Minnesota Rep: By 2016 Everyone Knew Ilhan Omar Married Her Brother:
Evidence suggesting Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., married her brother goes back at least to 2016, when the Obama administration opened an investigation into the alleged marital and immigration fraud. Republican Minnesota State Rep. Kristin Robbins said everyone in her state knew about it the whole time.
“This has been an open secret in Minnesota for many years,” Robbins, chairwoman of the House Fraud Prevention and State Oversight Committee, told The Federalist. “Everyone here has heard it and was not surprised by it.”
But while “Democrats felt it was just a political smear job by the Republicans, and most Republicans thought it was true,” many of those who believed it was true “decided speaking out wasn’t worth it” because “anyone who raised it was called a racist and an Islamophobe.”
“Every time someone said there was fraud in the Somali community, whether it was a politician or a whistleblower inside the agencies, they were called racist, they were called Islamophobic,” Robbins said. “In many cases, the whistleblowers were required to go to DEI training if they said anything.”
The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and Department of Homeland Security (DHS) opened the investigation into Omar, whose real name, federal officials believe, is Ilhan Nur Said Elmi. According to The New York Times, current and former officials say there was evidence at the time that her marriage to Ahmed Nur Said Elmi, a man believed to be her brother, was fraudulent. Ahmed currently writes about his experience as a “gay man of the East African diaspora” living as an academic in the United Kingdom.
Robbins said that one “stunning development” that came out was the use of the Nur Said Elmi name, because Ilhan had always presented her last name as “Omar.” The discrepancy stems from evidence suggesting Elmi’s father — through whom she obtained her citizenship in 2000, purportedly as a minor child — assumed a different identity as well in order to claim refugee status.
Elmi’s citizenship itself is under scrutiny due to possible immigration fraud separate from the marriage to her brother, as it appears she was an adult at the time she obtained it, despite claiming to be a minor.
But Robbins wants to know if there was foul play on the part of the Obama administration to cover for Omar as she became prominent in Minnesota, and then national politics. --->READ MORE HERE
Former US attorney says 2016 letter never meant to clear Ilhan Omar of brother-marriage allegations:
More than a decade after Alpha News' first report on the matter, a New York Times article says federal agents under the Obama administration "found evidence suggesting" Omar married her brother.
For nearly a decade, a three-sentence letter from former Minnesota U.S. Attorney Andrew Luger helped quiet allegations that Rep. Ilhan Omar married her brother in an immigration fraud scheme.
Now, Luger says the letter was never meant to address whether those allegations were true.
In an interview with The New York Times, Luger said his August 2016 letter “was never meant to say anything about the substance of the claims.”
The clarification comes as the Times reported Thursday that federal agents investigated Omar’s 2009 marriage to Ahmed Nur Said Elmi during the Obama administration and found evidence suggesting the two were siblings.
The case reportedly stalled not because the allegations were disproven, but because prosecutors determined the potential felony fell outside the five-year statute of limitations.
What federal agents reportedly uncovered
According to the Times, six current and former officials said an FBI agent and two Homeland Security Investigations agents uncovered evidence suggesting Omar and Ahmed Nur Said Elmi were siblings.
Two former officials also told the Times that Elmi obtained a provisional two-year green card through his marriage to Omar. But when immigration authorities requested additional proof of the marriage’s legitimacy, Elmi left the United States and abandoned his application for permanent residency, the outlet reported.
While much of Minnesota’s media coverage faded after Luger’s letter became public, not everyone let the story die.
Minnesota attorney and Power Line contributor Scott Johnson, the first to publicize the allegations in 2016, kept digging through marriage records, tax filings and other documents. Alpha News also pursued the story from the beginning, publishing investigations dating back to August 2016.
Their reporting faced accusations of being racist and bigoted, while Omar repeatedly dismissed the allegations as conspiracy theories.
A decade later, however, Omar faces renewed federal scrutiny. Agents searched her Washington home Oct. 12 as part of a sweeping investigation into her immigration history.
And the questions extend beyond her marriage. As the Times noted, the Justice Department recently identified Omar as “Ilhan Nur Said Elmi” in a court filing, suggesting her longtime name is an alias. --->READ MORE HERE
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