House asked to probe Omar's funding of paramour

U.S. Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn. (Sinclair Broadcasting Group video screenshot)

The Washington watchdog Judicial Watch has expanded its request for an ethics investigation of Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., asking the House to probe her use of campaign funds for paramour Tim Mynett as well as allegations of marriage, immigration, tax and identity fraud.

Judicial Watch points to mounting evidence that Omar married her brother in an immigration scheme and perjured herself as many as eight times in statements to obtain a divorce.

In a hand-delivered a letter to the U.S. House of Representatives Office of Congressional Ethics, Judicial Watch says Mynett received nearly $230,000 from Omar's campaign since July 2018.

In July, Judicial Watch requested an investigation of alleged marriage, immigration, tax and other fraud related to the marriage to her brother.

The campaign finance allegations are based on a divorce filing by Dr. Beth Mynett accusing her husband of having an affair with Omar. The Judicial Watch letter points out that most of the $230,000 paid to Tim Mynett's E Street, $175,371.40, was distributed after the November 2018 congressional elections, "thereby calling into question the true purpose of the payments."

Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton said Omar has "significant ethics problems, and the House Ethics Committee must act to investigate the serious and substantial allegations against her."

"Frankly, there's more than enough evidence for the Justice Department to initiate a criminal investigation of Rep. Omar," he said.

Investigative reporter David Steinberg, Powerline blogger Scott Johnson and Alpha News reporter Preya Samsundar have published over the past three years substantial evidence that Omar married her brother to defraud U.S. immigration and perjured herself in her divorce statement.

Omar says she married Ahmed Hirsi, the father of her three children, in an Islamic ceremony in 2002, but six years later they "reached an impasse in our life together" and divorced. In 2009, she legally married Elmi. She says she reconciled with Hirsi in 2012. But she didn't divorce Elmi until 2017, after evidence emerged in her runs for office that Elmi is her biological brother.

A Minnesota state agency has fined her for filing joint tax with Hirsi while she was legally married to Elmi.

DailyMail.com reported in July that the congresswoman had separated from Hirsi.

In her application for divorce from Elmi in 2017, she swore under penalty of perjury, among that, other things, she had had no contact with Elmi after June 2011 and didn't know where to find him.

However, evidence, including now deleted social media posts, compiled by Steinberg and others indicates she not only had contact with Elmi but also met with him.