Flashback: Ilhan Omar Linked to Minnesota Ballot Harvesting Scheme – Somalis Paid Cash for Their Ballots

Earlier this month, investigative reporter Nick Shirley reported on the numerous fraudulent Somali daycare centers in Minnesota that are being paid millions each year from the US federal government.

Shirley exposed an alleged Somali daycare center that reaped in $4 million a year – that did not appear to have any children.

FBI Director Kash Patel announced he would surge agents to Minnesota to investigate allegations of fraud raised on social media, including by Shirley. Shirley, for example, posted a photo of one purported day care center, which displayed a banner identifying it as “The Greater Learing [sic] Center.”

Shirley and his crew discovered over $110,000,000 in fraud in ONE day in the Minneapolis-St. Paul area.

In 2020, James O’Keefe and Project Veritas revealed a massive ballot harvesting scheme involving political allies and associates of Rep. Ilhan Omar,” according to the organization.

In undercover footage released at the time, the investigative journalists at Project Veritas found that Omar’s campaign manager Ali Isse Gainey was a key player in the ballot harvesting scheme.

The footage shows a man named Liban Mohamed saying that he was collecting the ballots to help his brother win the city’s Aug. 11 special election for a vacant Ward 6 city council race—which was held the same day as the primary for Omar’s MN-05 congressional seat.

BREAKING: @IlhanOmar connected cash-for-ballots harvesting scheme EXPOSED

“Money is the king in everything”; harvester boasts harvesting HUNDREDS of 2020 absentee ballots ILLEGALLY! “Numbers do not lie…these here are all absentee ballots…my car is full…”#BallotHarvesting pic.twitter.com/cB2Bz31mSY

— James O’Keefe (@JamesOKeefeIII) September 28, 2020

“Numbers don’t lie. Numbers don’t lie. You can see my car is full. All these here are absentees’ ballots. Can’t you see? Look at all these, my car is full. All these are for Jamal Osman… We got 300 today for Jamal Osman only,” said Liban Mohamed in a series of Snapchat videos posted July 1 and July 2 on his own Snapchat profile.

Mohamed continued on to say that “Money is everything. Money is the king in this world. If you got no money, you should not be here period. You know what I am saying.”

“Ballot harvesting is real and it has become a big business. Our investigation into this ballot harvesting ring demonstrates clearly how these unscrupulous operators exploit the elderly and immigrant communities—and have turned the sacred ballot box into a commodities trading desk,” Project Veritas founder James O’Keefe III said in a statement accompanying the video release.

O’Keefe added, “We are showing Americans what is really going on in one of our great cities—but, it’s not me saying—we have the operators on tape saying it all themselves.”

Omar Jamal, political insider active in the city’s Somali community, had reached out to Project Veritas to expose the scheme.

“It’s an open secret,” he said. “she [Omar] will do anything that she can do to get elected and she has hundreds of people on the streets doing that.”

“I’m afraid it’s already too big to stop, you know, maybe it’s too late. Maybe it’s already too big to stop,” Jamal added. “There’s a lot of people invested in this, you know, and they don’t care how they did it: ‘We win,’ and that’s it.”

Jamal explained that Omar operatives request ballots and fill them out for the voters.

“They come to us. They came to our homes. They said: ‘This year, you will vote for Ilhan,’” he said. “They said: ‘We will make the absentee ballots. We will fill out the forms for you and when you get them back, we will again fill it out and send it.”

According to Project Veritas,, Hennepin County Attorney Jeff Wojciechowski told them on a recorded line the ballot harvesting conduct described to him was “Illegal, and we will be investigating.”

It appears the Somalis in Minnesota were not only cheating the system for billions of taxpayer dollars, but they are also involved in a massive election fraud operation.

The Somalis are not only stealing billions of taxpayer dollars on sham daycare facilities. They are also paying money for votes.

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