{"id":2688941,"date":"2026-10-21T08:44:58","date_gmt":"2026-10-21T12:44:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/utm_sourcerssutm_mediumrssutm_campaignwashington-post-accidentally-reveals-more-evidence-implicating-ilhan-omar-in-fraud\/"},"modified":"2026-10-21T08:44:58","modified_gmt":"2026-10-21T12:44:58","slug":"utm_sourcerssutm_mediumrssutm_campaignwashington-post-accidentally-reveals-more-evidence-implicating-ilhan-omar-in-fraud","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/utm_sourcerssutm_mediumrssutm_campaignwashington-post-accidentally-reveals-more-evidence-implicating-ilhan-omar-in-fraud\/","title":{"rendered":"WaPo Reveals More Evidence Implicating Ilhan Omar In Fraud"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Futm_sourcerssutm_mediumrssutm_campaignwashington-post-accidentally-reveals-more-evidence-implicating-ilhan-omar-in-fraud%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2688941&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Buried in a report aimed at discrediting ongoing probes into Rep. Ilhan Omar, The Washington Post <a href=\"https:\/\/apple.news\/A8_DcLfdYQQWXxy3apxsHjg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">divulged<\/a> fresh evidence suggesting her previous marriage to her alleged brother, Ahmed Nur Said Elmi, was a sham.<\/p>\n<p>In recounting the first Trump administration\u2019s ultimately inconclusive investigation into some of the same issues federal officials are examining anew concerning the congresswoman\u2019s background, the Post reveals that Elmi once filed a petition to have his residency status, derived from his marriage-based green card, shifted from conditional to permanent. According to the newspaper, U.S. Customs and Immigration Services (USCIS) \u201crequested additional evidence due to concerns over the validity of his marriage,\u201d at which point Elmi pulled his application.<\/p>\n<p>This immediately raises three questions: What was it in that application that gave immigration officials pause? Why was it that Elmi dropped his bid to obtain permanent residency if the marriage was legitimate? And did authorities in the first Trump administration vigorously pursue these issues, and are they vigorously pursuing them now to the extent there are potential legal issues arising therefrom not bound by statutes of limitation?<\/p>\n<p>While the Post mentions this matter in passing, there is critical additional context here that the newspaper omitted, which ties Elmi\u2019s abandonment of his permanent residency push to Omar.<\/p>\n<p>Elmi almost certainly filed and then withdrew an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.uscis.gov\/sites\/default\/files\/document\/forms\/i-751.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">I-751 petition<\/a>. Under <a href=\"https:\/\/www.law.cornell.edu\/cfr\/text\/8\/216.4\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">federal law<\/a>, typically, within the 90-day period before \u201cthe second anniversary of the date on which an alien obtained\u201d a green card, such aliens must file an I-751 to remove conditions on their residency. Absent circumstances like death or divorce, petitioners must file jointly with their spouses. <\/p>\n<p>Elmi and Omar did not legally divorce until 2017, years after he had left the U.S. and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox9.com\/news\/dfl-candidate-ilhan-omar-explains-marital-history-in-statement\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">returned<\/a> to his native United Kingdom. The alleged siblings were married here in 2009. Even if it took an exceptionally long period of time for Elmi to receive his marriage-based green card, that period plus two years almost assuredly would have fallen long before 2017. So presumably, they would have filed their petition jointly.<\/p>\n<p>Per the current <a href=\"https:\/\/www.uscis.gov\/sites\/default\/files\/document\/forms\/i-751instr.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">instructions<\/a> for filing an I-751, petitioners must show evidence that their marriage \u201cwas entered in \u2018good faith\u2019 and was not for the purpose of circumventing immigration laws.\u201d To do so, they must provide a number of supporting documents, like the birth certificates of children, contracts demonstrating joint occupancy\/residency, \u201cfinancial records showing joint ownership of assets and joint responsibility for liabilities,\u201d and \u201cother documents\u201d and sworn affidavits demonstrating one\u2019s marriage is legitimate.<\/p>\n<p>When filing jointly, one\u2019s spouse needs to sign, affirming, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.uscis.gov\/sites\/default\/files\/document\/forms\/i-751.pdf#page=8\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">under penalty of perjury<\/a>, that the petition and all supporting documents are \u201ccomplete, true, and correct.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Enter Ilhan Omar, and key facts that The Washington Post and others appear to have missed. As I documented in my 2020 book, <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/eLDO5sejhS\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><em>American Ingrate: Ilhan Omar and the Progressive-Islamist Takeover of the Democratic Party<\/em><\/a>, during the 2018-19 period, then-State Rep. Ilhan Omar faced an ethics probe resulting in a finding that she had improperly spent $3,400 in campaign funds.<\/p>\n<p>Part of that improper spending centered on legal fees, including to immigration lawyers. Omar hired those attorneys to help her with \u201ccrisis management\u201d beginning in August 2016, when, following her historic primarying of a <a href=\"https:\/\/ballotpedia.org\/Phyllis_Kahn\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">44-year<\/a> Democrat-Farm-Labor incumbent in Minnesota House District 60B, word first began swirling that Elmi was Omar\u2019s brother, and her marriage to him constituted a marriage\/immigration fraud scandal.<\/p>\n<p>In researching my book, I obtained the complete docket pertaining to the ethics probe from Minnesota authorities.<\/p>\n<p>Records produced in that probe indicate Omar\u2019s lawyers submitted FOIA requests to USCIS for documents from immigration authorities in connection with rumors that officials had issued her a summons or were investigating her \u2014 which her counsel thought would be unlikely \u201cunless someone submitted very concrete evidence of fraud to them \u2026 proving her legal husband was a biological brother or something like that.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>What documents did Omar\u2019s team seek out? Well, according to timesheets produced in the probe, they were looking at an I-130 \u2014 a petition for an alien relative to obtain a green card \u2014 and an I-751. Presumably, Omar would have filed the former document to help Elmi obtain a green card, and the latter again to shift his residency status post-marriage from conditional to permanent.<\/p>\n<p>Months later, in March 2017, Omar\u2019s attorneys received the FOIA response. We do not know what records USCIS produced. In a November 2018 deposition, one of Omar\u2019s attorneys indicated that her team was seeking her \u201cimmigration file,\u201d in part to see \u201cif there was any statement of support or anything with regard to her legal husband,\u201d Elmi. The lawyer added, \u201cWe needed to know whether there was any \u2014 is there something in this immigration file that would hurt Ilhan and the campaign?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In a December 2018 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.scribd.com\/document\/412966517\/72-Rep-Ilhan-Omar-Depo#download\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">deposition<\/a>, Omar cryptically indicated that whatever documents her lawyers had received in response to the FOIA, she herself \u201cwould also have [had them].\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI have much more than what \u2026 [her lawyer] would have gotten from them [immigration authorities].\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy father\u2019s still alive, so I have an old man\u2019s storage of documents,\u201d Omar said then.<\/p>\n<p>Omar\u2019s father, Nur Omar Mohamed, also sometimes referred to as Nur Said, has since passed. Whether he made any misrepresentations or omissions in documentation used to enable himself, Ilhan, and several of her siblings to come to the U.S. from Kenya as refugees is now reportedly something authorities are reviewing. While <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2026\/10\/13\/us-news\/ilhan-omars-father-was-loyal-to-somali-dictator-misrepresented-himself-as-a-refugee-source\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">presented as an educator<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtontimes.com\/news\/2026\/oct\/15\/ilhan-omars-citizenship-marriages-finances-give-feds-plenty-avenues\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">by Omar<\/a> in public writings, her father was reportedly a senior military officer under the tyrannical Siad Barre regime, which had a Marxist-Islamist orientation and engaged in numerous atrocities.<\/p>\n<p>In the raid of her current D.C. home, federal agents are said to <a href=\"https:\/\/nebraska.tv\/news\/nation-world\/federal-probe-targets-rep-ilhan-omars-immigration-history-agents-raid-dc-home-citizenship-minnesota\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">have seized<\/a> Omar\u2019s cellphone, notebooks, computers, and passport. It is possible they also secured documents of the kind Omar suggested her father held years prior.<\/p>\n<p>The then-state representative in her deposition, said regarding the FOIA\u2019d documents that she \u201ccan\u2019t even remember if [her immigration attorney] actually produced anything, but he might have just been, like, we looked at it and she [Omar] has nothing to worry about. You guys are going to be fine. Ilhan isn\u2019t being deported.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Reports <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/politics\/policy\/ilhan-omar-investigation-aims-to-build-case-for-stripping-her-citizenship-6adf1edc\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">suggest<\/a> that at least one leg of the current federal investigation may end in an attempt to denaturalize and deport Omar over immigration-related offenses. Those offenses do not appear to include the alleged sham marriage to her husband. The associated offenses may be beyond relevant statutes of limitation.<\/p>\n<p>There has long been <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/democrats\/yes-ilhan-omar-married-her-brother\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">evidence<\/a> raised by the likes of conservative journalists including David Steinberg, Powerline\u2019s Scott Johnson, and Preya Samsundar <a href=\"https:\/\/www.powerlineblog.com\/archives\/2019\/07\/david-steinberg-tying-up-loose-threads-in-the-curious-case.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">calling<\/a> into question the legitimacy of Omar\u2019s marriage to Ahmed Nur Said Elmi. <\/p>\n<p>This includes Elmi\u2019s flamboyance; the fact that he and Omar are both apparently Muslims yet were married by a Christian minister; a raft of since-deleted social media posts suggesting they are siblings and that Omar has lied including under penalty of perjury about their contacts; residence <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/2173704\/dozens-of-documents-indicate-ilhan-omar-lived-with-ahmed-hirsi-while-claiming-to-be-married-to-ahmed-elmi\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">records<\/a> indicating Omar was living with supposed ex-husband Ahmed Hirsi, the father of her then-two children and Elmi (with whom she had no children and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.startribune.com\/new-documents-revisit-questions-about-rep-ilhan-omar-s-marriage-history\/511681362\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">whom she divorced Islamically<\/a> just two years after her civil marriage and a year before reuniting with Hirsi and having another child with him) at the same time, and as Omar and Elmi were both <a href=\"https:\/\/alphanews.org\/evidence-confirms-rumors-candidates-marriages\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">pursuing<\/a> their education at North Dakota State University; and Omar\u2019s evasiveness and unwillingness to present documentary evidence of the authenticity of her marriage to Elmi.<\/p>\n<p>The Post\u2019s new revelation regarding Elmi\u2019s petition to remove conditions on his residency adds a compelling new piece of evidence to this potential scandal.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>   Ben Weingarten is editor at large for RealClearInvestigations. He is a senior contributor to The Federalist, columnist at Newsweek, and a contributor to the New York Post and Epoch Times, among other publications. Subscribe to his newsletter at weingarten.substack.com, and follow him on Twitter: @bhweingarten.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Buried in a report aimed at discrediting ongoing probes into Rep. Ilhan Omar, The Washington Post divulged fresh evidence suggesting her previous marriage to her alleged brother, Ahmed Nur Said Elmi, was a sham. 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