The web connecting Ilhan Omar’s family to Minnesota’s $250 million Somali fraud network just got considerably more tangled — and considerably harder to dismiss as coincidence.
Daily Wire investigative reporter Luke Rosiak has now documented that a person believed to be Sahra Noor — Omar’s sister — incorporated her company, Grit Partners Consulting, at the same address as Ister Ahmed Afraa, one of the central figures in the “Feeding Our Future” fraud. Afraa and her partner Hanna Marekegn claimed to be feeding 4,000 children a day while actually using federal reimbursements to purchase a mansion. Multiple fake front companies — including a bogus childcare business — were incorporated at the same Hyacinth Avenue address where Noor’s company was registered.
Grit Partners Consulting, it should be noted, is not a small-time operation. Sahra Noor publicly states that her company has secured more than $20 million in funding for health initiatives and has consulted on projects backed by USAID and the CDC. The same USAID that the Trump administration shut down for systemic fraud. The same funding apparatus that the “Feeding Our Future” network exploited for a quarter of a billion dollars.
The fraud network operating out of that same address was breathtaking in its scale. A home on Fordham Court connected to the network served as the registered address for 17 different companies that allegedly laundered stolen federal funds. One of those companies, S&S Catering, claimed to have produced more than eight million meals — and enabled the broader fraud by issuing fake invoices that allowed nonprofits to claim government reimbursements for food that was never purchased. The government reimbursed more than $12 million as a result. The Academy for Youth Excellence, also registered out of the same network, allegedly stole $3.5 million in federal funds. Golis Properties allegedly stole $3.9 million and used $2.5 million to purchase an entire city block.
The connections to Omar herself are not new, but they keep deepening. “Feeding Our Future” executive director Aimee Bock — now a convicted felon — has directly implicated Omar, Governor Tim Walz, and Attorney General Keith Ellison in the fraud network. Emails between Bock and co-conspirator Abdikerm Eidleh carried the subject line “Ilhan’s Office.” While Omar was in the Minnesota House, she allocated significant funds to a clinic then run by her sister — raising conflict of interest questions that were never seriously investigated. Trump has stated publicly that he believes evidence implicates Omar directly.
And then there’s the immigration fraud. Omar married her own brother — a federal crime. So the possibility that her sister’s company was incorporated at a convicted fraudster’s address is not, as her defenders might claim, unimaginable behavior for this family.
The DOJ investigation into the broader “Feeding Our Future” network is ongoing. The burn bags from the Obama administration that Trump referenced in his primetime address are under review. And Ilhan Omar’s financial disclosures just erased $30 million worth of assets without explanation.
Every thread in this story leads to the same place. At some point, investigators are going to pull the right one.
