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Ilhan Omar’s Payments to Husband’s Firm Hit $1 Million in 2020 Cycle
freebeacon ^ | JULY 14, 2020 | Joe Schoffstall

Posted on 07/15/2020 8:38:06 AM PDT by MarvinStinson

Rep. Ilhan Omar (D., Minn.) continues to dish out six-figure payments to her husband's firm, which has now received more than $1 million from her campaign this cycle.

Federal Election Commission records released Tuesday afternoon show that Omar's campaign funneled $228,384.93 last quarter to the E Street Group, a D.C.-based consulting firm run by the congresswoman's husband, Tim Mynett. The payments, predominantly for digital and fundraising services, bring the total that Omar's campaign has sent to Mynett's firm to just over $1 million for the 2020 cycle.

Omar, a freshmen congresswoman, has faced scrutiny over numerous financial and personal issues since she was elected in 2018. She has drawn criticism for a lack of transparency about her previous marriages, over campaign finance violations, and for a potential violation of House ethics rules pertaining to the advance she received on a recently published memoir. Pressed for answers, she has routinely dismissed the inquiries as "smears" and "conspiracy theories."

Mynett's firm is the top vendor for Omar's campaign, which doled out $521,000 between April 1 and June 30 with Mynett's share accounting for 44 percent of that total.

The financial relationship between Mynett and Omar began before the two announced they were married this March, but it is unclear how long the two were romantically linked before they tied the knot. Omar denied the two were romantically involved, but Mynett's then-wife alleged in divorce papers that the two were having an affair.

Omar refused to answer questions about her relationship with her campaign's top vendor. "I have no interest in allowing the conversation about my personal life to continue and so I have no desire to discuss it," she said last year. Her earliest payment to Mynett's firm came in August 2018, during her first run for federal office.

The newly released filings also show that Omar's Democratic primary opponent, Antone Melton-Meaux, drastically outraised her in the second quarter, bringing in $3.2 million to Omar's $471,000.

Omar's campaign did not immediately respond to a request for comment on the payments.


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Government
KEYWORDS: husband; omar; omarhusband
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1 posted on 07/15/2020 8:38:06 AM PDT by MarvinStinson
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To: MarvinStinson

Looks like she may be funding her soon to come retirement from politics with $$ from her campaign fund


2 posted on 07/15/2020 8:39:49 AM PDT by Bell Bouy II
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To: MarvinStinson

Which husband?


3 posted on 07/15/2020 8:40:42 AM PDT by PGR88
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To: MarvinStinson

“The newly released filings also show that Omar’s Democratic primary opponent, Antone Melton-Meaux, drastically outraised her in the second quarter, bringing in $3.2 million to Omar’s $471,000.”

And Antone’s campaign promise will be that he will only funnel $500,000.00 to HIS wife’s shell company!

*SNORT*

What a racket!


4 posted on 07/15/2020 8:41:49 AM PDT by Diana in Wisconsin (I don't have 'hobbies.' I'm developing a robust post-Apocalyptic skill set.)
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To: MarvinStinson

Laws are for the little people.


5 posted on 07/15/2020 8:42:29 AM PDT by 2banana (Common ground with islamic terrorists-they want to die for allah and we want to arrange the meeting)
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To: MarvinStinson

Yup illhand the USA really really sux doesn’t it. Grrrrrrrrrrr. Meanwhile at the super secret underground lair HQ of the DOH-j....................crickets.


6 posted on 07/15/2020 8:42:33 AM PDT by rktman ( #My2ndAmend! ----- Enlisted in the Navy in '67 to protect folks rights to strip my rights. WTH?)
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To: MarvinStinson

Her donators dont seem to care...


7 posted on 07/15/2020 8:44:57 AM PDT by Magnum44 (My comprehensive terrorism plan: Hunt them down and kill them.)
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To: MarvinStinson

Why is everyone turning a blind eye to her thievery?


8 posted on 07/15/2020 8:45:57 AM PDT by Blue Highway
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Terrorist, traitor, foreigner, America-hater, troublemaker, agitator, thief, scumbag......

Check all that apply...


9 posted on 07/15/2020 8:46:52 AM PDT by EagleUSA
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To: MarvinStinson

Orange jumpsuit when?


10 posted on 07/15/2020 8:48:14 AM PDT by cranked
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To: Blue Highway

Once you are in...especially if you are a democrat...you can almost get away with murder...and sometimes you can even get away with murder.


11 posted on 07/15/2020 8:48:49 AM PDT by Leep (We can go to the grocery store but we can't go to work?)
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To: Blue Highway

She is a Soros tool.


12 posted on 07/15/2020 8:51:59 AM PDT by MarvinStinson
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To: Leep

Mary Jo kopechne unavailable for comment.


13 posted on 07/15/2020 8:55:31 AM PDT by Federal46 (federal 46)
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To: MarvinStinson

Isn’t she technically paying herself with taxpayer funds, through the husband’s consulting firm? How can that be legal?


14 posted on 07/15/2020 9:08:17 AM PDT by oil_dude
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To: Bell Bouy II

WHY has she not been indicted yet?????


15 posted on 07/15/2020 9:21:16 AM PDT by CaptainKip
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To: MarvinStinson

What’s the point of being a congresscritter if you can’t steal millions of dollars?


16 posted on 07/15/2020 9:53:37 AM PDT by zeugma (Stop deluding yourself that America is still a free country.)
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To: MarvinStinson

Though she recently called for abolition of the political system in the US, she didn’t really mean EVERY aspect of the system. Bribes, embezzlement and fraud are still okay with her.


17 posted on 07/15/2020 10:40:22 AM PDT by DPMD (uo)
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To: MarvinStinson

and it goes right back into her bank account


18 posted on 07/15/2020 10:44:42 AM PDT by butlerweave
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To: cranked

I’d give that about the 3rd of never.

If earthly justice ever visits that person and her buddies, it will not involve courts and jail cells...


19 posted on 07/15/2020 11:09:45 AM PDT by L,TOWM (An upraised middle finger is my virtue signal.)
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In our rigged leftist system of government, the only justice that can ever be meted out to her kind involves heavy metal.


20 posted on 07/15/2020 11:12:26 AM PDT by Scott from the Left Coast (When in the course of human events...)
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