The Minnesota Campaign Finance and Public Disclosure Board have ruled that Rep. Ilhan Omar (D) repeatedly violated campaign finance law by using campaign funds to pay for personal expenses while serving on the state legislature in 2016 and 2017.
The Board found that Omar used the funds for personal out-of-state travel and for help in filing joint tax returns for 2014 and 2015. The phrase ‘joint tax returns’ will become much more important as you’ll see below.
She has been ordered to personally reimburse the campaign for just under $3,500. In addition, she must pay a $500 civil penalty for using campaign funds to pay for a trip to Florida, where she received an honorarium at a conference.
“Rep. Omar must personally reimburse the Omar committee $3,469.23,” the Board report concludes. “This reimbursement payment is the total amount of campaign funds that were used for purposes not permitted by statute in 2016 and 2017. Rep. Omar must provide documentation within 30 days from the date of this order showing the deposit of the reimbursement into the Omar committee’s account.”
Minnesota Campaign Finance & Public Disclosure Board has released findings into @IlhanMN ‘s shady spending practices in response to state Rep. Steve Drazkowski’s complaints. She has been ordered to pay about $4,000 in reimbursements & fines, plus file amended disclosures. /1
— Michelle Malkin (@michellemalkin) June 6, 2019
Hmm, maybe she was on to something when she tweeted “it’s all about the Benjamins.”
How It All Started
The findings are a result of a pair of complaints filed by Minnesota GOP State Rep. Steve Drazkowski who alleged that Omar had improperly used campaign funds for her own use.
“I had observed a long pattern,” Drazkowski said after filing the complaints. “Representative Omar hasn’t followed the law. She’s repeatedly trampled on the laws of the state in a variety of areas, and gotten by with it.”
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That much seems to have been confirmed … but wait!
There Might Be More
Several people noted a bombshell in the report that is being overlooked by the media.
Omar, according to the findings, filed joint tax returns with her current husband, Ahmed Hirsi, in 2014 and 2015. What makes this problematic is that she was still engaged in a civil marriage with Ahmed Nur Said Elmi up until 2017. She married Hirsi in 2018.
Fox News reports: “Tax experts say the IRS only permits joint filings if a couple is in a state that legally recognizes the couple as married.”
The report states that @IlhanMN and Ahmed Hirsi filed joint tax returns in 2014 and 2015.
Yet they were not married. @IlhanMN was married to Ahmed Nur Said Elmi from 2009-2017.
According to both federal and MN law, this is illegal. (3/x)
— David Steinberg 🧔🏻 (@realDSteinberg) June 6, 2019
“A sitting congresswoman may have filed EIGHT YEARS of fraudulent, felonious, tax returns,” Steinberg added.
Conservative commentator Michelle Malkin asked her readers, ” Time to get federal IRS officials involved?”
It will be interesting to watch Nancy Pelosi dismiss this as nothing more than Omar being ignorant – you know, like she did when defending her anti-Semitism?
Paraphrasing Pelosi: Perhaps Omar just ‘has a different experience in the use of [tax laws]’ and ‘doesn’t understand that some of them are fraught with [penalties] that she didn’t realize.’
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Pack that critter on a plane and fly her back to wherever Obama flew her in from!
I do believe that is called “Fraud”. I do believe she has comitted a felony by falsifying her tax returns. Uh oh, you’re in super deep, deep, bacon stripes. Okay, I am going to ask Santa Claus to please give me an early Christmas present, which is to see her in prison for 20 yrs. And she still is running her mouth. Well, that’s one terrorist taken care of the legal way. Maybe Al Capone’s ghost can talked to her about not lying on your tax returns.
Taquiyya dictates that Muslims are allowed to lie, steal, do anything to prevent the the truth coming out, that leaves Islam in a negative light. That’s why no Muslim can be trusted in a government or leadership role, and another reason why Muslims and democrats get along so well. They are both trained to lie.
What about the worst crime of all which she commited? IMMIGATION FRAUD. She married her brother to get into the United States. She should be deported immediately and never again be allowed to enter the United States.
You ask how she could ever get elected in the USofA? Her district (Flint, MI) is mostly Muslim. You may ask how that could happen. Thanks to Teddy Kennedy.
It’s disturbing to know democrats, supported by a corrupt mainstream media, are no better (actually worse because there’s no honor in the democrats or their media supporters) than the mafia.
But she’s Muslim and Muslims can marry up to 4 wives….oh, but wait, NOT husbands! Oh there is also this thing called Reynolds v United States (1878) in which the US Supreme Court ruled that “religious duty is not a defense against criminal complaint” (the case also was about polygamy and the Supreme Court ruled that making polygamy illegal did not violate religious freedom even when polygamy was REQUIRED by Mormon doctrine at the time…
Nothing will ever happen to Omar. The Dems protect their own because they are all criminals and liars. When are people going to wake up and learn? Soon it is going to be manadatory that you are a criminal to be elected to a government office. It is the Dems who want people in prison to vote.
Paraphrasing Pelosi: Perhaps Omar just ‘has a different experience in the use of [tax laws]’ and ‘doesn’t understand that some of them are fraught with [penalties] that she didn’t realize.’
That being the case she can be shown to be unfit to serve in congress as well as being a criminal! HANG her for treason!
Since childhood I have been told that “ignorance of the law is no excuse for breaking the law.”
She ought to be in jail.
Helps me Despise her even more now. BTW, Good Catch !!!
Why does she only have to payback the amount and NO FINES? Any one of us “little” people would have thousands of dollars of fines added on and possibly face jail time! Oh, I forgot, she’s a politician and a minority so she’ll get off just making restitution…silly me.
As a Minnesotan, yes….if she was not legally married to the man with whom she jointly filed taxes, it is time to get the IRS involved for a full and complete tax audit of Omar’s tax returns.
And…on a different subject…I find it remarkable that MN went “blue” in 2016, when only 11 out of 50 countys went blue….most of MN went “red”, and President Trump only lost mN by approximately 44,635 votes…..and the vast majority of the “blue” counties were in the southern metro area where the sanctuary cities are located. I find it odd that no recount was demanded….and would LOVE to know how it was insured that all voting was legal!
$173,000 yearly salary in the Legistrative Branch and she’s ignorant of law??
IRS penalties for making fraudulent or false claims and/or preparing and filing a false claim include imprisonment of up to 5 years. That’s one way to get her anti-Semitic bigoted behind out of Congress…
This is chicken feed compared to the violations of her illegal election to congress.
:-)
A “wrist slap?” Why aren’t the people of Minnesota doing a “recall” on this criminal? Are they so scared or are they completely reduced to “dhimmitude?” The US is losing states like flies – California, Oregon, Washington, Colorado, N. Mexico, Illinois, Minnesota, Michigan, and the New England states.
Cant wait to hear the calls for her resignation….. Oh wait you wont she is entitled to Democratic Privileged
The picture is very clear now, Omar and Tlaib are Muslims and female so nothing will happen for they will scream racism and Islamphobia! But wait–what about their Sharia BS, does that allow them to be crooks without any penalty?
Nothing like felonies in taxes and bigamy to help make the world go round. Since she is a democrat I bet she doesnt do time.
She didn’t understand the tax laws…although she was helping to write them. Apparently she didn’t understand how to spend it but no problem in raising it. Wonder how many members of the United States Congress are illegally spending campaign money. I wonder how so many members of Congress, while drawing a very good salary, but with serious living expenses, leave Congress many times richer than when they arrived.
It’s been said and proving that she’s not legally eligible to be in our government ….she should be removed from any and all committees and from our government. …..she should be put in Gitmo for treason…. We don’t need another Muslim messing up our country.
They’ll “talk” to her, publish some flimsy excuse, er, I mean “reason”, of how she was not educated in the tax laws……..and ultimately give her a pass. They take care of their cohorts-in-crime, as everyone knows.
Now, if it were an old white guy republican that did the deed, they would already be wearing an orange jump suit, and be looking through bars.
But, she’s intelligent enough to sit in our House of Representatives & have a vote that effects all Americans? Personally, I want her deported back to Somalia. She has no respect for us & our western ways & will never assimilate.
Oh, Shock!
…allowed into Congress, same way her “iconic-brother-in-arms”, barry soetero became LEADER OF THE FREE WORLD !… you’re welcome !
Why is anyone who has committed the crime of incestual marriage to her brother allowed a position in Congress? Now this? She is evil, a liar and a muslim who hates Jews and has no problem saying so. Why is she still in office? She is evil to the core and is a big part of the muslim terrorist brotherhood hell bent on taking over the west!!
Get that barking howling dog out of the U.S.
Is anyone in congress demanding to see her tax returns? Are he tax fraud crimes justification for her removal from Congress? Is there equality under the law?
How about sending the Bi+[H to jail!!! Just a thought…
It will be interesting to watch Nancy Pelosi dismiss this as nothing more than Omar being ignorant – you know, like she did when defending her anti-Semitism?”
Ignorance of the law is NO DEFENCE. More so when it is by someone involved in making laws. Much like the BS claim of Billy boy Clinton and Lareta Lynch. They knew the meeting on the tarmac was illegal as hell.
She also married her brother while still being married to her first husband to get into this Country. They need to send her back where she came from………………No one is above the law.
And so is virtually EVERY MEMBER of the Congressional Black Caucus!
Don’t forget Bernie’s wife is a liar and thief as well.
We just need to understand her culture differs from ours and that’s OK. To think other wise is ____________phobia.
your ABSOLUTELY correct,orange one.
So marrying your brother is legal in Minnesota? Pretty far from Appalachia.
in her case it’s called Muslim washing… they can do no wrong but screw up our country.
“…rug-sweeping ?”
I’m sure that’s considered “racist” to say now, OrangeBeer! But it’s the truth, all the same–as MANY things that are considered “racist” ARE.
It’s called “white-washing”!
The other man is HER BROTHER….!!!Why isn’t this mentioned in this article???!!! She married her brother in Feb 12, 2009. DO YOUR RESEARCH AND REPORT THE CORRECT INFORMATION POLITICAL INSIDER!!
Lock Rep. Omar up in Club Fed, this is not Somalia and that is where she belongs. She opens her mouth there like she does here and the people would throw stones at her.
of course she’s emboldened;research who her puppet masters are
Omar is emboldened by this light verdict! She continues to bore straight ahead and say and do whatever she pleases! Our country is turning completely lawless.
Omar thinks she is above the law because everything she has done was excused by Pelosi. What ya think now Pelosi ? She didn’t know the language AGAIN ? Hope they get this loud mouth good.
HaHa!! He did and I pray he will keep digging as I am sure there is a LOT more to her Jewish hating mentality to be exposed!!!
How dare he think he can expose her.