Overview
- ProPublica reporting documents that Paul Ingrassia, serving as the White House liaison to DHS and previously a lawyer for the Tate brothers, urged senior officials to give back electronics taken by U.S. Customs and Border Protection in Fort Lauderdale.
- Homeland Security Investigations examined the devices after the late‑February seizure, the items have not been returned, and it remains unclear whether a federal inquiry continues.
- Current and former DHS personnel expressed alarm at the outreach, with retired HSI assistant director John Tobon calling the contact an intimidation tactic unprecedented in his three decades of work.
- The brothers continue to face active criminal cases: Romanian prosecutors filed trafficking and rape charges beginning in 2023 with additional counts authorized in 2024, and the UK CPS authorized 21 charges in May 2025, with extradition ordered by Romanian courts but paused pending local proceedings.
- Separate from the legal developments, Andrew Tate has announced a boxing bout against Chase DeMoor in Dubai on December 20, 2025, promoted as The Fight Before Christmas.