Firm Co-Owned By Illhan Omar’s Husband Received $635K In COVID Relief
A political consulting group co-owned by Rep. Ilhan Omar’s husband received nearly $635,000 in coronavirus funds, public records show.
Tim Mynett’s E Street Group LLC was given $134,800 this year as part of the Paycheck Protection Program; he was also given $500,000 in Economic Injury Disaster Loans.
Dem Rep. Omar and Mynett married in March, and just weeks after they tied the knot, his consulting firm was paid $189,000 by Omar’s campaign, The Post reported in July.
Mynett was allegedly Omar’s lover until their affair was exposed last year, while the two were still married to other people.
Ilhan Omar’s husband received $635,000 in Covid-19 bailout money. She also paid him 2.25 million dollars this year.
Remember this the next time @AOC or @IlhanMN rail against corporations, pretending to represent the poor.
They are all liars, getting rich while you suffer.
— Candace Owens (@RealCandaceO) December 7, 2020
Federal Election Commission records show that the progressive lawmaker additionally funneled nearly $2.8 million to her future husband’s firm from early 2019 to July 22, 2020.
Omar’s team also sent $1.6 million to the E Street Group for the third quarter, sending along an additional $27,000 in the weeks that followed. The FEC allows lawmakers to hire family members or spouses to work on their campaigns, but a political ethics expert said the practice creates suspicion and should be banned.
Omar has denied any wrongdoing regarding her relationship with her husband when ethics questions were raised about payments to his firm earlier this year.
“We consulted with a top FEC campaign attorney to ensure there were no possible legal issues with our relationship,” she said in a Twitter post in March, just days after she and Mynett wed. “We were told this is not uncommon and that no, there weren’t.”
This is what happens when rightwing Twitter trolls are treated as authorities on campaign law.
Let’s clear the air.
1. The gov't doesn't fund my campaign. Grassroots donors do.
2. Everything we spend is used for a legitimate expense and paid at fair market value. (Thread) pic.twitter.com/pjBwtfDykz
— Ilhan Omar (@IlhanMN) March 17, 2020
Omar cut professional ties with Mynett in mid-November while still denying any wrongdoing, according to Fox News. The announcement, which came in the form of an email to supporters, was aimed at ending speculation about their work.
Before cutting ties, however, she was by far the E Street Group’s biggest client, according to Open Secrets data, with nearly one in every three of her campaign dollars going to her alleged then-lover’s firm as of last August, according to the Washington Examiner.
Ilhan Omar’s latest husband’s firm received over $600,000 in China Virus relief funds
That’s on top of the MILLIONS she funneled him from her congressional campaign
Why isn’t the activist media covering these blatant conflicts of interest?
RT!
— Charlie Kirk (@charliekirk11) December 8, 2020
Meanwhile, the leftist media is SILENT! Are you sick of the hypocrisy? Stay tuned to 100% Fed Up.