Posted on 05/30/2019 4:36:35 PM PDT by Steve1999
A former Justice Department prosecutor is asking a U.S. District Court in Washington to review the claim that Congresswoman Ilhan Omar may have committed immigration fraud.
The American Mirror reported that the allegations against Omar, one of the first two Muslim women in Congress, are not new, but her reluctance to put them to rest, coupled with an abundance of photo evidence and deleted social media activity, strongly suggests Omar married her brother Ahmed Elmi in 2009.
The issue first surfaced during Omar’s campaign for Minnesota state representative in 2016, when a post to the online message board SomaliSpot.com alleged she was legally married to Ahmed Elmi while married by Islamic tradition to the father of her children, Ahmed Hirsi.
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She’s black! She’s a Muslim! She’s a democrap! Permission to be a criminal. Trump farted!!!! Impeach! Impeach!
AP reported “several coincidences" suggest a connection between Omar and Elmi. Elmi claims he doesn’t know her
Among them:
<><> Elmi’s LinkedIn account states he went to North Dakota State University.
<><> Omar's resume states she attended North Dakota State University
<><> N/D University records show both Elmi and Omar attended the school from Aug 2010 through May of 2012.
<><> Elmi’s LinkedIn account lists art as a major, which corresponds with N/D university records.
<><> Address Records Show Omar Lived With Husband #1 Throughout Marriage To Brother Elmi.
<><> Growing amount ofevidence implicate Omar in multiple federal and state felonies.
Ilhan Omar has refused to answer substantive questions regarding her marriage to husband number 2, Ahmed Nur Said Elmi. I think is fair to infer that Elmi is her brother and that she entered the marriage for some dishonest purpose. If so, the dishonest purpose would likely have something to do with student aid while she and Elmi went to college in Fargo at North Dakota State University. If Omar is not Elmi’s sibling, the marriage nevertheless appears to involve some serious dishonesty she has concealed.
I originally raised the question regarding Omar’s marriage to Elmi in 2016. Through a criminal defense attorney, Omar responded by email and called me out: “There are people who do not want an East African, Muslim woman elected to office and who will follow Donald Trump’s playbook to prevent it. Ilhan Omar’s campaign sees your superfluous contentions as one more in a series of attempts to discredit her candidacy.” I took that to be a nondenial denial. Perhaps mistakenly, I drew adverse inferences. I followed up with additional questions for Omar through the criminal defense attorney as the attorney had instructed me to do. Omar did not respond. Perhaps mistakenly, I drew adverse inferences.
By the time the Star Tribune got around to asking Omar about it, she treated the question as a public relations crisis. A Democratic operative was flown in to assist Omar. He spoke on her behalf and issued an unilluminating statement or two in Omar’s name. He continued the personal disparagement that the criminal defense attorney had conveyed to me. When Star Tribune reporter Patrick Coolican called me for a comment, I asked him who they said Elmi was. “They won’t tell me,” he said. Coolican’s August 16, 2016 story is accessible here. Coolican’s August 17 story quotes the formal written statement issued in Omar’s name. Omar campaign spokesman (who is now a state representative), Michael Howard, declared that the formal written statement would be Omar’s last word on the matter.
Beyond the statement Omar would brook no more questions. The subject was closed. Perhaps mistakenly, I drew adverse inferences.
Preya Samsundar picked up the story for the small online Alpha News outlet. Preya was able to follow up on the story in the traditional fashion and through social media. She got a copy of Omar’s 2009 marriage certificate and tracked Elmi down in London. When I met with Preya in 2016, she told me: “I think social media prove without a doubt that there is a familial relationship [between Omar and Elmi] that is not that of a husband and wife.”
As I recall, Preya also told me (I’m stretching my memory here) that the marriage certificate had not been signed by a Muslim cleric, but rather by some non-denominational Christian cleric. Omar continued to decline any responses to Preya’s inquiries as well.
In November 2016, after her election to the Minnesota House of Representatives, Omar did have this to say to a friendly reporter at the local weekly City Pages: ““I look at the soap opera, the shit show of what people might consider to be in their discovery of things, there isn’t anything to what’s being insinuated or anything there to bite me in the ass, What I’m surprised about are… the particular things that are appropriate to insinuate without any legitimacy or facts. I think if certain factors weren’t in play, this wouldn’t be considered acceptable.”
Omar’s implication regarding “certain factors” was more of the same.
Omar was still married to Elmi at the time. Referring to Elmi’s residence in London, Omar also told the City Pages reporter: “There are particular challenges to getting a legal divorce. One of those is getting the cooperation and presence of the other person who you are divorcing.” This is simply false. No cooperation is required. Without any cooperation from Elmi, Omar easily dissolved the marriage in December 2017 as she was preparing to move on to bigger things.
Last year PJ Media New York editor David Steinberg picked up the thread in a series of four investigative columns that ran from August 8 to November 5. They are all accessible here. Omar has never responded to Steinberg’s several requests for comment prior to publication. David has a fifth column in the works. He has also concluded that Elmi is probably Omar’s brother.
UPDATE: Speaking with Preya Samsundar this morning, I was told that the name on the Elmi-Omar marriage certificate is Walecia Harris. In 2016 Preya found Harris’s name associated with an Eden Prairie church. Shortly thereafter she found a Hennepin County employee with the Walecia Harris nameplate on her desk at the Hennepin County Ridgedale office. Asked about the Elmi-Omar wedding, Harris said she knew nothing.
I want to emphasize Omar and Elmi may not be brother and sister, but Omar has never acted in any manner other than one consistent with the implication that she has something to hide. I don’t know for a fact what it is. I do infer, however, that she is hiding something.
Jubilant Somalis Drag Dead American Soldier Through Somali Streets
in a sickening display of Somali savagery and American hatred
LA TIMES ARCHIVES 1/16/94
BY ARLENE LEVINSON-—ASSOCIATED PRESS
Tom Field watched the news that day both fearful and transfixed as a U.S. soldier was dragged like a dead dog through the dust of Mogadishu by jubilant Somalis. Was that Tom? His Tom? “I can tell my son’s face, and his arms,” said Field, his voice still thick with heartbreak since the death of the 25-year-old Army sergeant from Lisbon, Me. “My two sons and myself was all looking. Right now, I couldn’t tell you for sure.”
On Oct. 3, Tom Field was among the U.S. Army Rangers hunting the underlings of Mohammed Farah Aidid who were plunged into a bloody urban battle that left 18 U.S. servicemen dead, 78 wounded and 300 or more Somalis killed. The awful events of that day changed everything. The death toll was terrible enough, but one single, sickening sight—a still photograph of a mutilated dead soldier, tied with rope before a jeering crowd—chilled many who had continued to think charitably about the United States’ purpose in Somalia. Only four days later, President Clinton announced troops would withdraw from their mercy mission within six months, by March 31, 1994.
The withdrawal was not the fruit of victory; Somalia remained in deadly disarray. Instead, it was inspired in great part by the revulsion of the American people when they saw the humiliating spectacle made of that one slain soldier. And, still, who he was remains unknown. Which mother had kissed that face, or which wife that mouth with its crooked teeth? Who once felt warm in those arms? Of the 18 men killed by Aidid’s supporters, five were reported missing until the Somalis returned their remains.
“They were the only ones that could have been in that photograph,” said Navy Cmdr. Joe Gradisher, a Pentagon spokesman assigned to field questions about Somalia. Was he Sgt. Thomas Field, a skilled mechanic from a family of stock car racers whose father felt uneasy about his choice of an Army career? Was he Staff Sgt. William Cleveland, 34, whose military heritage dated back to a soldier who died fighting on the Union side in the Civil War, and whose ambition since childhood was a life in uniform, like his father? Was he Chief Warrant Officer Raymond Frank, 45, a pilot for 27 years who dearly loved flying?
Was he Sgt. 1st Class Randall Shughart, a 35-year-old from Newville, Pa., who so loved the military that he made his wife, Stephanie, promise never to ask him to quit? Or was he Master Sgt. Gary Gordon, 33, whose funeral in Lincoln, Me., the papermaking town he left 15 years ago, drew hundreds of mourners? The Pentagon’s position is this: Naming the man in the picture serves no purpose, and would only pain those who loved and lost him. “They were American soldiers,” Gradisher said. “That in itself is jarring enough. You don’t need an individual’s name to express horror at the treatment of the bodies.”
Gradisher said he did not know if the Pentagon had even identified the soldier in that indelible photograph—taken by Toronto Star reporter Paul Watson and distributed worldwide by the Associated Press—or other bodies shown in television footage. The AP’s effort to determine their identities required calls to relatives and others who knew the 18 men before the list could be narrowed to the five, whose names the Pentagon then confirmed. Most of those reached were these five soldiers’ parents; widows had moved, had newly unlisted numbers or took refuge behind the shields military families learn to erect.
And some, who did not want to be quoted, said it was better to leave the grieving alone. Nada Morford, the mother of William David Cleveland Jr., felt that way at first. She knew her son’s stepmother had told a Virginia newspaper she recognized David as the man in the AP photograph, but Morford immediately protested, saying it was not her son. “I want him to rest in peace and let him go,” she said then. But Morford had only glanced at the picture in the newspaper weeks before, and the question gnawed at her. She went to the town library to make photocopies of pictures in a Time magazine article. And then she asked a reporter for the AP photograph.
She swallowed tears as she described how she pored over the pictures, how she found contours that seemed so familiar, but not enough for her to say with certainty the soldier in the photograph was her son. “My son had black eyebrows and eyelashes,” Morford said. “He”—the soldier—”had light hair, black eyebrows.” But then, she said, she noticed that the legs and feet resembled David’s. “I would hate to say this is positively my son, and have it be somebody else’s,” she said from her trailer home in Peoria, Ariz. Then, she began to cry. In Clarksville, Tenn., Willi Frank thought she spotted her husband immediately in television footage. But even then, of the bodies she saw, she wasn’t really sure which might be Ray Frank’s.
The day before, she had learned Ray was missing. She studied CNN’s continuous reports, mesmerized, sure each time she could pinpoint that achingly familiar indent of Ray’s back surgery scar, the particular way he wore his short, graying hair. “At the same time you’re looking for identifying marks, you’re praying there aren’t any,” Frank said, reflecting on that endless day. “I picked out the one that I hoped was him, because it looked like it had been the least mistreated.” Chief Warrant Officer Michael Durant, who was taken prisoner when his helicopter was shot down and later released, offers the five families at least some comfort: He believes all five men were dead before the Somalis got to them. But Durant will not publicly even attempt to put a name on the face in the photograph. “There’s no way to prove beyond any doubt,” he said, “so why put the family through what they’ve already been through?”
Many among the families of the 18 dead told of trying to learn whether the unknown soldier was theirs, of quizzing the battle survivors at the funerals. Some could barely speak for weeping; others said they found little relief in knowing the soldier in the picture was someone else’s husband or son. “That picture represents every parent’s nightmare,” said Caroline Smith of Long Valley, N.J., who lost her 21-year-old son, Spc. James E. Smith.
When she buried her son in Ft. Benning, Ga., Caroline Smith learned from some of the men with him in battle that he had been shot and pulled inside a building. “Even though we happen to know that person wasn’t our son,” she said, “it could have been. It could have been.”
https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1994-01-16-mn-12448-story.html
Military/Veterans?
Too bad we “missed” her in Somalia.
I can see the resemblance, ha. Seriously, if this is true, then she needs to be booted out. This crap of certain people becoming PRESIDENT (born in Kenya) and congress reps and not being lawfully eligible is getting ridiculous.
They stupidly timed it thinking that "globalism" was going to elevate them to glory.
Now globalism and its proponents are tanking all over the place, thank God.
Keep in mind, these people clearly are "lying in wait" (a crime)....plotting to do harm to America and Americans.
MINN SOMALIS STEAL $300 MILLION TAX DOLLARS——The Worst Scandal In Minnesota History?
Center of the American Experiment ^ | May 14, 2018 | John Hinderaker
FR Posted on 5/15/2018, 9:24:53 AM by 2ndDivisionVet
Fox 9 television uncovers a far-reaching scandal: last year, more than $100 million in cash left the Twin Cities airport in carry-on luggage, bound for the Middle East and Africa: This story begins at Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport, where mysterious suitcases filled with cash have become a common carry-on. On the morning of March 15, Fox 9 chased a tip about a man who was leaving the country. Sources said he took a carry-on bag through security that was packed with $1 million in cash. Travelers can do that, as long as they fill out the proper government forms. Fox 9 learned that these cloak-and-dagger scenarios now happen almost weekly at MSP. The money is usually headed to the Middle East, Dubai and points beyond. Sources said last year alone, more than $100 million in cash left MSP in carry-on luggage.
Where does the money come from, and where is it going? It was coming from Hawalas, businesses used to courier money to countries that have no official banking system. Some immigrant communities rely on Hawalas to send funds to help impoverished relatives back home.
[Former Seattle police detective Glen] Kerns discovered some of the money was being funneled to a Hawala in the region of Somalia that is controlled by the al Shabaab terrorist group.
But the real scandal is where the money came from in the first place–welfare fraud:As Kerns dug deeper, he found that some of the individuals who were sending out tens of thousands of dollars’ worth of remittance payments happened to be on government assistance in this country. How could they possibly come up with such big bucks to transfer back home? “We had sources that told us, ‘It’s welfare fraud, it’s all about the daycare,’” said Kerns. *** Five years ago the Fox 9 Investigators were first to report that daycare fraud was on the rise in Minnesota, exposing how some businesses were gaming the system to steal millions in government subsidies meant to help low-income families with their childcare expenses.
“It’s a great way to make some money,” Hennepin County Attorney Mike Freeman said In order for the scheme to work, the daycare centers falsely signed up low income Somali Muslim families that qualify for child care assistance funding.Surveillance videos from a case prosecuted by Hennepin County show parents checking their kids into a center, only to leave with them a few minutes later. Sometimes, no children would show up.
Either way, the center would bill the state for a full day of childcare.Video from that same case shows a man handing out envelopes of what are believed to be kickback payments to parents who are in on the fraud. Evidently welfare fraud in various forms is widespread in Minnesota’s Somali immigrant community. This is, I think, generally known, but the scale of fraud disclosed here is astonishing:
“We believe that there’s a scope of fraud out there that we really need to get our arms around and ensure that those dollars are going to kids that really need them,” Acting Commissioner for the Department of Human Services Chuck Johnson said.
He told the Fox 9 Investigators his agency has 10 daycares currently under active investigation for fraud. Fox 9 has learned dozens more are considered suspicious. Search warrants obtained by the Fox 9 Investigators show each one of the suspect centers has received several million dollars in childcare assistance funds.
According to public records and government sources, most are owned by Somali immigrants. *** Sources in the Somali community told Fox 9 it is an open secret that starting a daycare center is a license to make money.
The fraud is so widespread they said, that people buy shares of daycare businesses to get a cut of the huge public subsidies that are pouring in. Government insiders believe this scam is costing the state at least a hundred million dollars a year, half of all child care subsidies.
A friend who saw this news story wrote: This has me more angry than I’ve been since the 2011 tax increase on the “rich” aka, working families. I can’t put into words how utterly incompetent you must be to not have a checks and balances in place for tax payer funded programs, the tax payer dollars that people like myself and millions others diligently pay quarterly, leaving our children in childcare to work and provide for our families, pay taxes, only to have this hard work fund bogus programs that somehow are funding the same terrorist activities meant to harm our country?!!! Unbelievable. The commissioner and employees responsible for overseeing this mess should pay, every single one of them – they should be fired – they didn’t do their job.
Her outrage is appropriate, but perhaps misguided. I suspect that many of Minnesota’s liberals think that our bureaucrats performed their jobs very well: they siphoned off hundreds of millions of taxpayer dollars to finance liberal constituencies—the principal purpose of government, according to our lib friends.
So, how dumb are we? Honestly, I think it is impossible to plumb the depths of our stupidity. We need to totally revamp both our immigration policies and our welfare system to guard against these Somali migrant crooks.
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