[ April 19, 2024 ]
Not content with having misused campaign funds in Minnesota for out-of-state travel, not content with having – apparently — married her own brother in order to commit immigration and student-loan fraud, not content with having been – apparently — married to one man at the same time as she declared on her tax returns, two years running, that she was married to another, not content with having committed adultery with her campaign consultant, to whom she paid unusually large sums, both when they were lovers and now that they are married to one another, llhan Omar continues to have a problem with “benjamins.” Those are the 100-dollar bills with Benjamin Franklin’s face on them; “benjamins” is Omar’s synecdoche for money, lots of it.
She famously used the phrase in attacking AIPAC, the American-Israeli Public Affairs Committee, accusing it of bribing politicians with money for their campaigns, in exchange for their support of Israel. She apparently did not realize two things: first, AIPAC does not make contributions to political campaigns, and second, a great many Americans, including political figures, support Israel out of conviction. No one is given money to be “pro-Israel.” I’m fairly sure that cannot be said for Saudi Arabia.
Now Rep. Ilhan Omar is on track to pay the political firm founded by her new husband more than $1 million by the end of 2020, campaign finance filings show.
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The New York Post has the story here:
In the first three months of this year, the Minnesota Democrat’s campaign paid the E Street Group $292,000 for advertising, fundraising, travel and other services, according to a federal campaign finance report filed Wednesday and obtained by the Star Tribune.
At that rate, the company would get $1.16 million from Omar’s campaign in 2020 — more than double the $523,000 it received for the whole of last year.
The firm was founded by Omar’s longtime consultant Tim Mynett, allegedly a former loverwhom she married last month. The congresswoman announced their nuptials on Instagram.
Their relationship attracted scrutiny in August, when The Post was first to report that Mynett’s then-wife, Beth, alleged in court papers that he walked out on their marriage after admitting to having an affair with Omar and declaring his love for her.
Both Omar, 38, and Mynett, 39 — who were each married to other people at the time — denied the affair.
The claim prompted a conservative watchdog group to file a complaint against Omar with the Federal Election Commission. The FEC has taken no public action in regard to the complaint.
Ilhan Omar’s ex allegedly learned of affair after walking in on her and lover in pajamas
It’s not illegal to put friends and family on the campaign payroll as long as the cash is for legitimate campaign expenses and paid at fair market value.
What kinds of payments did Tim Mynett’s firm receive in the past or now, from other clients? Was his small political consultancy group, which received almost all of its income in 2018, 2019, and 2020 from Ilhan Omar’s campaign, being “paid at fair market value”? How is it that the amount the firm received in 2019 is expected to double this year? Will Tim Mynett’s firm be doing twice as much work? Or has E Street Consultants suddenly become able to charge twice as much because of tthe superb quality of their 2019 work? Surely the Committee on Congressional Ethics needs to look into this, but given Ilhan Omar’s combative nature and the sheer chutzpah with which she lies – she firmly denied having an affair with Mynett, just a few months before they married — some of its Democratic members may be scared to take her on.
The freshman firebrand — who first hired Mynett’s firm during her 2018 congressional run — defended their business relationship in a series of tweets last month.
“My relationship with Tim began long after this work started. We consulted with a top FEC campaign attorney to ensure there were no possible legal issues with our relationship. We were told this is not uncommon and that no, there weren’t,” Omar tweeted.
“As a family, we are committed to the practice of joy, compassion and love in our politics. And we are giving ourselves the permission to be happy and hope others will as well.”
On track to paying her husband’s firm $1.16 million this year, Ilhan Omar is in effect paying herself. She stands to benefit from the enormous salary Tim Mynett is now receiving, out of all proportion to what he was making over many years, before Ilhan Omar became his client, then his lover, and then his wife.
While Omar has so far managed to avoid investigation by the Committee on Congressional Ethics, her fellow Muslim congresswoman and soulmate Rashida Tlaib is still under investigation. The OCE has noted that “Rep. Tlaib’s campaign committee, Rashida Tlaib for Congress, reported campaign disbursements that may not be legitimate and verifiable campaign expenditures attributable to bona fide campaign or political purposes. If Rep. Tlaib converted campaign funds from Rashida Tlaib for Congress to personal use, or if Rep. Tlaib’s campaign committee expended funds that were not attributable to bona fide campaign or political purposes, then Rep. Tlaib may have violated House rules, standards of conduct, and federal law.”
We already know that as a member of the Minnesota State Legislature, Ilhan Omar was found to have misused campaign funds on personal accounting expenses and out-of-state travel, and was required to pay back her campaign $3,500, and a fine of $500..
In June 2019, Minnesota’s CFB (Campaign Finance Board) found that Omar filed “tax returns for two years, stating she was married to one man when, in fact, she was married to another.”
So even before she came to Washington, Omar had managed both to misuse campaign funds while running for the state legislature, and to cheat on her taxes by claiming to be married to one man while still married to another. How much Omar saved by that lie, and whether she was allowed to “amend” her tax returns to reflect reality without a penalty, is not known.
And now, in Washington, where Congresswoman Ilhan Omar presumes to preach to others about morality, this smiling con artist, having paid penalties when caught back in Minneapolis, but so far managed to keep her Congressional seat, will this year likely be directing more than one million dollars in her campaign funds to her husband’s firm. All perfectly legal, of course, unless the Committee on Congressional Ethics decides that the “fair market value” of Mr. Mynett’s consulting services to Mrs. Mynett is not a million dollars, but a great deal less.
We’ll just have to wait and see. Ilhan Omar has a lot to answer for. So far she’s managed to slither away. But investigative reporters are on her trail. Let’s hope this turns out to be her annus horribilis.
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48 Comments
3 years ago
Hoping the people in Oomar’s district will acquire some brains and vote this POS out of office and gets prosecuted for campaign money shennaigans.
3 years ago
Reply to
Bret
Forget about that. Omar’s district is the U.S. jihad recruitment center. No kidding. It’s loaded with Somalian Muslims and the A.G. is Muslim, Keith Ellison. Voters keep voting in Muslims. It proves to others they are not racists or Islamohobics. They are very proud of their inclusiveness.
3 years ago
Reply to
tituspullo
….many, many of them are on entitlements….she just keeps telling them she’ll give them more free stuff.
However, she does have some pretty formidable challengers to her seat.
3 years ago
Reply to
Bret
Have you looked at the demographics of that thing’s district?
If one of them moved back to somaliland, it would raise the collective IQs of both countries.
3 years ago
Reply to
Achmed Mohandjob
Like Californication’s senators, Ill-han will have a permanent sinecure in her district for as long as she wants it.
There is a state law pending in the Californication legislature — to unilaterally suspend evictions for non-payment of rent for 15 months without any recourse possible to landlords across the state.
3 years ago
Reply to
MuhamMUDTheFakeProphet
That’s only fair. Do the municipalities and state waive property taxes?
3 years ago
Reply to
Achmed Mohandjob
LOL, best joke I’ve heard all day! Were you the official comedian of the Corps?
3 years ago
Reply to
Bret
Frankly, as a straight man, I wonder how can anybody get attracted to that beast if it is not for money?
3 years ago
Reply to
VTS
Hey, Bret,
Think.
Think of the difference between “lured” and “attracted”.
Before it died of old age, the little brain in my little head, was constantly attempting to lead me astray.
Bless that little dead head.
3 years ago
I wonder if there is a protection racket under there somewhere, too.
3 years ago
Reply to
bvaliant4him .
Yes it is a near 1400 year old one called islam. Tried and tested on the west since 632AD.
3 years ago
Reply to
Michelle
Yeah, jizra, I know, but I was thinking of a more American style one. Shoulda known better than to ask. After all, this is islame.
3 years ago
Reply to
Millionmileman
It’s already sharia lite here in commiefornia. We MUST wear a mask to go into a grocery store! (Except I didn’t just this last time…)
3 years ago
Reply to
bvaliant4him .
My brother, who despises California, but has to live with his son because he has become so infirm, said they have to wear a mask EVERYWHERE they go or they will be fined $1,000
3 years ago
Reply to
Dorrie_
Dorrie, I haven’t heard about any fines in my part of Californication for going without a face covering so maybe it’s his city or county enforcing this.
3 years ago
Reply to
MuhamMUDTheFakeProphet
I was thinking of putting that saying on a shirt, “I can’t breathe…” next to a picture of a surgical mask. I wonder what the “civil” rights activists would think of THAT?
3 years ago
Reply to
Dorrie_
Dorrie, I haven’t heard about any fines in my part of Californication for going without a face covering so maybe it’s his city or county enforcing this.
3 years ago
Reply to
Dorrie_
I went into the grocery store this morning without one. The kid at the door asked me if I had a mask. I told him I had a disability. He said “oh” and turned and walked away….I found out they cannot MAKE you wear one.
3 years ago
Reply to
bvaliant4him .
I met a bag boy at my supermarket who refused to wear a mask. His attitude was I don’t need that carp. I gotta admit I admired him for having that attitude when everyone else is lining up like sheep.
3 years ago
Nothing new there. More blatant than usual but then she is black and muslim so we all know that it is our fault
What will be crucial will be whether or not she goers to trial and is found guilty and gaoled. Does anyone know of any elected federal representative who has been gaoled in the last 30 years and especially a democrat one?
Until then it is all huffing and puffing.
3 years ago
Reply to
Michelle
Federal Campaign Finance Fraud is a very serious charge……and very warranted for this disgusting witch……Where is AG Barr?…..where is the FBI? Where is the Federal Election Commission?
If we leave off a decimal point on an IRS filing…..they are knocking on the door post haste.
I thought this was America…..equal justice for ALL…. guess not.
3 years ago
Reply to
ladywarrior
I’ll tell you where Barr is. Nowhere, which is the same place he is in doing NOTHING about the federal laws broken by BLM, the rioters and the violence all over US cities since the [unwarranted and horrifying] death of George Floyd.
3 years ago
As dumb as she is, she is playing the system too because NO ONE DOES ANYTHING ABOUT IT! What’s the hold up for not arresting her for her other crimes? Don’t tell me they are afraid of being called names? Barr, get your fat arse in gear and DO SOMETHING!
3 years ago
Reply to
felix1999
Fat Willy and his DOJ ARE doing something. They’re sweeping it all under the rug.
Lifting that rug and using a broom, at the very same time, is hard work.
3 years ago
Reply to
Achmed Mohandjob
Neither are doing that. They simply don’t talk about EVERYTHING they’re doing, not enough time to talk about it and do it at the same time. And while AG Barr might be overweight, I’m sure you aren’t absolutely PERFECT either. You might not be overweight, but you’re quite capable to pointing fingers at people who have an enormous amount of work on their plates. Try praying for them, rather than condemning them for their appearance – that goes a LONG way 🙂
3 years ago
Reply to
Dorrie_
….I kind of think they are waiting….usually people like her get emboldened and do worse and worse….then BAM! She’s being prep walked somewhere. That’s my pray.
3 years ago
Reply to
Dorrie_
Yes. LOL…that’s what I get for trying to do two things at the same time.
3 years ago
Reply to
Dorrie_
Barr was confirmed in February of 2019. How many criminal referrals did the DOJ Inspector General make, well over one year ago?
What was done with those criminal referrals? To date? NOTHING.
Evil is as evil does. I pray for the evil for them to change, as that is as heaping coals upon their head. However, evil that refuses to change, such as AG Barr ….
3 years ago
Reply to
Achmed Mohandjob
I don’t keep track, I just know he’s a good man and he’s doing his job. That being said, I’m VERY concerned about all the spending bills Trump has been signing after the FIRST one when he said, “Never Again!”
3 years ago
Reply to
Dorrie_
How do you know that “he’s a good man and he’s doing his job?” Do you frequently work with him?
I supported President Trump in his last election, both financially and with time. I have no intention of doing so, this time around. I will vote for him as he’s the lesser of many evils.
However, when I hear “promises kept” I become nauseated.
3 years ago
Reply to
Achmed Mohandjob
He spoke at length yesterday on ESPN and went into detail of things he’s doing. I’m comfortable with that.
More important to ME these days, is to keep focused on Yahweh because HE is in control. 🙂
3 years ago
Reply to
felix1999
…don’t make the mistake she is dumb……there are smart people….and then there are the criminally insane. As bold as she has been about all the criminal acts and social corruption…..SHE IS CRIMINALLY INSANE…..Calling AG BARR….exactly when were you going to investigate and arrest her?
3 years ago
Any legal action or prosecution against her would be considered racially motivated. She appears to be safe.
3 years ago
Whoever decide to bring Somalis here hates the United States.
3 years ago
Reply to
mjazzguitar
Both Bushs…..the Clintons….and then on steroids OBUMER….its been going on a long time. They are part of the coup that want to replace the educated white and black Americans…..with third world, uneducated, low IQ ones….easier to control and “rule” over them.
3 years ago
She’s just ONE of the “enemies within.”
3 years ago
With all that she has done, and is still doing, and with the information that is so readily available that a book has been published about her various schemes to play the system, and the various government investigations, nothing, and I mean NOTHING has come of anything. Its like she bought off the government or has it so intimidated that no government office will haul her scrawny behind before a grand jury, government committee, or to answer to government charges.
Everything she has done was seriously corrupt and playing the system. Before November, she has to be made to answer for what she has done and is doing, forcing her not to be able to run again and continue with her criminal enterprise.
3 years ago
Off the subject: Last night on “Life, Liberty, & Levin”….he had on two astounding Black persons that were the most intelligent people I’ve seen in a long time. Dr. Carol Swain and Dr. Wilfred Riley.
She’s got a new book out. And when you hear her back ground, you will admire her just for that. She’s also an adviser to President Trump.
Then Wilfred Riley has a book out called: HATE CRIME HOAX.
Both of them just blew me away with their knowledge and their remarks about what is going on today with Marxists taking over our country.
3 years ago
Reply to
ladywarrior
I saw that and completely agree … it’s all about Marxism. And one of them is the top adviser to Trump – his liberal son-in-law, Jared Kushner, who has been pushing Israel to divide the land for peace. We know what the Bible says about dividing the land and it is not good!
3 years ago
The kind of voters who support Iil-han could care less about these allegations or support them. As for her house husband at least he converted to islum which can help stave off critics like Farrakhan as to her marriage to a white devil.
3 years ago
Let’s hope they go after with the effort and zeal they keep going after Trump with. It is amazing to me that with all Trump’s business he has done literally around the globe that they cannot find ANY wrong doing. It is hard to find what is not there because we all know that if is WAS there, they would have joyously announced it!! Sorry Dems, and you too, Soros. Speak of the devil, let’s take a look at his financial dealings.
3 years ago
Is’nt this a BLATANT conflict of interest? We all are WELL AWARE of just what a POS criminal she truly is – But she is outta hand –
