- Minnesota Rep. Ilhan Omar possibly committed a felony by failing to report income she may have received from her 2020 book deal in her required financial disclosure forms, a watchdog group alleged in a complaint filed Tuesday.
- Members of the House are required to disclose sources of income above $200 in their financial disclosures, but Omar’s filings contain no mention of her book deal, which was reportedly valued at up to $250,000 in January 2019.
- “Representative Omar’s apparent disclosure omissions and misreporting violate House ethics rules, the Ethics in Government act, and possibly 18 U.S.C. 1001, a felony with penalties up to five years in prison for making false statements in a matter before the legislative branch,” the National Legal and Policy Center wrote in a complaint to the Office of Congressional Ethics.
The group, National Legal and Policy Center (NLPC), demanded the Office of Congressional Ethics (OCE) investigate why Omar’s financial disclosures make no reference to the income she may have received from her memoir published in May 2020, as well as the Democratic lawmaker’s apparently gross undervaluation of her new husband’s consulting firm, which raked in nearly $3 million from Omar’s political campaign from 2018 through 2020, campaign finance records show.
