Minnesota Congresswoman under fire for campaign payments to romantic partner
Ilhan Omar paid another $147,000 to married lover's consultant group in addition to hundreds of thousands for other services previously reported amid calls for a federal election probe
- Congresswoman Ilhan Omar of Minnesota paid her political consultant and lover $147,000 for services, in addition to hundreds of thousands in other payments
- Peter Flaherty, chairman of the conservative National Legal and Policy Center in October filed an an amended complaint into Omar's campaign spending
- In that complaint, he already had told the Federal Election Commission that Omar made more than $369,000 in payments to Mynett since August of 2018
- Nearly $25,000 was for travel expenses, according to records filed with the FEC. If the payments helped the affair, then they were made for personal reasons
- FEC regulations prohibit the use of campaign funds for personal expenses to cover travel, unless personal funds are later used to reimburse the campaign
- Flaherty wants the FEC to investigate, but the commission has yet to take action due to understaffing which lawmakers have not addressed
By Ralph R. Ortega and Martin Gould
US Congresswoman Ilhan Omar paid her political consultant and lover almost $147,000 more for services than had previously been known, according to reports.
The payments were in addition to hundreds of thousands of dollars she gave to the company which had already been reported.
Omar's campaign funneled $146,713 into finance chief Tim Mynett's consulting firm, 'The E Street Group' for digital advertising, fundraising consulting and video production, records show, reports the New York Post.
That's how much more the 38-year-old Minnesota lawmaker's campaign pumped into Mynett's firm since Peter Flaherty, chairman of the conservative National Legal and Policy Center in October filed an an amended complaint into Omar's campaign spending with the Federal Election Commission.
Flaherty requested an investigation after DailyMail.com's revelation of an affair between Omar and Mynett, which led to her divorce from her husband Ahmed Hirsi.
Read more at Daily Mail.
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