We were hoping that Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MPLS) would have made an appearance at yesterday’s meeting of the Minnesota state House Fraud prevention committee.
The timing would have been fantastic, as the story of her 3,500 percent “accounting error” that reduced her net worth from $30 million to a mere $95,000 continues to reverberate.
She had been invited to attend, but did not respond and did not appear or send a surrogate to answer committee questions about her role in the Feeding Our Future fraud.
Instead, the committee played a two-minute video shot by Rep. Omar herself back in 2020. Omar explains (in Somali, with English subtitles) her role in sponsoring the MEALS Act, which opened up the federal child nutrition program to private companies such as her host for the video, the Safari Restaurant of south Minneapolis.
If you recall the details of the scandal, thanks to Omar’s MEALS Act, Safari became Minnesota’s largest non-school-based food distributor under her waiver, taking in more than $12 million from FY 2021-2022.
Safari’s owner, Salim Said, is now a convicted felon for stealing from her MEALS Act program. Two of Said’s business partners donated to Rep. Omar’s congressional re-election campaign.
Fox News reports,
MN lawmaker takes action to get answers on Omar’s alleged fraud ties after she skips key hearing: ‘Ghosted us’
Newsmax picked up on the story of her nonappearance, reporting,
Minnesota state lawmakers accused Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., of taking part in a scheme that stole more than $250 million in federal funds.
The allegations surfaced during a fraud oversight hearing Tuesday led by the GOP-controlled Minnesota House Fraud Prevention and State Agency Oversight Policy Committee.
The Washington Examiner appears to have been out first with the story.
