00:00Ilhan Omar skipping a hearing used to examine her potential ties to a massive
00:04state fraud scheme and now facing pressure from Republicans as Tom Homan
00:08signals the feds may get involved damn bro Omar is scrutinized over
00:14financials Minnesota fraud scheme the whole file is being reviewed yes a lot
00:20of smart people are on it stay tuned ha ha ha yeah okay man damn dude
00:28Homan on federal probing to Omar stay tuned
00:32safety correspondent Mike Tobin has got the details he's with us in Chicago hi Mike
00:37and John the issue Minnesota Republicans have with her is that Congresswoman Ilhan Omar is not
00:41facing the questions not to reporters not to the Minnesota House Committee on Fraud Prevention
00:45you've got the issue of her family estate disclosures show she and her husband Tim Minette
00:50went from debt to anywhere between six and thirty million dollars in 2024 a few weeks ago a new
00:56disclosure was filed stating their combined assets were between eighteen thousand and
01:00ninety five thousand this is a big fraud the big big big fraud dollars her office
01:06blamed the discrepancy as much as twenty nine million dollars on an accountant who
01:10failed to subtract the liabilities of Minette's businesses then you have the
01:14feeding our future scandal Omar championed the meals act which Republicans say
01:18removed the guardrails meals were billed to taxpayers but never delivered to the
01:21tune of 250 million dollars a player at the center of the scandal is a partner in
01:26what was the safari restaurant Omar safari restaurant in a partner dude dude this is big bad all campaign
01:35and promotion events there the Minnesota House committee wants to ask this video is
01:39from 2018 August questions on both subjects but Omar does not respond yes he is not responding at all
01:46it's another example of disrespecting Minnesotans she thinks she can get away with things like this
01:51because she's you know a powerful politician but Minnesotans are fed up Minnesotans in her district
01:58are fed up they really care about how their money is spent yes how our tax money is spent like
02:06that
02:06into a fraud no never Robbins sent another letter to Omar's office requesting disclosures about
02:14communications with and donations from people convicting in the feeding our futures program
02:19reporters have tracked her down and they never get an answer my team has reached out to Omar's office
02:25also no answer the only communication we've got is that statement from her office blaming the 29 million
02:31dollar discrepancy on the accountant John they would have a lot of problems with accountants
02:37Mike Tubman for us in Chicago yes thank you Mike thank you very much
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