Trump administration’s border czar, when one of them handed him a bag stuffed with $50,000 in cash. The men turned out to be undercover FBI agents.

Now, legal experts from across the political spectrum, as well as current Justice Department officials, are questioning why the Biden DOJ pursued the case in the first place.