Ilhan Omar may well have known about this scheme, and was secure in the knowledge that as a valued member of the leftist elite, she was untouchable. She could do anything she wanted and the Democrats, the courts, and the media would protect her. That has changed now to the degree that charges against her circulate widely, but so far, there is no indication that the courts or the Democrats have stopped considering her untouchable.
“Minnesota ‘Squad’ Rep. Ilhan Omar knew about $250M COVID meal fraud, scheme ‘mastermind’ claims in jailhouse interview,” by Gabrielle Fahmy, New York Post, May 16, 2026:
The Minnesota “mastermind” of the state’s massive COVID meal fraud claims “Squad” Rep. Ilhan Omar was in on the $250 million scam.
Aimee Bock, founder of nonprofit Feeding Our Future, was convicted in March 2025 of conspiracy, bribery and wire fraud for allegedly helping restaurant owners file fake or inflated claims during the pandemic to steal millions in child nutrition funds from the government.
She spoke to The Post by video call this week from Sherburne County Jail, where she is awaiting sentencing.
“I struggle to believe that she wouldn’t have known,” Bock said of Omar.
Dozens of members of Minnesota’s Somali community have been convicted of fraudulently billing the state’s Department of Education for millions of meals they claimed they served to low-income children during the COVID outbreak — while pocketing much of the money….
Omar was instrumental in loosening the laws that set the stage for the scheme — first by introducing the MEALS Act to Congress in March 2020, which allowed the US Department of Agriculture to issue waivers of school-meal requirements during the pandemic….
Omar would personally step in whenever those waivers ran out, allowing the rampant fraud to continue, Bock alleged.
“There had been a couple times early on that there were some gaps – a waiver would be set to expire on maybe the 15th of a month, and then the renewal didn’t kick in until the 1st,” Bock claimed. “Because of course this was supposed to be a short-term thing . . . we were supposed to be home for two weeks.”
Omar has been under fire since her wealth mysteriously jumped from almost nothing to up to $30 million in 2024, a windfall she tried to chalk up to an accounting error….
House of Refuge’s owner has since been sentenced to three and a half years in prison for fraudulently obtaining $2.4 million in federal funds.
“That’s my biggest regret,” Bock said. “Accepting the answer that the government doesn’t take a position on fraud. . . . I don’t think I comprehended just the magnitude of how important that statement would be.”
Minnesota’s Fraud Prevention and State Agency Oversight Committee asked the House Oversight Committee last week to subpoena Omar, who has refused to turn over her communications with convicted fraudsters.
Omar — and fellow Democrats Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz and Attorney General Keith Ellison — “played critical roles in creating and enabling” the fraud, concluded the state committee’s report this week….
David Lakatos says
I never got hoaxed into that crap. Never got the shot. But I know people who had gotten the shot and boosters and still cough, COVID-19
Billy says
Democrats and Islam’s Muslims are deceitful partners using discrimination, segregation, violence, and terrorism against America and Non-Muslims to gain more taxpayer money, more political power, and more government control. Muslims are Totalitarian Terrorists of Allah operating in bad faith to ultimately conquer the Non-Muslims. Allah in Qur’an 8:39 says, “And engage in war with them[Non-Muslims] until there will not be sedition and the religion will be completely to Allah…”
Allah rewards Muslims, Terrorists of Allah, with a Garden Paradise when they kill and are killed in Jihad for Allah, war against Non-Muslims with MUSLIM MONEY and with MUSLIM LIVES to make Islam supreme. Allah in Qur’an 49:15 teaches, “Surely the believers[Muslims] are only those who believed in Allah and his messenger. They do not doubt, and they performed JIHAD with their MONEY and their LIVES for the sake of Allah. Those are the truthful.” See also Qur’an 2:191; 4:89, 91; 8:60; 9:5, 29, 111; 47:4; 48:29, etc.
somehistory says
The ugly snake needs to be called before a judge and prosecuted for **all** of her crimes. Strip her of the money she defrauded, of all things which allow her to stay and live off of the taxpayers she hates and would cackle if we all died, and then ship her off to Somaliland so they can also prosecute her.
abu taleb says
I know most of my government employees and also other state instutitions’ employees are doing corruption and taking briberies. I don’t have the proof but if I had the authority, it would be quite easy to get the proof.
So, Ilhan Omar and also the Minnessota government officials must have known the fraud, but they are closing their eyes and/or becoming part of it.
somehistory says
ilhan elmi, fraudulently called omar, was in it from the get-go. she planned it, just as she committed fraud to get her brother into the country. she worked to make it easier and more profitable by her part in the Congress’s decision during covid when money was being spent as if was fly-infested garbage instead of hard-earned cash.
her greedy hands were already dirty.
tgusa says
Incredibly clueless white girl gets involved with Somali pirates and now she is looking at 50 years behind bars. I struggle to believe that she wouldn’t have known. Well, not really, not in these times.
Hey there incredibly clueless white girls, stay away from the foreign fraudsters. They will only use your suicidal empathy to make you the fall guy. One the reverse they will have zero empathy for you as you are a throwaway that has been targeted to be used.
somehistory says
Lots of clueless Whites….and lots of racist Blacks in positions of power
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/naacp-chapter-president-warns-white-people-not-to-seek-interim-mayor-position-watch/ar-AA23u9xs?ocid=msedgntp&pc=HCTS&cvid=6a0bbb2a90044f21b160c54774b7433a&ei=16
““It is seriously disturbing for white folks to be lobbying to be the interim Mayor in Charlotte. Our mayor, who recently resigned, is a Black woman who is a registered Democrat. While Black representation is being undermined and stripped nationwide, White folks are either tone deaf or worse… self-centered! It’s not about YOU!”
Mack continued: “In Charlotte, Black Voters have been intentional about having Black representation. What is the consensus after several discussions? If the City Council votes a non-Black person in as interim Mayor again … voters will hold you accountable next year.””
tgusa says
“Black Voters have been intentional about having Black representation.”
Back in the day, why did blacks fight against segregation? I struggle to understand.
somehistory says
The racists among them don’t want equality; they want to be seen as superior. I remember what they were saying when bo was ‘selected.’ They were shouting that “it’s now our turn”….and they are still at it.
It’s much the same in the U.K.
“Pupils are being taught that black people cannot be racist towards white people as part of a scheme to combat prejudice.
Schools in Sheffield have adopted lesson plans which tell teenagers the word ‘racist’ cannot be used in the context of black people’s behaviour towards their white peers.
This is because racism can only be exhibited by those who hold cultural power, such as white people over black people, the guidance claims.
In addition, separate lesson plans for children as young as seven say that white people are likely to be privileged because of the colour of their skin.
They are advised that they have a ‘responsibility’ to reduce racism by being aware of their ‘white privilege’, and improving their behaviour.
The lesson plans have been devised by a group of schools in Sheffield to ’empower’ students and teachers to explore ways in which learning about race and racism can challenge ‘the unequal systems that surround us in society’.
However, Laura Trott, Shadow Education Secretary, said: ‘It is deeply alarming that children as young as seven are being exposed to divisive identity politics in schools under the banner of ‘anti-racism education’.
‘These materials teach children that black prejudice against white people cannot be described as racism, present contested concepts like ‘white privilege’ as unquestionable fact, and encourage pupils to see themselves primarily through the lens of race.”
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/crime/pupils-told-it-s-impossible-for-black-people-to-be-racist-to-white-peers/ar-AA23uuDt?ocid=msedgntp&pc=HCTS&cvid=6a0bbb2a90044f21b160c54774b7433a&ei=37
tgusa says
“It is seriously disturbing for white folks to be lobbying to be the interim Mayor in Charlotte.”
Turnabout is fair play. What if I said something like, It is seriously disturbing to have black folks in a restaurant with me? None of us want to go the Chuck E Cheese or Applebees and end up in the middle of a bar fight. And dont get me started on cruise ships, parties and outdoor barbecues, a day at the beach or at a primary school graduation. Black folks are either tone deaf or worse… self-centered! It’s not about YOU! I just twisted around her… “White folks are either tone deaf or worse… self-centered! It’s not about YOU!”
David Lakatos says
Racial equality is not the goal of BLM. They show their true colors as an openly anti-white, racist, anti-American organization that does NOT truly believe that ALL black lives matter.
David Lakatos says
Democrats have had their foot on black people’s necks for over 200 years and are still using them as uaeful idiots.
David Grisez says
The more I hear about Ilhan Omar the more I would like to see her removed from congress, then stripped of her United States citizenship and deported back to Somalia.
Joe1 says
“**all** of her crimes” is a pretty tall order. I once counted 5 different crimes she committed, but it think it is 7, now. A good lawyer could easily double that number by citing crimes that I didn’t.
OLD GUY says
Will she be prosecuted, not likely sadly.
JustJim says
Prosecuted, hell, all I care about at this point is clawing our tax dollars back from the thieving bazztards! Think of how little taxes we would pay, if most of it wasn’t going to fraud!
David Lakatos says
Congress Muslim women Ilhan Omar dictating for the Biden regime the number of refugees America “must accept”—the” highest number in American history. Jihad by mass emigration.
somehistory says
“VP JD Vance drops bombshell: DOJ investigating Minnesota Rep. Ilhan Omar’s marriage history”
The Department of Justice is investigating Representative Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) over potential immigration fraud, Vice President JD Vance announced during a White House press briefing on Tuesday.
The investigation revives long-standing questions regarding Omar’s past marital history and immigration status. While the allegations have resurfaced repeatedly since her initial 2018 congressional campaign, Vance’s announcement marks an official acknowledgment of federal scrutiny into the matter.
“I don’t want to prejudge an investigation,” Vance told reporters at the White House. “It certainly seems like something fishy is there, but everybody’s entitled to equal justice under the law.”
Vance, who heads the administration’s task force on benefit fraud, previously stated earlier this year that Omar “definitely committed immigration fraud.” On Tuesday, he emphasized that the administration would follow the standard legal process. “So we’re going to investigate it. We’re going to take a look at it. If we think that there’s a crime, we’re going to prosecute that crime, and that’s something the Department of Justice is looking at right now,” Vance said.
In response to the announcement, Omar’s chief of staff, Connor McNutt, dismissed the allegations, calling the claim “a ridiculous lie.”
The focus of the scrutiny stems from Omar’s second marriage. In February 2009, she married Ahmed Nur Said Elmi, a UK citizen, in a Christian ceremony in Eden Prairie, Minnesota. Reports over the last decade have frequently raised questions about whether Elmi is actually Omar’s brother. The couple legally divorced in December 2017 without having any children. Omar has rarely commented publicly on the marriage, describing it as a brief relationship where the two lived apart for most of the duration, except for a period between 2009 and 2011.
Omar’s broader marital timeline has also drawn public attention. She originally wed her first husband, Ahmed Abdisalan Hirsi, in an Islamic ceremony in 2002. The couple had three children together but did not legally marry under state law until January 2018.
Public speculation regarding her marriage to Elmi began on an online forum called SomaliSpot, where posts alleging a sibling relationship were later deleted. Furthermore, a deleted Instagram photo published by the Minneapolis Star Tribune previously showed Elmi holding Omar’s third child with a caption referencing “nieces.”
In 2020, Abdihakim Osman, a Minneapolis-based Somali blogger who knew Omar during her youth, stated that Omar had introduced Elmi to community members as her brother from London in the late 2000s, adding that she noted at the time that he was looking for immigration paperwork.”
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/vp-jd-vance-drops-bombshell-doj-investigating-minnesota-rep-ilhan-omar-s-marriage-history/ar-AA23BaMm
somehistory says
“Omar silent when pressed on ties to Minnesota fraud scandal
Dem. Rep. Ilhan Omar refused to answer multiple questions when asked by Fox News Digital if she will cooperate with the investigation. ”
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/omar-silent-when-pressed-on-ties-to-minnesota-fraud-scandal/vi-AA23AUab?ocid=msedgntp&pc=HCTS&cvid=6a0d174ce8c84ed8810b80c94eb50db6&ei=35