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#new The Minnesota House Fraud Prevention and State Oversight Committee has given Rep. Ilhan Omar until May 5, to hand over documents and answer questions about her possible connections to the massive $9-$18 Billion Somali Migrant Feeding Our Future fraud scandal. #MinnesotaThis demand comes after Omar skipped a committee hearing and ignored multiple calls to testify. The committee sent Omar a letter saying Minnesota taxpayers want straight answers about the fraud committed by her fellow Somali migrants.#minneapolisThe scandal is one of the largest fraud cases in U.S. history. Involved fake meal claims at sites across the state, with money spent on luxury cars, real estate, and personal luxuries along with being sent to Somalia to fund Al-Shabaab t*rrorists. Fast Facts:🔺The committee is now demanding all emails, texts, call logs, meeting notes etc. by the May 5, deadline.🔺Specific requests include communications related to the MEALS Act - which Omar sponsored in 2020 - eliminating safeguards so NGOs could more easily get reimbursed basically without any oversight. 🔺Many point to this as Omar setting up the fraud. Omar also praised Safari Restaurant in Minneapolis as a meal site. 🔺The restaurant’s owners -who received $16 million from fake claims, were l convicted in the fraud 🔺The committee wants records of Omar’s contacts with the restaurant’s owners and staff about applying for the program, joining Feeding Our Future as a sponsor, and making the video.🔺Omar received campaign donations from several Somali migrant fraudsters convicted in the scheme, and the committee wants all communications she had with them. 🔺In addition, her former staffer Guhaad Hashi Said pleaded guilty in the fraud case; the committee wants all related records.🔺Several of Omar’s current or former staff members were named in court documents from the federal case, the committee also wants those emails and texts.🔺Additional demands cover the producer of her video and a 2021 Xogmaal Media video supporting Safari Restaurant during its fight with state education officials. 🔺People the committee wants documents and all communications from:Abdihakim Ali AhmedAbdikadir Ainanshe MohamudAhmed Abdullahi GhediBuled BuraaleAbdirahman Mohamud AhmedSade Osman HashiMahad IbrahimGuhaad Hashi SaidAimee BockAbdikerm EidlehAbdulkadir SalahAbdulijabar HusseinHanna MarakgenSharon RossSharmake JamaAyan JamaZamzam JamaAbdi SalahAbdimajid NurNajmo AhmedSahra NurAbdul AliBekam MerdasaYussuf AliKhadra AbdiAisha HusseinQamar HassanMohamed HusseinAyan AbukarLul AliLiban AlishireMohamed NoorAbdulkadir AwaaleSharmarke Issa#ChristinaAguayoNews