Biden DOJ's probe into Ilhan Omar's finances dropped same year her net worth surged



Rep. Ilhan Omar, a radical Minnesota Democrat who has in recent years been accused of immigration-related fraud, is facing scrutiny over her finances — with some officials wondering how her net worth apparently surged so much over such a short period of time.

While the liberal media has characterized the government's recent interest in Omar's finances as a partisan vendetta, sources familiar with the matter told the New York Times that the Biden Justice Department similarly felt the need to take a look at the Somali-born ethno-nationalist's finances, campaign spending, and interactions with a foreign citizen.

'I am not a millionaire.'

One source who spoke on the condition of anonymity told the Times that the U.S. attorney's office in Washington, D.C., and the DOJ's public integrity unit initiated the probe in June 2024. Although that was the year Omar's net worth skyrocketed, the Biden DOJ's probe supposedly stalled "for lack of evidence."

President Donald Trump, who suggested in November that Omar "shouldn't be a congressman, and we should throw her the hell out of our country," noted in a Truth Social post on Monday that the Justice Department and Congress are "looking at 'Congresswoman' Illhan Omar, who left Somalia with NOTHING, and is now reportedly worth more than 44 Million Dollars."

Trump added, "Time will tell all."

House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer (R-Ky.) told the New York Post earlier this month that congressional lawyers are looking into how Omar and her husband, Tim Mynett, went from being virtually broke to having a net worth of around $30 million in just a year.

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"There are a lot of questions as to how her husband accumulated so much wealth over the past two years," Comer said. "It's not possible. It's not. I'm a money guy. It's not possible."

A source in federal law enforcement also insinuated that Omar was under investigation.

"We are investigating all politicians potentially connected to any of this [fraud] in Minnesota. You can read between the lines," the source told the Post.

Within months of flatly stating, "I am not a millionaire," Omar reported assets — chiefly a winery in California and her husband's investment firm, Rose Lake Capital — valued between $6 million and $30 million in her 2024 financial disclosure.

This could reportedly represent up to a 3,500% increase in net worth in 2024 compared with 2023, when she reported assets valued between approximately $40,000 and $250,000.

The year before she took office as the U.S. representative for Minnesota's 5th congressional district, Omar had an estimated net worth of -$45,001, according to Open Secrets. Court filings cited by the Post indicated that Mynett's investment firm only had $42.44 in its bank account as of 2022.

"There is no way such wealth could have been accumulated, legally, while being paid the salary of a politician," Trump said last week.

The base compensation for most senators, representatives, and delegates is $174,000.

Omar responded to the renewed interest in her finances by suggesting that "years of 'investigations' have found nothing" and that Trump was "panicking."

She also noted in a recent TikTok video that "the value range listed for the assets reflects the full cost assessment of the businesses, in which my husband is one of several partners, and does not reflect his individual share."

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ANOTHER Black Lives Matter scam exposed: Oklahoma leader accused of blowing funds on trips, real estate, shopping sprees



The leftist identitarian organization Black Lives Matter has long been attractive to bad actors keen to manufacture outrage and cash in on liberal guilt. While some BLM activists have already been exposed as criminals, it appears the rot goes far deeper.

The Justice Department announced on Thursday that a federal grand jury has indicted the executive director of Black Lives Matter Oklahoma City, Tashella Sheri Amore Dickerson, on charges of wire fraud and money laundering.

'It is not about me at all.'

Dickerson, a 52-year-old pro-abortion and pro-Palestinian activist, is accused of embezzling millions of dollars and blowing various funds on recreational travel, shopping, real estate, and even a new vehicle.

Although not itself a registered tax-exempt organization, BLMOKC was apparently able to accept charitable donations through its affiliation with the Open Society Foundations-supported leftist organization Alliance for Global Justice — its fiscal sponsor — on the conditions that it use its funds only as permitted by Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code and account for the disbursement of all funds received upon request.

The indictment alleges that the BLMOKC under Dickerson began hitting people and organizations up for cash in a big way around the time of the deadly 2020 BLM riots, ultimately raking in over $5.6 million.

Dickerson told the Oklahoman in July 2020, "It is very humbling to be able to serve my community and help people in this manner. But I also understand it is not about me at all. That it is all about being community."

The DOJ indicated that BLMOKC was supposed to use grant money from national bail funds to post pretrial bail for race rioters, though it was sometimes permitted to keep some or all of the bail money when returned for the purposes of establishing a revolving bail fund or in service of its supposed "social justice mission."

It turns out Dickerson had other ideas.

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According to the indictment, from June 2020 through at least October 2025, Dickerson allegedly embezzled funds from the BLM chapter's coffers, depositing at least $3.15 million in returned bail checks into her personal accounts.

Rather than use the funds for so-called social justice or to spring thugs from jail, Dickerson allegedly blew the money on trips to Jamaica and the Dominican Republic; on costly retail shopping sprees; on a personal vehicle registered in her name; and on six real estate properties either deeded in her name or in the name of an entity she alone controlled.

Dickerson, who apparently had access to the group's bank, Paypal, and CashApp accounts since its inception in 2016, also allegedly spent at least $50,000 on food deliveries for herself and her kids.

The indictment alleged further that Dickerson, adding insult to injury, repeatedly submitted false annual reports to Alliance for Global Justice, claiming that she had used the BLM chapter's funds only for tax-exempt purposes.

"We seek to combat and counter acts of violence, create space for black sustainability and creativity, advocate for non-racist, non-oppressive policies, demand justice, and develop black power," states the website for Dickerson's BLM chapter.

The website's donation page was still up at the time of publication.

Dickerson has been charged with 20 counts of wire fraud and five counts of money laundering. For each wire fraud charge, the BLM activist faces up to 20 years in federal prison and a fine of up to $250,000. For each of the money laundering charges, she faces up to 10 years in prison and a fine of up to $250,000.

Dickerson indicated in a Facebook video on Thursday she was not in custody and that she was "fine." While she suggested she could not make an "official comment" about the indictment, she said, "A lot of times when people come at you with these types of things … it's evidence that you are doing the work. That is what I'm standing on."

The indictment in Oklahoma comes just months after Massachusetts-based BLM activist Monica Cannon-Grant pleaded guilty to three counts of wire fraud conspiracy, 10 counts of wire fraud, one count of mail fraud, and two counts each of filing false tax returns and failing to file tax returns.

The race hustler, whose Violence in Boston organization partnered with BLM, duped people into thinking she was helping reduce violence and promoting social awareness, when in fact, she was using their donations to enrich herself. She also defrauded the Boston COVID-19 relief fund, the Boston Office of Housing Stability, and other institutions.

Last year, BLM activist Tyree Conyers-Page of Ohio was convicted of wire fraud and money laundering. Prosecutors indicated that Conyers-Page defrauded donors of more than $450,000 that they collectively gave to his "Black Lives Matter of Greater Atlanta" organization, which he falsely claimed was a nonprofit.

WPDE-TV reported in May 2023 that federal tax filings from 2020 to 2022 revealed only $30 million of the $90 million BLM raised went to other charitable organizations; $22 million went to expenses; $1.6 million went to BLM co-founder Patrisse Cullors' father for security service; and $2.1 million went to BLM board member Shalomyah Bowers for consulting.

While activists sued the organization in the wake of reports that BLM co-founders Cullors, Alicia Garza, and Melina Abdullah treated themselves to a $6 million mansion in Southern California with donation money, their suit was dismissed in June 2023 by a judge who concluded their "complaint fails to sufficiently allege the how, when, where, to whom, and by what means" misrepresentations were tendered.

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'We did not just lose, we got blown out': Stacey Abrams' campaign owes over $1 million after rejection by voters



Twice-failed Democratic gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams recently suggested that she may soon test whether voters have the resolve to reject her a third time. However, in the interim, she will first have to deal with the financial fallout of her latest political blunder.

A new report, confirmed by Abrams' two-time campaign manager, Lauren Groh-Wargo, has revealed that Abrams' campaign owes over $1 million to various vendors.

What are the details?

Abrams' political machine has been long mired in scandals concerning its finances.

For instance, Politico revealed in October that the law firm belonging to Abrams' campaign chairman, Allegra Lawrence-Hardy, got paid $10 million in legal fees for services rendered to the Georgia Democrat's nonprofit group, Fair Fight Action.

The legal team was unsuccessful and the group's lawsuit failed in federal court, but that's not what ultimately raised eyebrows. The $10 million payment, flagged as exceptional, raised concerns about a possible conflict of interest.

Abrams' Fair Fight PAC announced earlier that month that it would look into an entirely different but similarly questionable matter: why the inexperienced friends and family of its director were getting enriched while maintaining other full-time jobs.

Now, Abrams' campaign, which raised over $103 million in her latest losing race against Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp (R), is facing scrutiny over its debts and the Democrat's failure to budget responsibly.

According to the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, the Abrams campaign rented a so-called "hype house" in an expensive neighborhood intended for TikTok streamers. The house was rarely used.

The campaign also paid for a "swag truck" and pop-up shop without a deployment strategy to speak of.

One Democratic official told the Journal-Constitution, "It's incredibly bad planning, and it shows where their values are at."

Georgia Democratic operative Chris Huttman told Axios that Abrams "was running a campaign where there's always been more money in the future that can fix the mistakes of the past."

Huttman noted that this is a "well-documented pattern" for Abrams, given that she also ran out of other people's money during her 2018 primary.

Groh-Wargo told Axios that the campaign, facing a "cavalcade of negative press and negative polling," resorted to working with brokers to sell off its donor lists and voter contact databases to help pay down the debt.

While on the hook to vendors, the campaign cut most of its 180 full-time staffers' paychecks.

"Of course, I would have loved to do a lot of things differently," said Groh-Wargo. "But I had to move as fast as possible. We tried to do the best we could to make sure that help would be there for folks."

A former staffer told Axios that people linked to the campaign panicked after the pay cut: "They have no idea how they're going to pay their rent in January. ... It was more than unfortunate. It was messed up."

The unceremonious cuts made losing by over 297,000 votes even harder for members of Abrams' team to bear.

"We did not just lose, we got blown out," said Groh-Wargo. "It was the most sub-optimal situation to be in. And we will be dealing with that situation for some time."

Staffers' disdain may be the least of Abrams' concern.

The Washington Free Beacon reported earlier this month that the the Abrams-run New Georgia Project (NGP) has been collecting donations without a license in at least nine states, exposing itself to potential fines and criminal inquiries.

Fines for violating these states' charity laws could range from $25 dollars to $25,000, with penalties possibly applying to each donation received by the group, formerly led by Sen. Raphael Warnock (D-Ga.).

Can Jordan Peterson be TRUSTED?



You have probably heard of Jordan Peterson, the Canadian Psychiatrist who has made a name for himself with his ability to reach young men in an age where many young people seem lost.

In this clip, Steve Deace explained his belief that no one in Western society has done a better job identifying the symptoms within civil society than Jordan Peterson. But is he trustworthy? Is he a grifter? These are the questions asked on Monday's episode of "The Steve Deace Show."

Deace began answering the question by defining the words "trustworthy" and "grifter." "First of all," Deace started, "I don't know how you can think that Jordan Peterson is a grifter." Steve found the more intriguing question was whether or not Peterson was trustworthy. Deace believed that Peterson had correctly identified the problems in society, but Peterson only seemed to address the symptoms.

Deace later explained that the more difficult question would be if Jordan Peterson understands what we are up against at a societal level. Someone can be a person of sincere character and goodwill and still not be trusted completely. Deace said that Peterson has correctly identified the symptoms of our diseased society. If we are left to rely on Jordan Peterson to make a mark in the arena of ideas, we can trust Peterson completely.

"If you want Jordan Peterson to fight alongside you, you could do much worse than Jordan Peterson," said Deace.


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