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.
Looks like she may be funding her soon to come retirement from politics with $$ from her campaign fund
Which husband?
“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!
Laws are for the little people.
Yup illhand the USA really really sux doesn’t it. Grrrrrrrrrrr. Meanwhile at the super secret underground lair HQ of the DOH-j....................crickets.
Her donators dont seem to care...
Why is everyone turning a blind eye to her thievery?
Terrorist, traitor, foreigner, America-hater, troublemaker, agitator, thief, scumbag......
Check all that apply...
Orange jumpsuit when?
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.
She is a Soros tool.
Mary Jo kopechne unavailable for comment.
Isn’t she technically paying herself with taxpayer funds, through the husband’s consulting firm? How can that be legal?
WHY has she not been indicted yet?????
What’s the point of being a congresscritter if you can’t steal millions of dollars?
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.
and it goes right back into her bank account
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...
In our rigged leftist system of government, the only justice that can ever be meted out to her kind involves heavy metal.
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