townhall.com By Dmitri Bolt
Ilhan Omar has faced some heat over the massive $1 billion fraud scandal in her home district, especially after it came to light that she had close ties to several of the people involved.
For example, one of her staff members was convicted in the scandal, and she held several parties at one of the key restaurants implicated in it. Omar also co-sponsored the MEALS Act (More Efficient and Accountable Local School) of 2020, which relaxed U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) requirements for child nutrition programs during the COVID-19 pandemic and allowed fraudsters in Minnesota to steal $250 million in taxpayer money.
She has also been photographed with several others convicted in the scheme.
“[Rep. Omar] knew who these people were. People she personally knew were making tens of millions of dollars in this program,” Bill Glahn, a policy fellow with the Minnesota-based Center of the American Experiment, told the New York Post. “She had been inside the [Safari] facility on numerous occasions and couldn’t put 2 and 2 together? Either she’s terminally naive, or knew and didn’t care.”
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