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2020-03-01 -Lurid Crime Tales-
America Has a Con Woman in Congress‐Where's the Law?
[Mercer at American Greatness] The FBI, which Americans are meant to trust with matters of life and death, is unable‐or unwilling‐to confirm whether U.S. Representative Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) perpetrated fraud by marrying her brother, Ahmed Elmi, to let him obtain a coveted green card, thus granting him permanent-resident status in the United States, and a path to citizenship. But the bureau is reportedly "investigating."

Conversely, the Daily Mail, a British tabloid, had little difficulty gathering a critical mass of facts, enough to conclude that, in 2009, Omar did indeed secretly wed said sibling. The newspaper, and anyone else suggesting the same, has yet to be sued by Omar. Could the story be true?

As it happens, a Somali community leader has also outed Ilhan Omar as an outlaw. Abdihaikm Osman Nur contends that the Somali-born freshman congresswoman "had indeed married her brother." So reported Fox News host Tucker Carlson.

Despite "a lack of paperwork in war-torn Somalia," which complicates an investigation and a definitive determination, the British tabloid dug up the requisite information that the FBI has yet to release. The young man whom Omar is alleged to have married certainly bears a remarkable resemblance to the congresswoman. They’re both . . . pretty (although Elmi looks happier and a lot more festive).

It was in August 2016 that Nur, aforementioned, seconded the story first published by Scott Johnson of the Power Line blog: Omar had married her sibling, ostensibly to allow him to remain in America. As the Daily Mail had relayed, Nur took issue with Omar’s alleged marriage-cum-immigration fraud. It would appear that the British tabloid was more invested in the truth, as this patriotic Somali told it, than was the FBI.

To date, these are the facts on the fraud alleged to have been committed by a member of the U.S. Congress. Yet nobody is likely to do more than mutter at the striking absence of scruples in Ilhan Omar. For not only does she appear to flout the law, but she also offends sensibilities: Omar had first married Ahmed Hirsi, father of her children, in 2002. Bigamy and incest (even if the relationship is unconsummated) are cultural taboos.
Posted by Besoeker 2020-03-01 06:02|| || Front Page|| [11137 views ]  Top

#1 She opposes Trump; ergo the FBI will do nothing. Exposing her as a fraud would be giving aid and comfort to the enemy.
Posted by Herb McCoy 2020-03-01 06:32||   2020-03-01 06:32|| Front Page Top

#2 I assume discussions on the Tsarnaev Bros, MAJ Nidal Hasan, and DNC IT guru Imran Awan formerly of Woodbridge, VA.....will not be necessary.
Posted by Besoeker 2020-03-01 06:42||   2020-03-01 06:42|| Front Page Top

#3 In the old days con men and I suppose con women would work their trade and leave for new unsuspecting area. They were called slickers by the old timers I have met. Today most seem to hold political office and can work unfettered. Obama and Hillery are perfect examples. They can con over and over unfettered.
Posted by Dale 2020-03-01 06:54||   2020-03-01 06:54|| Front Page Top

#4 America Has a Con Woman in Congress

A is a singular. We're dealing with a plural. The more accurate statement would be 'America doesn't have an honest member in Congress' in the singular. They all get there by a confidence game one way or another.
Posted by Procopius2k 2020-03-01 06:54||   2020-03-01 06:54|| Front Page Top

#5 No need to arrest now. It will be more dramatic if she does the perp walk at the Democrat convention
Posted by Lord garth 2020-03-01 07:00||   2020-03-01 07:00|| Front Page Top

#6 I would not be at all surprised to learn that she and her other Muslim Congressional colleagues already have FBI protective details assigned 24/7.
Posted by Besoeker 2020-03-01 07:07||   2020-03-01 07:07|| Front Page Top

#7 I'm told she already has an army of thugs and hitmen, people never in the frame but their presence is felt suddenly by reporters, constituents and critics who dare to cross her.

Her own somalis in her district are shit-scared of her vindictiveness, reach and unaccountability.
Posted by Dron66046 2020-03-01 07:19||   2020-03-01 07:19|| Front Page Top

#8 /\ Perhaps they rotate shifts with the Bureau.
Posted by Besoeker 2020-03-01 07:24||   2020-03-01 07:24|| Front Page Top

#9 ^And in time she can get them into the bureau.

Brrrrr... ! Federal ShaBob of Investigation !
Posted by Dron66046 2020-03-01 07:28||   2020-03-01 07:28|| Front Page Top

#10 Another tent in the Shitshow
Posted by Lex 2020-03-01 08:12||   2020-03-01 08:12|| Front Page Top

#11 Evolution of the Adam Clayton Powell School of Government
Posted by Mercutio 2020-03-01 08:28||   2020-03-01 08:28|| Front Page Top

#12 Ilhan Omar in Service of Islamist Agendas
While serving as a Minnesota state legislator in September 2017, Omar met Erdoğan in a closed-door meeting. She gleefully tweeted about her experience in her native Somali, and it was covered in official Turkish media. The only U.S.-based coverage of the exchange came from a Somali-language newspaper article that explained how Erdoğan concluded the meeting by asking Omar to pledge support for Turkey, before inexplicably being deleted.

In October, Omar voted in favor of two controversial bills that happened to coincide with Turkish foreign policy interests. First, she was the only House Democrat to vote against a bill threatening to impose fresh sanctions on Turkey for its military action in northern Syria.

Second, affirming her allegiance with Erdoğan's regime, Omar abstained on a resolution to condemn the historical Armenian Genocide, which Turkey continues to deny. Omar deflected criticism by arguing that any true acknowledgment of genocide should include the transatlantic slave trade and American Indian genocide.
Posted by Count Galeazzo Untervehr7098 2020-03-01 08:53||   2020-03-01 08:53|| Front Page Top

#13 #2 Let's not forget Boston either.
Posted by Cesare 2020-03-01 09:21||   2020-03-01 09:21|| Front Page Top

#14 So no one has ever been able to get DNA material from the two and confirmed the familial connection? Seriously?
Posted by NoMoreBS 2020-03-01 11:54||   2020-03-01 11:54|| Front Page Top

#15 The first three letters of "Congress" spell...
Posted by charger 2020-03-01 14:51||   2020-03-01 14:51|| Front Page Top

#16 Mark Twain on Congress.
Posted by g(r)omgoru 2020-03-01 15:03||   2020-03-01 15:03|| Front Page Top

#17 Politics enables the long con. It used to be unusual.
Posted by Grunter 2020-03-01 16:09||   2020-03-01 16:09|| Front Page Top

#18 #15 YES, right in front of my face. I find that offensive. I suggest name change.
Posted by Dale 2020-03-01 18:17||   2020-03-01 18:17|| Front Page Top

#19 The author is correct: Elmi does look a lot more easy-going and fun-loving in the family pictures. Like that drinking buddy that's always "getting one over" and never seems to get in trouble for it.
Posted by Secret Master 2020-03-01 21:02||   2020-03-01 21:02|| Front Page Top

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