Ethics Complaint Against Rep. Ilhan
Omar Concerning Possible Violations of Federal and State
Law
Dear Chairman Skaggs,
Judicial Watch is a non-profit, non-partisan educational foundation,
promoting transparency, accountability and integrity in government and
fidelity to the rule of law. We regularly monitor congressional ethics
issues as part of our anti-corruption mission.
This letter serves as an official complaint with the Office of
Congressional Ethics (OCE).
Substantial, compelling and, to date, unrefuted evidence has been uncovered
that Rep. Ilhan Omar may have committed the following crimes in violation
of both federal law and Minnesota state law: perjury, immigration fraud,
marriage fraud, state and federal tax fraud, and federal student loan
fraud.
Such violations would also breach the Code of Ethics for Government
Service, to which all federal officeholders are subject, “Any person in
Government service should uphold the Constitution, laws, and legal
regulations of the United States and all governments therein and never be a
party to their evasion.”) Rep. Omar actions in this suspected immigration
fraud, marriage fraud, perjurious statements on her Minnesota divorce
filings, and falsifications on her tax returns, merit your immediate
investigation.
In the words of investigative reporter David Steinberg: “The facts
describe perhaps the most extensive spree of illegal misconduct committed
by a House member in American history.”
The evidence developed against Rep. Omar was the result of a
three-year-long investigation in both the United
States and the United Kingdom by Mr. Steinberg and his investigative
reporter colleagues Preya Samsundar and Scott Johnson. It is supported by
information gathered from public records, social media postings, genealogy
databases, computer forensic analysis, unaltered digital photographs,
discussions between the investigative reporters and the subjects of the
investigation themselves, and information supplied by confidential sources
within the Somali-American community.
Documented-based reporting by Steinberg, et al. has developed the
following information: Rep. Ilhan Abdullahi Omar, a citizen of the United
States, married her biological brother, Ahmed Nur Said Elmi, a citizen
of the United Kingdom, in 2009, presumably as part of an immigration fraud
scheme. The couple legally divorced in 2017. In the course of that divorce,
Ms. Omar submitted an “Application for an Order for Service by Alternate
Means” to the State of Minnesota on August 2, 2017 and claimed, among
other things, that she had had no contact with Ahmed Nur Said Elmi after
June 2011. She also claimed that she did not know where to find him. The
evidence developed by Mr. Steinberg and his colleagues demonstrates with a
high degree of certainty that Ms. Omar not only had contact with Mr. Elmi,
but actually met up with him in London in 2015, which is supported by
photographic evidence. Ms. Omar signed the “Application for an Order for
Service by Alternate Means” under penalty of perjury. The very document
that Ilham Omar signed on August 2, 2017 bears the following notation
directly above her signature: “I declare under penalty of perjury that
everything I have stated in this document is true and correct. Minn. Stat.
§ 358.116.”
Of particular importance are archived photographs taken during a widely
reported trip by Ilhan Omar to London in 2015, posted to her own Instagram
account under her nickname “hameey”, in which she poses with her
husband/presumed brother, Ahmed Elmi. These photographs from 2015 are
documentary evidence that in fact she met up with Mr. Elmi after June 2011
and before the date she signed the divorce document in August 2017, thereby
calling into question the veracity of her claim that she had not seen Mr.
Elmi since June 2011.
Rep. Omar’s potential crimes far exceed perjurious statements made in a
Minnesota court filing.
Rep. Omar’s conduct may include immigration fraud. It appears that Rep.
Omar married her brother in order to assist his emigration to the United
States from the United Kingdom. The same immigration fraud scheme may have
aided Mr. Elmi in obtaining federally-backed student loans for his
attendance at North Dakota State University. Mr. Elmi and Rep. Omar
simultaneously attended North Dakota State University and may have derived
illicit benefits predicated on the immigration fraud scheme.
The State of Minnesota Campaign Finance and Public Disclosure Board has
already determined that Rep. Omar violated state campaign finance laws for
improper use of campaign funds. She was forced to reimburse her campaign
thousands of dollars. More significantly, the Board discovered that the
federal tax returns submitted by Rep. Omar for 2014 and 2015 were filed as
“joint” tax returns with a man who was not her husband, named Ahmed
Hirsi, while she was actually married to Ahmed Elmi.
Under federal law, specifically, 26 U.S. Code & 7206.1, “Any person who
willfully makes and subscribes any return, statement, or other document,
which contains or is verified by a written declaration that it is made
under the penalties of perjury, and which he does not believe to be true
and correct as to every material matter … shall be guilty of a felony
and, upon conviction thereof, shall be fined not more than $100,000
($500,000 in the case of a corporation), or imprisoned not more than 3
years, or both, together with the costs of prosecution.”
Rep. Omar’s federal tax returns must be examined to determine whether any
additional falsifications were made.
Mr. Steinberg,
et al. have engaged in meticulous research and
reporting over a period of years. They have demonstrated with a high degree
of probability that Rep. Ilhan Omar has violated House Ethics Rules,
federal and state laws.
We call upon the Office of Congressional Ethics to launch an investigation
into Rep. Omar’s conduct immediately.
Sincerely,
Tom Fitton, President, Judicial Watch
The sabotage of President Donald Trump’s
deal with Guatemala to alleviate the illegal immigration crisis is part of
a broader problem involving pervasive corruption in the Central American
nation and embedded leftists in the U.S. State Department’s Western
Hemisphere Division. With a compromised electoral system and a presidential
election looming in Guatemala, the impoverished nation of about 16 million
could easily slide into the Cuban or Venezuelan camp of failed socialist
countries. Socialist Sandra Torres, a former Guatemalan first lady and
radical leftist guerrilla, could become the country’s next president.
Why should Americans be concerned? Because Guatemala is essentially the
United States’ southern border, given Mexico’s status as a failed
narco-state with its first leftist president (Andrés Manuel López
Obrador) in decades. Torres will run off against conservative Alejandro
Giammattei in August and if she wins, many believe her leftist
administration will sink the country back into civil war. That will likely
translate into more illegal immigrants heading north, even though hundreds
of thousands of Guatemalans have already been apprehended at the U.S.
border since outgoing President Jimmy Morales, a conservative populist,
took power in 2016. Before Morales’s victory marked a renewal of
conservatism and pro U.S.-sentiment in the country, Guatemala rejected a
resurgence of leftwing leaders throughout Latin America by electing former
General Otto Pérez Molina to the presidency. Guatemalans apparently
learned a lesson after electing their first leftwing president in half a
century in 2007, Álvaro Colom, whose tenure was plagued by rampant
corruption.
A recent poll conducted by Gallup Latinoamerica shows that Giammattei, a
medical doctor who ran Guatemala’s prison system, leads Torres
40.6% to 33.4%. But government officials and other
activists in Guatemala tell Judicial Watch the country’s electoral system
is totally compromised and extremely vulnerable to fraud. They worry that a
rigged Torres victory, with the support of U.S. Ambassador
Luis E. Arreaga, will be disastrous for the
country. Arreaga’s predecessor, Obama appointee Todd Robinson, also
colluded with leftist forces—including a key figure for the violent
Marxist guerrilla known as the Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias de Colombia
(FARC)— to illegally promote changes to the Guatemalan constitution.
Little has changed since the Trump administration replaced Robinson with
Arreaga, according to knowledgeable sources in Guatemala’s private and
public sector. Arreaga was
called to Washington, D.C. in the aftermath of the
failed third country asylum debacle, according to Guatemalan media, but no
further details have been made available. High-level government sources in
the country say Arreaga is a leftist who is doing everything possible to
subvert and sabotage the Trump administration’s efforts to collaborate
with the country in several key areas. Most important among them is
immigration.
This week Trump was scheduled to meet Morales in Washington to sign an
agreement making Guatemala a buffer zone by temporarily absorbing illegal
immigrants seeking asylum in the U.S. Guatemala’s Constitutional Court
reportedly blocked Morales from going through with the deal, but other
forces were at play behind the scenes. A top Guatemalan government source
said the U.S. State Department collaborated with local leftist groups to
kill the planned safe country asylum deal between Trump and Morales.
Judicial Watch has filed
a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request with
the State Department seeking all records related to the planned meeting
between Trump and Morales as well as information involving the proposed
safe third country agreement.
In the last year Judicial Watch has exposed the U.S. government’s
outrageous financial and political support of leftist forces in Guatemala.
Specifically, the government uses taxpayer dollars to back leftwing
billionaire George Soros’ radical globalist agenda in the Central
American nation. In a special
investigative report Judicial Watch provides in
detail the connection between U.S.-funded entities and Soros’ Open
Society Foundations (OSF) to further the Hungarian philanthropist’s
efforts in Guatemala. The goal is to advance a radical globalist agenda
through “lawfare” and political subversion, the report shows. The
American taxpayer dollars flow through the U.S. Agency of International
Development (USAID), which works closely with the State Department and
receives foreign policy guidance from the agency and Secretary of
State.
