http://www.startribune.com/minnesota-campaign-board-fines-ilhan-omar-says-she-must-reimburse-campaign/510933672/https://cfb.mn.gov/pdf/bdactions/1464_Findings.pdf?t=1559852158MN campaign finance board found Ilhan Omar violated campaign finance law on 6 occasions, 1 for legal services and 5 for travel, using campaign funds for personal use.
She was ordered to repay $3,469.23 and to pay a civil penalty of $500
The allegation was that she paid $2250 for her divorce from her brother and traveled on campaign funds illegally 6 times. They found 5/6 of the travel allegations were indeed violations.
Interestingly, they found that she did not pay $2250 for the divorce itself, but instead she had assembled a crisis PR team in response to the allegation coming out that she had married her brother.
They gave $1500 to one firm and $750 to another to retrieve her
tax returns and immigration records to use for the crisis team
They found the money was not used for the divorce, but this was still an illegal use of funds and ordered to pay it herself and fined.
The bombshell comes out on
why she was paying a crisis firm doing response to the allegation and defensive oppo to look into her tax returns. Why?:
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One payment of $750 was made to De Leon & Nestor, LLC for obtaining
immigration records and one payment of $1,500 was made to Frederick & Rosen, Ltd.
for services related to Mr. Hirsi’s and Rep. Omar’s filed joint tax returns of 2014 and
2015.
Ilhan Omar didn't legally divorce Ahmed Nur Said Elmi (her brother) and marry Ahmed Hirsi until 2017
She was living with both of them at the time and Hirsi was obviously her 'real' husband and father of her children, but she was legally married to Nur Said Elmi.
That means that the tax returns Ilhan Omar filed in 2014 and 2015 were fraudulent: She was jointly filing with someone who was not her legal husband.
Going back, there are up to 8 years she filed tax returns jointly with Hirsi since they joined an 'islamic' marriage;
That means not only did Ilhan Omar commit 6 campaign finance violations and get fined, and not only is she still liable for the marriage fraud, immigration fraud & perjury (and conspiracy to cover it up), but she filed up to 8 years of false tax returns, a felony each.