Emmer warns Ilhan Omar will ‘be held accountable’ if found to have committed fraud

House Majority Whip Tom Emmer (R-Minn.) said Tuesday that Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) will “be held accountable to the fullest extent” if it is discovered that she was involved in or benefited from “any fraud.” 

His remarks follow a Wall Street Journal report that a financial disclosure listed her and her husband’s assets at between $6 million and $30 million. Omar’s office later told the outlet the filing contained a “discrepancy,” and an amended version put the couple’s assets at between $18,004 and $95,000, the Journal reported. 

“Omar is saying the multimillion-dollar discrepancy was nothing more than an accounting error. In what world is a multibillion-dollar correction to a person’s financial disclosure considered normal? Perhaps this member’s accountant, perhaps Ilhan’s accountant, is a graduate from the Quality Learing Center. Either way, this about-face shows incompetence at best and a cover-up at worst,” Emmer told reporters during a press briefing on Tuesday. 

“Make no mistake, if Ilhan Omar is discovered to have been involved in any or to have benefited in any way from any fraud, she must be held accountable to the fullest extent,” Emmer added.

A lawyer representing Omar wrote in a letter to the Office of Congressional Conduct (OCC) that, “While the error is of course unfortunate, there is nothing untoward and nothing illegal has occurred,” according to the Journal. 

But the situation has only intensified GOP scrutiny of Omar. She has long been a target of Republican criticism, with backlash mounting earlier this year over reports of an alleged sprawling fraud scandal in Minnesota, in which many people charged were of Somali descent. Prosecutors claim that billions of dollars were stolen by various groups that purported to have provided meal assistance for children in need, in addition to other social safety net services that were reimbursed through state agencies. 

House Oversight Committee Chair James Comer (R-Ky.) told Fox News’s Sean Hannity on Monday that, “She’s never explained to the public how her net worth was $30 million and if she made a mistake, how the mistake happened.”

“It’s highly unlikely that she made a mistake. This isn’t going to go away from her. So we’re going to continue to try to push for answers and see if her name pops up in any of these frauds that Vice President Vance and the House Oversight Committee are detecting in Minnesota,” he said.

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