Trump's border czar skipped background check – so bribery probe went unnoticed

The Department of Justice tried to warn Donald Trump's transition team in the days before his inauguration that one of the president-elect's allies was not suitable for a senior government position, but those detailed and specific concerns were apparently ignored.

A small group of career DOJ lawyers felt an urgency to notify the transition team that Tom Homan, who often campaigned with Trump and publicly boasted that he would lead his mass deportation campaign, was the subject of an ongoing bribery investigation...