A Minnesota State representative said, "We have endeavored in multiple ways to get access to [information] because, as everyone knows, Representative Omar had had some role, whether inadvertent or not. She passed the MEALS Act in March of 2020, and that took the guardrails off the federal school nutrition program, which created the conditions for fraud."

Omar has been in the news in recent weeks over an "accounting error" in which she claimed her husband was worth millions, but amended her financial disclosure filing and now claims their assets are worth less than $95,000 after the filing came under scrutiny. His wine business has been shuttered.

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Ilhan Omar is refusing to turn over documents to a Minnesota committee investigating the $250 MILLION Somali "Feeding Our Future" fraud.

According to Google AI:

The Safari Restaurant in Minneapolis was a major site in the Feeding Our Future network, receiving over $16 million in federal child nutrition funds, with its operators accused of serving as a top sponsor for fraudulent meal sites. In 2020, Omar appeared in a video for Somali TV promoting the program and thanking Safari Restaurant for distributing meals, a clip resurfaced during 2026 hearings. Records show Omar's campaign spent nearly $10,000 at Safari Restaurant from 2018 to 2020.

Republican lawmakers accused Omar of facilitating the fraud by introducing the "Maintaining Essential Access to Lunch for Students (MEALS) Act" in 2020, which relaxed eligibility rules for federal meal programs.