Ilhan Omars Tight Connections to Minnesota

Rep. Ilhan Omar (MN-5) has not been formally accused of any direct involvement with the welfare fraud scandal going down in the Gopher State, where scammers of largely Somali descent ripped off the federal government by skimming as a lot as $1 billion from nutrition applications like Feeding Our Future.

She’s definitely acquainted with some of the people concerned, however — in fact, she reportedly is aware of some of them fairly properly. Omar has strong relationships with at least two scammers in the fraud saga:

Salim Ahmed Said, 33, is the proprietor of Safari Restaurant, which is where Omar held her 2018 marketing campaign victory get together.

He was convicted in March 2025 on 21 counts including wire fraud, federal applications bribery and money laundering. He allegedly pocketed $5 million from the scheme funneling money through Feeding Our Future for his own enrichments relatively than for the kid nutrition program.

He is going through many years in prison and is one of the more than 70 defendants charged in the sweeping case. There are 45 convictions so far.

Salim Ahmed Said, 33, is the proprietor of Safari Restaurant, which is where Omar held her 2018 marketing campaign victory get together. He was convicted for allegedly pocketed $5 million from the Feeding Our Future program for his own enrichment relatively than for little one nutrition. pic.twitter.com/OexvQSj8FW

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Another one of the thieves labored straight with her marketing campaign:

A different Omar marketing campaign official, a Democratic activist named Guhaad Hashi Said, pleaded guilty in August to operating a pretend food web site called Advance Youth Athletic Development, where he falsely claimed to serve 5,000 meals a day and pocketed $3.2 million out of the food program. 

Said labored on Omar’s 2018 and 2020 campaigns as an “enforcer” who oversaw aggressive voter mobilization in the Somali neighborhood, according to local Alphanews.org.

Guhaad Hashi Said, a Democrat activist and close affiliate of Rep. Ilhan Omar (D), has pleaded GUILTY in connection with the huge Feeding Our Future fraud scheme.

Hashi reportedly ran a web site under the title Advance Youth Athletic Development that falsely claimed to serve up to… pic.twitter.com/Wxj58ELbSO

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Hashi reportedly ran a web site under the title Advance Youth Athletic Development that falsely claimed to serve up to 5,000 meals a day, and took an estimated $3.2 MILLION out of the food program. 

Over 4 dozen people have now been convicted in connection with the rip-off.

As I said above, Omar has not been formally accused of something and is harmless until confirmed guilty. That being said, as the saying goes, “You are known by the company you keep,” and she definitely appears to be buddies with some big-time criminals.  

Another phrase goes, “Show me your friends and I’ll show you who you are.”

The Somali neighborhood in Minnesota, estimated at 108,000, is taken into account tight-knit and is certain together by quite a few household ties. Bill Gahn, a coverage fellow with the Center of the American Experiment, alleged Omar would know many of those concerned in the scandal:

[Rep. Omar] knew who these people have been. People she personally knew have been making tens of hundreds of thousands of {dollars} in this program.

She had been inside the [Safari] facility on quite a few events and could not put two and two together? Either she’s terminally naive, or knew and did not care.

Expect the investigations to ramp up and more prosecutions to come as authorities strive to untangle the web of treachery. Whether Omar was straight concerned or not, she and woefully inept Gov. Tim Walz failed to defend their constituents and the American people.

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