{"id":62377,"date":"2026-01-09T11:20:27","date_gmt":"2026-01-09T16:20:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=62377"},"modified":"2026-01-09T11:20:27","modified_gmt":"2026-01-09T16:20:27","slug":"stopping-corruption-at-its-root","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=62377","title":{"rendered":"Stopping Corruption At Its Root"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On Thursday, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thegatewaypundit.com\/2026\/01\/busted-ilhan-omar-tried-slip-1m-fraud-linked\/?fbclid=IwY2xjawPOBDBleHRuA2FlbQIxMQBzcnRjBmFwcF9pZBAyMjIwMzkxNzg4MjAwODkyAAEe1qQe35NMTm8lC0R-DRNGiBjS1eDxvuJsFohgswsvLtQqM8PCQoaAVervIRk_aem_rdC2nDSBiXoAKNsJTjqy8w\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Gateway Pundit<\/a> posted an article that provides one example of how the fraud in Minnesota got started and is continuing.<\/p>\n<p>The article reports:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\" data-start=\"153\" data-end=\"290\"><strong>Another Minnesota money pipeline just got shut down, and this one leads straight back to Rep. <span class=\"hover:entity-accent entity-underline inline cursor-pointer align-baseline\"><span class=\"whitespace-normal\">Ilhan Omar<\/span><\/span>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\" data-start=\"292\" data-end=\"585\"><strong>The funding, which was tucked into a federal spending bill, was purportedly destined for a \u201csubstance abuse clinic\u201d in Omar\u2019s home state of Minnesota.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\" data-start=\"292\" data-end=\"585\"><strong>However, a shocking investigation led by Senator Joni Ernst (R-IA) revealed that the \u201cclinic\u201d was anything but legitimate.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\" data-start=\"292\" data-end=\"585\"><strong>During an interview on Fox Business, Senator Ernst detailed the absolute absurdity of the proposal, describing a trail of red flags that would make any honest taxpayer\u2019s blood boil.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\" data-start=\"0\" data-end=\"401\"><strong>\u201cWhat I uncovered the other day, in one of our spending bills making its way through Congress, was a $1 million earmark from Representative Ilhan Omar of Minnesota.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\" data-start=\"0\" data-end=\"401\"><strong>\u201cThis earmark was supposedly going to a substance abuse clinic, which actually happened to be housed in a restaurant and run by three individuals who share the same residential address, according to their IRS paperwork. Tons of red flags.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\" data-start=\"403\" data-end=\"772\" data-is-last-node=\"\" data-is-only-node=\"\"><strong>\u201cSo this is what we saw with the fraud involving the daycare centers. Now we see other earmarks coming directly from members of Congress where it seems fraud is being perpetrated as well.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p data-start=\"403\" data-end=\"772\" data-is-last-node=\"\" data-is-only-node=\"\">It&#8217;s very easy to tuck earmarks into thousand-page bills that no one has time to read. It&#8217;s time that Congress passed bills that were less than five pages long and were limited to one topic.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"403\" data-end=\"772\" data-is-last-node=\"\" data-is-only-node=\"\">The article notes:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>As scrutiny intensified over Rep. Ilhan Omar\u2019s role in directing taxpayer funds to questionable Minnesota entities, attention also focused on her family\u2019s abrupt and dramatic rise in wealth.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>According to a bombshell\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2025\/12\/27\/us-news\/ilhan-omars-hubbys-30m-firm-quietly-scrubs-names-from-website-as-squad-member-faces-mounting-questions-on-sudden-wealth-amid-minnesota-welfare-fraud\/\">report<\/a>\u00a0from the New York Post, Rose Lake Capital, founded by Mynett in 2022, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thegatewaypundit.com\/2025\/12\/ilhan-omars-husbands-30m-firm-scrubs-names-website\/\">scrubbed the details of nine key figures<\/a> between September and October 2025.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>The list included high-profile Democrats like former Obama Ambassador to Bahrain Adam Ereli, ex-Senator and Obama Ambassador to China Max Baucus, DNC Finance Chair associate Alex Hoffman, former DNC treasurer William Derrough, and Keith Mestrich, the ex-CEO of Amalgamated Bank, which he once called \u201cthe institutional bank of the Democratic Party.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>None of these individuals has been charged with any fraud. However, the timing coincides with federal prosecutors announcing charges against eight more suspects in the massive Minnesota welfare scam, six of whom are of Somali descent.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>Omar, a prominent member of the far-left \u201cSquad,\u201d entered Congress in 2019 with a net worth between negative $25,000 and negative $65,000, burdened by student loans and car debt with no assets to her name.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Ilhan Omar will continue to be elected because of the voter fraud in her district. I think it is time that the Justice Department spent some time with her.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Thursday, The Gateway Pundit posted an article that provides one example of how the fraud in Minnesota got started and is continuing. The article reports: Another Minnesota money pipeline just got shut down, and this one leads straight back &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=62377\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[7544,11956,768,18986,18985,16238,18987,11716,8321],"class_list":["post-62377","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-earmarks","tag-ilhan-omar","tag-minnesota","tag-minnesota-welfare-scam","tag-rose-lake-capital","tag-senator-joni-ernst","tag-substance-abuse-clinic","tag-the-gateway-pundit","tag-the-new-york-post"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62377","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=62377"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62377\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":62380,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62377\/revisions\/62380"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=62377"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=62377"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=62377"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}