According to recent campaign filings, Representative Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) funneled another $1.1 million to her husband’s firm, bringing the total for this election cycle up to $2.7 million.
The filings released by the Omar campaign show that the congresswoman sent over $1.1 million to the E Street Group, the political consulting firm of her husband, Tim Mynett. Payments to the E Street Group make up 70 percent of the $1.6 million her campaign disbursed between July 23 and the end of September. The expenditures have largely been for advertisements, consulting, travel expenses, and production costs.
The E Street Group is the highest-paid vendor from Omar’s campaign. Prior to marrying Mynett, the congresswoman denied being romantically involved with him, as he was still married to another woman and she claimed to not be separated from her now-former husband, Ahmed Hirsi.
As the Free Beacon notes:
Omar has faced criticism on a number of issues since she entered Congress in 2018. Among other things, her lack of transparency about her past marriages has come under fire, and the Minnesota Campaign Finance Board has ordered her to repay thousands for a campaign finance violation.
She now faces a complaint for potentially running afoul of House ethics rules in relation to an advance she received for her memoir.
The Foundation for Accountability and Civil Trust filed a complaint asking the House Ethics Committee to investigate Omar’s failure to report hundreds of thousands of dollars’ worth of book advance. House rules prohibit members from receiving advances, but the Ethics Committee has told members they may receive royalties, which are based on actual book sales.
Additionally, The Minnesota Campaign Finance Board found last year that Omar improperly used campaign money to fund her personal travel. The board ordered Omar to reimburse her campaign for the expenses, which totaled nearly $3,500. She was also slapped with a $500 penalty.
The previous year, 2018, Omar found herself forced to reimburse thousands of dollars in speaking fees (in violation of Minnesota state house rules), in what the Minneapolis Star Tribune called “a pattern of carelessness and/or self-dealing with legally restricted funds.”
Then there’s the matter of Omar’s alleged former marriage to her own brother for the purpose of committing immigration fraud.
The New American has previously reported extensively about the large amount of evidence suggesting that a former husband of Omar, Ahmed Nur Said Elmi, is actually her brother, whom she married in order to help him immigrate to the United States.
In a 2013 tweet she eventually deleted, Omar called her father “Nur Said.” Under Somali naming practices, Somali children are usually given a three-part name. The first name is a chosen name. The middle name traditionally is the first name of the child’s father. The last name is the child’s paternal grandfather’s first name.
In this system, Ahmed Nur Said Elmi’s given name would be Ahmed and his father’s name would be Nur Said.
As Alpha News notes, a 2016 City Pages piece on Omar by Cory Zurowski identified her father as “Nur Said Elmi Mohamed.” But just a day later, the article was revised and Omar’s father’s name changed to the commonly-used Nur Omar Mohammed.
Omar and Hirsi had been together from 2002-2008 and they reunited after Omar’s separation from Elmi in 2011. Hirsi is the father of all the congresswoman’s children.
Despite the fact that Omar and Hirsi were not legally married in 2014 and 2015, they jointly filed their taxes together in those years — a finding by the Minnesota Campaign Finance and Public Disclosure Board that the Omar campaign attempted to suppress in 2016.
Omar is well-known as an extreme leftist and is a member of the freshman group of progressives known as “The Squad,” which also includes Representatives Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.), Rashida Tlaib (D-Mich.), and Ayanna Pressley (D-Mass.).
At his recent rally in Ocala, Florida, President Trump alluded to the allegations surrounding Omar.
“If you look at the House with Pelosi, it’s like they hate Israel, and they believe in Omar who came in here and married her brother or something, and came in illegally,” he said. “Come on Justice, let’s go Justice, Department of Justice.”
Yet considering Omar won her reelection primary handily and is poised to likewise win the general election comfortably, it appears the shroud of scandal is no impediment to a socialist getting elected in blue Minnesota.
