Ethics Complaint Filed Against Ilhan Omar For Alleged Fraud
By James Barrett
Judicial Watch announced on Tuesday that it has filed an ethics complaint against Democratic Rep. Ilhan Omar (MN) with the House of Representatives Office of Congressional Ethics for potential immigration, marriage, tax, and student loan fraud.
In press release posted Tuesday, the government watchdog announced that it has submitted “a hand-delivered ethics complaint to Chairman of the U.S. House of Representatives Office of Congressional Ethics David Skaggs calling for a full investigation into potential crimes tied to allegations that Rep. Ilhan Omar may have married her biological brother.”
Omar, who is one of the four members of the so-called “Squad” of far-left freshman Democratic congresswomen embroiled in a public feud with President Trump, has been the subject of a series of reports claiming immigration and marriage fraud.
In a statement included in the release, Judical Watch President Tom Fitton says the evidence that Omar may have violated the law is “overwhelming” and that the House is obligated to “urgently investigate and resolve the serious allegations of wrongdoing” by the freshman congresswoman.
In the complaint (full text below), Fitton states that “substantial, compelling and, to date, unrefuted evidence has been uncovered that Rep. Ilhan Omar may have committed the following crimes in violation of both federal law and Minnesota state law: perjury, immigration fraud, marriage fraud, state and federal tax fraud, and federal student loan fraud.”
“The evidence developed against Rep. Omar was the result of a three-year-long investigation in both the United States and the United Kingdom by [David] Steinberg and his investigative reporter colleagues Preya Samsundar and Scott Johnson,” the complaint reads. “It is supported by information gathered from public records, social media postings, genealogy databases, computer forensic analysis, unaltered digital photographs, discussions between the investigative reporters and the subjects of the investigation themselves, and information supplied by confidential sources within the Somali-American community.”
Among the claims presented in Steinberg’s investigative report is that Omar married her alleged biological brother, Ahmed Nur Said Elmi, “in order to assist his emigration to the United Stated from the United Kingdom,” Fitton states. That alleged immigration fraud scheme may have helped Elmi secure federally backed student loans so he could attend North Dakota State University along with Omar, he writes.
The complaint also details that the State of Minnesota Campaign Finance and Public Disclosure Board “has already determined that Rep. Omar violated state campaign finance laws for improper use of campaign funds” and that she submitted “joint” tax returns in 2014 and 2015 “with a man who was not her husband, named Ahmed Hirsi, while she was actually married to Ahmed Elmi.”
Below is the complete text of the ethics complaint:
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