Oh no!
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Critics allege Omar “married her brother,” framing it as immigration/marriage fraud. The core claim is that Omar’s 2009 legal husband, Ahmed Nur Said Elmi, was allegedly her brother and that the marriage was a sham to help him obtain or maintain U.S. immigration status. This allegation remains publicly unproven and disputed. Reports also describe an earlier religious marriage to Ahmed Hirsi (not legal) in 2002, a religious divorce in 2008, and then a religious and legal marriage to Elmi in 2009. Omar divorced Elmi in 2017. Other reports state that Omar later legally married Hirsi in early 2018, after the divorce from Elmi was finalized.
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Minnesota campaign finance officials publicly disclosed that Omar and Hirsi filed joint tax returns in 2014 and 2015 — before they were legally married and during a period when Omar was still legally married to Elmi (tax fraud and bigamy). Filing a joint return when you are not legally married violates both state and federal law.
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There are also allegations that Omar used campaign funds for personal matters, including legal work connected to taxes or research into immigration records. In 2019, campaign finance officials found irregularities and fined her $500. She also had to repay her campaign committee nearly $35,000, including $1,500 for payments made to an accounting firm for services related to joint tax returns for 2014 and 2015.
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Omar’s father has also been accused online of having been a Somali war criminal and of being unlawfully present in the U.S. Although these claims have not been proven, it is also true that reliable documentation can be exceedingly difficult to obtain from countries like Somalia.
These allegations are worth pursuing through the appropriate legal channels. It is arguably ludicrous that it hasn’t already been done. And it sure would go a long way to restoring trust in our immigration and our justice system, with credible claims either substantiated or definitively put to rest.
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