Avi Asher-Schapiro
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Journalist @propublica | say hello on signal: aaschapiro.20 | email: [email protected]
Washington, DC
Joined March 2013
Mass deportation is big business: MSNBC reported Border Czar Tom Homan took $50K in a bag from FBI agents posing as contractors. Now, we are revealing new details of Homan's business connections—& the firms paying for a chance to get close to him. https://t.co/oaos50bqax
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A Pennsylvania businessman who had Tom Homan on his payroll led companies to believe his connections to the future border czar could help advance their bids for government work, industry executives...
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Thanks to @KatiePhang for having me on to chat about Tom Homan's private sector ties & how mass deportation is becoming a big business opportunity. Full video here: https://t.co/Ydxr92V91H Our investigation here:
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A Pennsylvania businessman who had Tom Homan on his payroll led companies to believe his connections to the future border czar could help advance their bids for government work, industry executives said. https://t.co/8FQiSrm0tL
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DOJ just seized ~0.06% of the total bitcoin supply form a pig butchering operation - seizure is valued at $15 billion. Does this go into the Bitcoin strategic reserve now? https://t.co/6ESErRxwm0
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BROOKLYN, NY - An indictment was unsealed today in federal court in Brooklyn charging Chen Zhi, also known as “Vincent,” the founder and chairman of Prince Holding Group (Prince Group), a multinati...
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JD Vane tells @ThisWeekABC that inquiring about Border Czar Tom Homan taking $50,000 in cash from undercover FBI agents in exchange for facilitating government contracts is a "left wing rabbit hole." https://t.co/uocGJOQDNC
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Vice President JD Vance and ABC's George Stephanopoulos brawled over Tom Homan and the $50,000 he allegedly accepted from undercover FBI agents last year.
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Marc Benioff, who once donated to Democrats, told @hknightsf that he thinks Trump should send the National Guard into San Francisco. “I fully support the president,” he said. “I think he’s doing a great job.” https://t.co/F1i7ZW20LO
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Mr. Benioff, the Salesforce C.E.O. and owner of Time magazine, once supported Hillary Clinton and a business tax for homeless services. Now he’s fully behind Donald Trump.
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In April, Musk shared a post with a wild claim: DOGE had uncovered a program that funded Taliban leaders. But what DOGE had actually done was....expose the existence of sensitive Afghanistan program. And that prompted a Taliban crackdown in Kabul. https://t.co/ceBko3lATv
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Afghan scholar Mohammad Halimi, who fled the Taliban in 2021, had worked to help U.S. diplomats understand his homeland. Then DOGE put his family’s lives at risk by exposing his sensitive work for a...
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Thanks to @KatiePhang for having me on to chat about Tom Homan's private sector ties & how mass deportation is becoming a big business opportunity. Full video here: https://t.co/Ydxr92V91H Our investigation here:
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Whitehouse: “Are you saying that they did not deliver $50,000 in cash to Mr. Homan?” Bondi: “The investigation of Mr. Homan was subjected to a full review by the FBI agents, by DOJ prosecutors. They found no evidence of wrongdoing.” Whitehouse: “That's a different question.
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Newly unsealed testimony marks the first time direct Chinese investment in SpaceX has been disclosed, raising new questions about foreign ownership interests in one of America’s most important military contractors. https://t.co/hC2kpo9Fwi
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The newly unsealed testimony marks the first time direct Chinese investment in the company has been disclosed, raising new questions about foreign ownership interests in one of America’s most...
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Democracy Forward is suing the Trump admin for failing to release an audio recording of Tom Homan accepting a bag of cash from undercover FBI agents
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Although Tom Homan has repeatedly said he recused himself from any “involvement, discussion, input, or decision of any future government contracts,” ProPublica obtained records showing he has had at least some involvement in contracting conversations. https://t.co/rTTsOg7L3B
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A Pennsylvania businessman who had Tom Homan on his payroll led companies to believe his connections to the future border czar could help advance their bids for government work, industry executives said. https://t.co/ObeBoktcht
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New via @AASchapiro @micarosenberg @JeffErnsthausen “…companies vying for a slice of the $45 billion Congress has allocated for immigration detention work had hired Sowell because he had led them to believe his connections to Homan would help their chances” for winning govt work
We compared Tom Homan's financial disclosure from 2017 & 2025. Homan's private sector work transformed his finances—his disclosed net worth could be as much as $9M. Meanwhile: firms & consultants he worked w/are looking to cash-in on mass deportation: https://t.co/oaos50bqax
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Now that Tom Homan is border czar, his former business associate Charles Sowell is continuing to work with companies actively seeking to land a chunk of the $45 billion Congress approved to spend on immigration detention. https://t.co/1bmE1DtjOE
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NEW: Inside the push to cash in on the Trump administration’s deportation campaign https://t.co/fgMZFKD57c
@AASchapiro @JeffErnsthausen @micarosenberg
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Important reporting. How Companies Sought Connections to Border Czar Tom Homan — ProPublica
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We compared Tom Homan's financial disclosure from 2017 & 2025. Homan's private sector work transformed his finances—his disclosed net worth could be as much as $9M. Meanwhile: firms & consultants he worked w/are looking to cash-in on mass deportation: https://t.co/oaos50bqax
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New: In the lead-up to Trump’s second term, a PA businessman hired Tom Homan as a consultant and said he could put together a group of companies wanting to get in line to win contracts for a massive immigration enforcement plan, sources said.
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NEW: This story by @AASchapiro @JeffErnsthausen and me looks inside several tent companies push to cash in on the Trump administration's deportation campaign and how they hired a consultant with ties to Tom Homan who would become the border czar
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