Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., is continuing to deny looming questions over an Ethics Committee investigation into her financial filings, showing a significant drop in her net worth.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Scrutiny of Omar’s finances intensified after financial disclosure filings appeared to show her estimated net worth falling from a range of roughly $6 million to $30 million in one filing period to between about $18,000 and $95,000 in a later disclosure.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer, R-Ky., has publicly voiced his interest in the House Ethics Committee opening an investigation into both Omar\u2019s personal finances and her connection to the \u2018Feeding Our Future\u2019 fraud scheme, a scandal that federal prosecutors say cost taxpayers roughly $250 million.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Omar dismissed suggestions that she is facing an Ethics Committee investigation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
“No,” Omar told Fox News Digital, laughing, when asked if she is under an Ethics Committee investigation. “No. We go over this all the time.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n
She was pressed about continued reporting surrounding the discrepancy \u2014 the possibility of the roughly $29 million drop in her financial disclosure.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
“There\u2019s also the possibility that it might rain on this sunny day,” Omar replied.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Along with Comer\u2019s efforts to launch an investigation into Omar, Vice President JD Vance said just last month that the U.S. Department of Justice will be opening a probe into the Minnesota Democrat\u2019s alleged fraud as part of the administration\u2019s new anti-fraud taskforce.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Omar has declined ever being aware of the scheme happening behind doors with the organization, which claimed to be helping supply children in need of meals during the COVID-19 pandemic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The Justice Department described the scheme as the “single largest COVID-19 fraud scheme in the country,” The Associated Press reported. The orchestrator of the non-profit, Aimee Bock, was sentenced to 42 years in prison for her involvement in spearheading the fraud scheme.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Republicans have pointed to Omar’s MEALS Act, part of a federal pandemic relief measure which she sponsored, as a factor they say contributed to conditions that allowed the fraud to occur. They argue her bill was a mass contributor to the fraud occurring as it broadened USDA waiver authority at meal sites. It has also been claimed that this same act helped to dismantle anti-fraud safeguards that verified the people actually being serviced in federal nutrition programs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In a previous statement to Fox News Digital from Omar, she claimed that President Donald Trump\u2019s USDA Secretary, Brooke Rollins, imposed the regulations for the framework of the program.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
While Omar continues to reject suggestions time-after-time that she is facing an Ethics Committee investigation, Republicans have shown little sign of backing away from their demands for a proper investigation into Omar\u2019s finances and fraud allegations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n