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Rep. Ilhan Omar under federal investigation (big, big trouble)

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by Frank Holmes, reporter

The endless string of welfare fraud linked to the Somali community in Minnesota has ended Minnesota Governor Tim Walz’s political career — and it may be about to snag its biggest name of all.

As investigators trace the tentacles of the grifters and fraudsters, they may lead back to a sitting Democratic congresswoman: Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn.

Experts still argue about the full extent of welfare fraud in Minnesota alone.

“Over the years I would say anywhere from $80 billion to $100 billion,” estimated an associate of investigative journalist Nick Shirley, whose longform online video showed empty, Somali-run daycares and “learing” centers apparently defrauding state or federal programs.

That magnitude of corruption cannot happen without willful blindness — or active collaboration — from above, and conservative watchdogs are following the trail of golden breadcrumbs to high places.

That’s where Ilhan Omar comes in.

Many of the 90 people already charged with ripping off taxpayers have close, documented ties to Omar.

Ilhan Omar held her 2018 victory party in the Safari Restaurant, which was front-and-center in the Feeding Our Future scam: Somalis pretended to offer food for the poor in exchange for taxpayer money. In reality, they just pocketed the cash.

Omar sponsored the legislation that put more of your money in the criminals’ pockets. Omar’s MEALS (Maintaining Essential Access to Lunch for Students) Act increased federal funding

“In 2020, Ilhan Omar bragged about authoring the MEALS Act. That same program later became the pipeline for the Feeding Our Future fraud, with hundreds of millions stolen,” wrote Townhall.com columnist Dustin Grage. “Big corporations didn’t get rich. Her friends did.

Omar posted a video of herself personally serving meals at the Safari Restaurant — and its owners, Ahmed Ghedi and Abdihakim Ahmed, donated $5,400 to Omar’s campaign.

Did Omar funnel billions of your tax dollars to her friends, so they could kick back a few thousand dollars to her campaign?

Details are still emerging, but that’s not only Omar’s only tie to the massive welfare ripoff.

Abdul Dahir Ibrahim, an illegal immigrant from Somalia who was ordered out of the country in 2004 and then caught in the crackdown on the welfare fraud scandal, campaigned for Omar in 2016, and, as photographs of the two together show, the relationship only got cozier as the years went on.

Now conservatives want answers — and they’ve put some of their best investigators on the case.

Peter Flaherty, chairman and and CEO of the National Legal and Policy Center (NLPC), confirmed that his Government Integrity Project team is “certainly looking” at connections between Somali federal fraud and Omar’s campaign, and any personal financial windfalls.

It’s one of many scandals that threatens to sink Ilhan Omar and her latest husband. NLPLC pointed out Congresswoman Omar has profited handsomely from her “public service.”

When Ilhan Omar entered the House of Representatives, she actually had a negative net worth. According to congressional filings, Omar was in the hole somewhere between $25,000 and $65,000, mostly due to student loans.

By 2023, Omar was worth at least $6 million, and possibly as much as $30 million.

NLPC said Omar’s “disclosure form showing the couple’s sudden wealth … provided more questions than answers.”

Not many people see their bank account rise 3,500 percent in four years—especially during the COVID shutdowns and in the midst of historic levels of inflation during the Biden-Harris administration.

The socialist Somali refugee “was basically broke when she came into office, and now she’s worth perhaps up to $30 million,” said Kamenar. “She needs to come clean on these assets.”

But true confession is the last thing Omar has in mind.

A lot of that wealth comes from her third husband, Tim Mynett, of the venture capital fund Rose Lake Capital, which started with just $1,000 in the bank in 2023. Just one year later, it reported assets amounting to between $5 million and $25 million.

“Who ‘invested’ in Rose Lake, what was their motivation, and what did they receive, if anything, in return?” asked Kamenar.

Mynnett also runs a vineyard under the business name ETRUSCU LLC, which had only $15,000 to $50,000 on hand in 2023. A year later, it was worth between $1 million and $5 million.

That’s an incredible financial and business feat, since “the company’s portal for purchasing wine doesn’t appear to work,” reports Fox News.

If the investors in Omar’s husband’s company aren’t buying wine, what are they buying?

Omar wants to make sure we never find out.

Rose Lake Capital just scrubbed its list of nine officers — because the list creates ties the organization to the highest levels of Congress, the Obama administration, and the Democratic Party.

The list of Mynett’s partners includes onetime Democratic National Committee treasurer William Derrough, as well as Alex Hoffman, the former chief of staff to the DNC’s national finance chair.

The former CEO of Amalgamated Bank, Keith Mestrich, who called his business “the institutional bank of the Democratic Party,” also helped Omar’s husband.

So did former Democratic Montana Senator Max Baucus, whom Barack Obama appointed as his ambassador to China, and Obama’s ambassador to Bahrain, Adam Ereli.

“There’s a lot of strange things going on,” Paul Kamenar, counsel to the NPLC, told the New York Post. “She was basically broke when she came into office and now she’s worth perhaps up to $30 million…she needs to come clean on these assets.”

Between President Trump’s DOJ investigation and the broader conservative watchdog probe, the facts will come out.

Will Omar lose her safe, Democratic seat in Somali-dominated Minneapolis?

Will she face trial in the U.S. for helping steal your taxpayer dollars?

Or will she be stripped of her U.S. citizenship and deported back to Somalia?

We can’t wait to see what her future holds.

About the Author

Frank Holmes is a veteran journalist and an outspoken conservative that talks about the news that was in his weekly article, “On The Holmes Front.”