A watchdog group that has sounded the alarm about various picks for U.S. President-elect Donald Trump’s next administration released a Monday report focused on the consulting and nonprofit work of incoming immigration official Tom Homan.
Homan, who was acting director of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) during Trump’s first term, is set to serve as “border czar,” a post that does not require Senate confirmation.
The new analysis by Accountable.US details how Homan’s role as border czar could present serious conflicts of interest with his private consulting firm.
“Homan founded Homeland Strategic Consulting LLC,” the report explains, “a private consulting firm which touts Trump’s endorsement, claims to have secured ‘tens of millions of dollars of federal contracts’ for clients, and has taken over $83,000 from Jim Lamon, a failed U.S. Senate candidate who was indicted alongside Trump lawyers Rudy Giuliani and John Eastman in Arizona’s fake electors case.”
