Ilhan Omar has been paying her husband’s firm $2.7 million in campaign donations. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Under most of your community property laws, that means she’s been paying herself a whole lot of money. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
And yet while prospering mightily from Omar’s campaign (they grossed $4 million in the 2020 cycle, a nearly 25-fold increase on the firm’s 2018 billings), they received Covid payroll stimulus money<\/a>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n Public records<\/a> show that E Street Group, co-owned by Omar\u2019s husband, Tim Mynett, received nearly $135,000 in Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) loans and $500,000 in Economic Injury Disaster loans. \u2026<\/p> Public records show that E Street Group, co-owned by Omar\u2019s husband, Tim Mynett, received nearly $135,000 in Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) loans and $500,000 in Economic Injury Disaster loans.<\/p> Federal Election Commission filings also show that the firm received payments for other campaigns, including $175,000<\/a> from the committee of Rep. Pramila Jayapal, D-Wash.<\/a>, and nearly $130,000<\/a> from the Minnesota Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n When Democrats say “never waste a crisis”…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Ilhan Omar has been paying her husband’s firm $2.7 million in campaign donations. Under most of your community property laws, that means she’s been paying herself a whole lot of money. And yet while prospering mightily from Omar’s campaign (they grossed $4 million in the 2020 cycle, a nearly 25-fold increase on the firm’s 2018 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,320,255],"tags":[403],"class_list":["post-76055","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-democrats","category-mndfl","category-the-racket","tag-ilhan-omar"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76055","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=76055"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76055\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":76056,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76055\/revisions\/76056"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=76055"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=76055"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=76055"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}