Representative Ilhan Omar, the Somali refugee who represents Minnesota’s 5th congressional district, is married again.
This time, she married the man with whom she was having an adulterous affair that both denied.
Her latest husband is Tim Mynett, the Democrat political consultant whose company has collected a small fortune from Omar’s congressional campaign.
The 38-year-old Muslim Democrat announced the nuptials on her Instagram account.
Married Again
The Star-Tribune of Minneapolis reported the news today.
“Got married! From partners in politics to life partners, so blessed,” the Muslim congresswoman wrote, the newspaper reported. “A spokesman for Omar said the two also married in the Islamic faith.”
The newspaper noted that the social media item does not identify Mynett by name but it does feature his picture. The two are cuddling and showing off wedding bands.
The post has invited nearly 200,000 likes.
Whether Mynett’s ex-wife Beth is one of those likes is anyone’s guess. The accomplished medical doctor filed for divorce from the Democrat Don Juan after she discovered his affair with the beturbanned congresswoman.
And though the newly betrothed pair are smiling in the photo, they might not be smiling for long.
Omar faces multiple legal problems related to her past marriages, one of which was to her brother, highly credible reports allege, to commit immigration and student-loan fraud.
Omar’s also in trouble with the Federal Election Commission because of the cozy relationship between her campaign committee and her new “life partner’s” consultancy, E Street Group.
Fake Marriage?
As for the marriage to the brother, last month London’s Daily Mail published a report that quoted a close friend of Omar’s in Minneapolis, who flatly stated that she, Omar, married Ahmed Nur Said Elmi in 2009 to perpetrate immigration and student-loan fraud.
That marriage occurred after a marriage and divorce to another man, a marriage she says did not occur because she “never finalized the application.”
In 2011, she divorced Elmi and married the first man again, whom she recently divorced to marry Mynett.
Multiple convincing news reports demonstrate with little doubt that Omar and Elmi are, indeed, brother and sister. Omar’s father raised Elmi, and Elmi, Omar, and Omar’s first husband lived together in North Dakota, where Elmi and Omar were college students.
Thus did the FBI step into the matter.
In January, the New York Post reported that “two FBI agents held an hours-long meeting in Minnesota in mid-October with a concerned party who handed over a trove of documents regarding Omar’s 2009 marriage to Ahmed Nur Said Elmi, a source with knowledge of the event said.”
And that marriage, which Omar likely thought was long behind her and which invited a complaint to the House Ethics Committee from Judicial Watch, isn’t the Somali’s only trouble with the feds.
The affair with Mynett landed in the media after his jilted ex-wife filed for divorce in April. That filing, which said Mynett’s “more recent travel and long work hours now appear to be more related to his affair with Rep. Omar than with his actual work commitments,” inspired a complaint to the FEC, which says Mynett’s work for Omar was less about work and more about wooing.
Those payments would violate campaign-finance law, the complaint says, because if the campaign “reimbursed Mynett’s LLC for travel so that Rep. Omar would have the benefit of Mynett’s romantic companionship, the expenditures must be considered personal in nature.”
The campaign has paid Mynett’s consultancy “more than $500,000 last year for consulting, advertising, fundraising and travel,” the Star-Tribune reported in its dispatch on Omar and her newest husband.
Omar’s other deceits include filing fraudulent tax forms and state campaign-finance violations.
No Surprise
The Omar-Mynett nuptials are hardly a surprise. The pair denied the affair, but in October, the Daily Mail caught the two shacked up in Washington, D.C.
“Omar and Mynett are not only dating, but living together ‘on and off’ at a secret DC apartment, while plotting romantic vacations to Jamaica and making plans for a long-term future together,” the newspaper reported.
Most Americans won’t care about Omar’s shenanigans between the sheets, but her constituents back home are another matter.
More than a few are Somali Muslims — Minneapolis is a center for recruiting Somali Muslim terrorists — who might not look too kindly upon the adultery, a capital crime in Islam, that led to the marriage.
The penalty for zina, as unlawful sexual intercourse is known, is 100 lashes and stoning to death.
Photo: AP Images
R. Cort Kirkwood is a long-time contributor to The New American and a former newspaper editor.
