Border Douche Tom Homan "paid thousands by a company making money from deportations" before joining the Trump Cabal
Tom Homan's financial ties to private prison locking up immigrants raise questions
New disclosure forms revealed by The Washington Post show Trump's border czar was paid thousands of dollars by a company making money from deportations before he joined the administration.
https://www.msnbc.com/top-stories/latest/trump-border-tom-homan-private-prison-immigrants-rcna209544
The Washington Post was the first to publish disclosure forms filed last week showing Homan earned at least $5,000 as a consultant for Geo Group over the two years before he joined Trumps second administration.
Before he joined the administration, border czar Tom Homan earned an undisclosed amount in fees consulting for a division of the Geo Group, one of two companies that operates the vast majority of the nations immigrant detention facilities, according to the disclosure, which was released last week. The filing, which has not been previously reported, did not specify what work Homan performed. The document said Geo paid him more than $5,000 during the two years preceding his government appointment in January. Ethics rules do not require any more specific disclosure, and the amount Homan received could be far higher.
Geo Group also gave $1 million dollars to the Make America Great Again PAC which backed Trumps 2024 presidential campaign. Last year, after Trump was elected, the companys CEO, Brian Evans, estimated that Geo Group could make an additional $400 million annually as a result of Trumps planned deportations. And indeed, the company is one of multiple private prison companies making a profit from locking up immigrants for the administration. So much so, that on a conference call earlier this year, the companys executive chairman said weve never seen anything like this before while referencing the speed with which the Trump administration has sought to procure contracts with Geo Group.
So the order of events is as follows: Tom Homan and Pam Bondi consult and lobby for Geo Group, Geo Group helps elect Trump in 2024, Homan and Bondi join Trump's administration in 2025, and then Trumps administration helps Geo Group make profits. At a minimum, that raises questions about a conflict of interest.