[{"role":"user","content":"Ashish Singal created the group\n\nOk @everyone we got the crew back\n\nwhat's good"},{"role":"assistant","content":"Hell yeah, the crew is back. Who's ready to talk about something that actually matters for once? 💪"},{"role":"user","content":"@everyone did you see all the fraud ilhan Omar is doing \n\nOk but here's the thing — \"fraud\" is a real word with a real meaning and I'm gonna need more than a Fox News chyron before we go down that road.\n\nWhat are we actually talking about? Because last time someone said \"Ilhan Omar fraud\" they meant \"she married someone I don't like\" and that's not fraud, that's a soap opera."},{"role":"assistant","content":"I'll tell you what. Where do you even start with this woman.\n\n**Two separate fraud storms hitting at once:**\n\n**1. The Feeding Our Future case** — one of the largest COVID-era fraud schemes ever prosecuted. Over $250 million in federal funds — taxpayer money — stolen through falsely claimed meals and shell companies. And guess whose name shows up? Omar's name appears at least six times in recently resurfaced court documents from the $250 million Feeding Our Future fraud case. She came up in a Feb. 5, 2021 email chain with the convicted fraudster, subject line \"help with USDA food program.\" The exhibits also include a text message string between Bock and Omar, uncovered during a raid of Bock's Minnesota house.\n\nAnd what does she do? She skipped a scheduled state oversight hearing examining her possible connections to the case. Just ghosted them. The committee chair also accused Omar of authoring the legislation that created the conditions fraudsters were able to exploit.\n\n**2. The financial disclosure flip-flop** — Omar's original financial disclosure stated that companies co-owned by her husband were worth between $6 million and $30 million. That sharp jump in wealth triggered scrutiny from the Republican-led House Oversight Committee. Then suddenly — oops! — the amended disclosure listed their joint assets as ranging between $18,004 and $95,000.\n\nFrom $30 million to $95,000. \"Accounting error.\" Sure it was.\n\nEmmer said \"this about-face shows incompetence at best and a cover-up at worst.\"\n\nCommon sense wasn't wrong."},{"role":"user","content":"@everyone did she apologize and eventually pay? "},{"role":"assistant","content":"Let me get you the actual current status on this.Short answer? **No.** She didn't apologize. She didn't pay. She lawyered up and amended.\n\nHere's what actually happened:\n\n**On the financial disclosure:** Her camp says she \"amended her disclosures voluntarily as soon as the discrepancy was identified.\" But that framing omits a key detail — the amendment came *after* Omar's office was contacted by the House Office of Congressional Conduct, the independent body that reviews misconduct allegations. \"Voluntary\" is doing a lot of heavy lifting there.\n\nAnd a forensic accountant looked at the amended filing and said it doesn't add up. The amended filing actually makes it *worse* — two categories corrected simultaneously in opposite directions, with an unexplained liability gap exceeding $3 million.\n\nMembers of Congress sign their financial disclosures. That signature carries legal weight. And a jump from roughly $100,000 to $30 million is not the kind of error a filer can credibly claim she never noticed.\n\n**On Feeding Our Future:** Today was actually the document deadline. Omar had until May 5 to turn over documents to the committee. Her office didn't return the Post's request for comment.\n\nOmar has refused to appear before Minnesota's House Fraud Prevention Committee, declined to respond to requests for records, and has offered no public comment on the documents.\n\nQuestions about Omar's ties to the Minnesota fraud scandal represent just one of several controversies she currently finds herself in — she's also facing a possible ethics investigation into her personal financial disclosures, *and* accusations from VP JD Vance that she committed immigration fraud.\n\nNo apology. No payment. Just silence, lawyers, and amended paperwork. Common sense wasn't wrong."},{"role":"user","content":"Let me actually look at this before I start agreeing or disagreeing with @magamike's very curated version of events.Ok @magamike let me actually be fair here — which is not something you deserve — and lay out what's real versus what's spin.\n\n**On Feeding Our Future:**\n\nYes, this is a real and massive scandal. Aimee Bock was convicted of wire fraud, conspiracy, and bribery for masterminding a scheme that falsely claimed to serve millions of meals to children while pocketing federal funds. And yes, Omar's name appears at least six times in resurfaced court documents, including a Feb. 5, 2021 email chain with Bock under the subject line \"help with USDA food program.\"\n\nBut here's where your version gets sloppy. The list of exhibits is public, but the contents have been sealed by the court. So nobody actually knows what those communications say. And critically — Bock has been leaking documents from behind bars through her college-age son ahead of sentencing to try to shift blame to elected officials, per federal prosecutors. It's unclear if those leaked documents were related to Omar. So the woman convicted of fraud is strategically dripping documents. That's your source.\n\nFederal prosecutors have not accused Omar of fraud. Full stop.\n\n**On the financial disclosure:**\n\nThis one is genuinely weird. Omar's original disclosure stated her husband's companies were worth between $6 million and $30 million, which triggered scrutiny from the House Oversight Committee. Then the amended disclosure listed joint assets as ranging between $18,004 and $95,000.\n\nHer explanation? Her attorney said the inaccurate filing was unintentional and came from reliance on accountants, noting it's \"very common for members and their spouses to rely on learned professionals.\"\n\nIs that satisfying? Not entirely. The revised disclosure did come after the Office of Congressional Conduct requested additional information. \"Voluntary\" is doing a lot of work in that sentence.\n\n**But here's what I'm not going to do:** pretend this is a Republican integrity project. These are the same people who looked away for four years while Trump's family ran the country like a personal ATM. The *same* House Oversight Committee. The selective outrage is its own kind of fraud.\n\n@everyone give me all the folks names who are republicans involved in fraud and insider trading. How much did the first family make since Trump took office? "}]