Top Minnesota Democrat Says Omar “Almost Certainly” Guilty of Marriage Fraud

A top Democrat in Minnesota has abandoned far-left Democrat Representative Ilhan Omar. The marriage-fraud allegation against her, Joe Radinovich wrote on X, is “almost certainly true.”

For years, Omar has been accused of marrying her brother to commit immigration fraud. Federal authorities are investigating that charge and another: that her age on immigration papers was a lie and that she was not a minor when she qualified for citizenship through her father.

Responding to the recent New York Times piece on Omar, Radinovich, a former member of the Minnesota House of Representatives, said that the Somali refugee’s boilerplate denials are false.

The Allegations

The Omar probe involves two main allegations: First, that she married her brother to keep him in the country, and second, that her father fibbed about her age on immigration papers.

As The New York Times observed, the marriage-fraud investigation began under President Barack Obama. The Biden administration let it drop, but also began an investigation into immigration fraud on her father’s and possibly her part. That investigation went nowhere as well.

The marriage-fraud accusation involved Omar’s marriage to Ahmed Nur Said Elmi in 2009. She divorced him in 2017.

When Obama’s FBI and Homeland Security Department officials looked into Omar’s shady nuptial history, they “found some evidence that it was fraudulent, current and former officials said,” the Times reported.

The case “stalled,” the Times continued, because the statute of limitations on the crime, which is five years, had passed.

The claims that Omar married her brother have dogged her for years. “She has long called it a right-wing conspiracy theory that federal officials debunked during her first race for elected office in 2016,” the Times continued.

Federal agents, however, have reopened the investigation, the Times reported:

They found evidence suggesting that Mr. Elmi and Ms. Omar were siblings, according to the six former and current officials familiar with the case. But, because prosecutors did not pursue the matter, the agents had limited investigative tools, the officials said.

The latest probe began when federal agents raided Omar’s home on October 12. During that raid, the agents seized critical DNA evidence that might prove Omar married her brother, the New York Post reported.

A federal prosecutors’ motion regarding the search warrant for Omar’s home also lists her under an alias.

“Before the Court are three Applications to unseal ex parte materials and proceedings related to a federal search warrant for the personal residence in the District of Columbia of Congresswoman Ilhan Nur Said Elmi, a/k/a Ilhan Abdullahi Omar,” the motion says.

And a British marriage certificate, the newspaper reported, might also make the connection. “Omar’s late father, Nur Omar Mohamed also went by the name Nur Said Elmi and was a prominent military commander in the Somali dictatorship, which millions fled from,” the newspaper reported.

The three key names in the probe are Omar’s, Ilhan Nur Said Elmi; her brother’s, Ahmed Nur Said Elmi; and her father’s, Nur Said Elmi.

Omar’s topsy-turvy marital resumé shows two marriages and divorces and a third walk down the aisle with political consultant Tim Mynett. Omar is not a one-man woman, and now has a reputation as a home-wrecker. Mynett was married to a prominent physician, 17 years his senior, in Washington, D.C., when Omar spotted the man who could become her husband. Both denied any adulterous affair, although the Daily Mail caught Myett and his Somali mistress shacked up in her apartment love den.

Mynett’s political consultancy serendipitously collected millions from Omar’s campaign. That raised legal questions about self-dealing given their intimate relationship.

Minnesota Democrat: Accusations True

“Democrats should understand that the allegation is almost certainly true — whatever conclusion they draw from that point could vary — and her denials calling it a right-wing, Islamophobic or racist conspiracy are almost certainly not,” Radinovich wrote on X over a link to the Times’s offering on October 29:

And then I’d be very, very careful about how I qualified on allegations around her finances — where her defense looks similar and where no meaningful questions have been answered publicly, and where any objective look at the evidence doesn’t look … great.

The reference to Omar’s finances apparently concerns the shifty congresswoman’s amendment to her legally required financial disclosure. Her and her husband’s net worth went from as much as $30 million to less than $100,000.

Also in question is a winery her husband owned that didn’t make wine. As well, Omar stands accused of knowing that a gang of Somalis defrauded the federal government out of $250 million in federal food assistance.

Another top Democrat, Briana Rose Lee, scolded Radinovich.

“Joe. You aren’t stupid,” she wrote:

You know this is a baseless and manufactured witch hunt. I’m actually surprised to see this from you. It’s a new low.

Replied Radinovich:

You’re right. I’m not stupid. I believe the Trump DOJ has next to no credibility and that it’s unclear to me the timing of the raid was appropriate — though it’s notable a DC judge signed off on it — but I’m pretty confident this specific allegation is true.