Representative Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) has finally learned that her congressional district is not a Third World kleptocracy like the one from which she was rescued.
The radical Somali leftist and her campaign cut ties with husband Tim Mynett’s consulting firm, which means the cozy self-dealing that funneled campaign funds to the company is over.
Of course, she waited to end the cash bonanza until Mynett’s company had collected almost $3 million.
Nothing, of course, will happen to the Muslim leftist, even if she does finally understand that graft could get her in trouble.
We Did Nothing
The news that Omar, a refugee pulled from African squalor thanks to U.S. taxpayers, surfaced in the Minnesota Reformer.
The self-dealing ended with her reelection, the political website reported, and she “praised the work of her husband Tim Mynett’s firm, E Street Group.”
Of course, she had good reason to keep the cash flowing to the hubby’s consulting firm:
She also suggested that the onslaught of spending in her primary race and the general election are reasons why she did not cut ties sooner with the firm, whose co-owner is Will Hailer, a former staffer to Attorney General Keith Ellison.
“While many of our close supporters know these two well and have recommended we keep them on — I want to make sure that anybody who is supporting our campaign with their time or financial support feels there is no perceived issue with that support,” she wrote….
“Because of Will and Tim’s decades of combined knowledge and experience in the (5th District), and the work they had done to prepare us for re-election — where our primary and general opponents spent a record-setting $14 million against us — we couldn’t part ways with this team after we got married,” she wrote recently.
Omar claims the self-dealing was legal and above board.
Maybe, but it’s self-dealing nonetheless because she is married to the man who runs the firm her campaign paid. That means Omar benefited personally. Her campaign added wealth to her marital property.
In October, the Washington Free-Beacon — the only publication that seems interested in keeping an eye on Congress’ Queen of Graft — reported that Omar “funneled an additional $1.1 million to her husband’s company, bringing her total payments to the firm to $2.7 million for the election cycle.”
Continued the Free Beacon:
Omar’s campaign filings … show that she sent $1.1 million more to the E Street Group, a political consulting firm owned by her husband, Tim Mynett. The payments account for nearly 70 percent of the $1.6 million Omar’s campaign has disbursed between July 23 and the end of September. They have helped cover advertisements, consulting, travel expenses, and production costs.…
With the $1.1. million in new payments, the firm has now received a total of $2.7 million from Omar’s campaign for the 2020 elections.
One Complaint After Another
Omar’s shady dealings, not least her role in wrecking Mynett’s first marriage, have invited numerous legal complaints.
In September, the Foundation for Civil Accountability and Trust filed an ethics complaint that accused the Somali refugee of not disclosing income from her “memoir,” the estimated royalties for which neared $200,000.
Of course, Omar’s spokesman denied wrongdoing.
Last year, the Federal Election Commission sent her a demand letter to explain problems with her campaign-finance reports. Authorities in Minnesota dinged her for violating state campaign-finance law.
But those are only financial difficulties. Omar faces credible but never-to-be-resolved charges that she committed immigration fraud by marrying her brother. That also is the subject of a formal complaint to the Ethics Committee.
As for the marriage to Mynett, the pair denied reports of their adulterous affair until they finally married in March. Beth Mynett, an accomplished physician, files for divorce last year. The divorce papers triggered a complaint to the FEC from the National Legal and Policy Center.
And just as the oft-married Omar helped wreck Mynett’s first marriage, she wants to wreck the country as well.
In July, she said she wants to “tear down systems of oppression that exist in housing, in education, in health care, in employment, [and] in the air we breathe.”
H/T: The Daily Caller
