Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) has taken another shot across the bow after a Minneapolis man was convicted for offering a $120,000 bribe to a juror in a $250 million welfare fraud case.
Omar wants us all to believe that her community is innocent save for a few bad eggs.
Well, one of those bad eggs is headed to jail for nearly five years.
The $250 million fraud case is the one that blew the doors off the fraud in Minnesota, but it is just a small wedge of this massive pie that has ruined the careers of Minnesota politicians at every level.
So far, more than 90 people have been charged, and two-thirds of them have already been convicted.
Of those charged, nearly 90% of them are Somalis, so this is not the small issue Omar is making it out to be.
These people saw something they could exploit, and they did. Worse for Omar, it happened either under her nose or with her knowledge.
There is another aspect of this that Democrats want to hide, that being the possible link to terror organizations.
One of the theories floating around is that a chunk of this money was sent back to Somalia and wound up in the hands of terrorists.
Rather than look at the problem within the state, Omar threw shade at the FBI, likely thinking it would hurt Kash Patel, but this would have been the FBI under the Biden administration, not Trump.
She stated, "If there was a linkage in the money that they have stolen going to terrorism, then that is a failure of the FBI and our court system in not figuring that out.”
A constituent of Omar’s, Abdulkarim Farah, 25, was just convicted for trying to pay off a juror in the $250 million fraud case, having reportedly handed the juror a bag with $120,000 in it. He was trying to get two of his brothers out of trouble, both having been part of that massive fraud operation. Now he will be joining them in jail for the next 57 months.
Omar is deeply embedded in this community, and she has already been linked to several of these fraudsters through campaign events and donations.
As involved in her community as she claims to be, there is simply no way I can believe that she did not get a sniff of some shady business or have suspicions. Instead, she turned a blind eye, thinking nobody would ever get caught. After all, the government is notorious for writing checks and washing its hands of the money, so why would anyone have been worried?
They did get caught, though, and in my opinion, any local, state, or federal official who is linked to any of these programs should never collect another taxpayer-funded paycheck again.
