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Curt Schilling Arrested – Allegedly Involved In Crowdfunding Fraud

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Today’s Five is now receiving reports that ex-Red Sox pitcher Curt Schilling has also been arrested and is in custody. Although charges have not been announced as of yet, the arrest comes after alleged involvement with Steve Bannon.

Public announcement of his arrest is expected shortly.

Steve Bannon, along with Brian Kolfage, Andrew Badolato and Timothy Shea have each already been arrested and charged this morning. All 4 men are facing up to 20 years in prison for their involvement in the “Build The Wall” campaign. A campaign that allegedly made fraudulent promises to Trump supporters and funneled in millions of dollars.

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Curt Schilling, arrested this morning, was identified as a member of the “Advisory Board” on Steve Bannon’s shell website.

You can see the whole “team” here.

“According to the indictment, which you can read here, the four men allegedly used fake invoices and sham “vendor” arrangements, among other schemes, to ensure, “as Kolfage noted in a text message to Badolato, that his pay arrangement remained ‘confidential’ and kept on a ‘need to know’ basis.” While Kolfage publicly promised he would “not take a penny in salary or compensation,” he is accused of covertly taking more than $350,000 for his personal use. Bannon is accused of receiving over $1 million, “at least some of which Bannon used to cover hundreds of thousands of dollars in Bannon’s personal expenses.” – Source

This isn’t the first time Curt Schilling has been found involved in some sort of fradulent scheme.

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In fact it’s at least the third or fourth time.

In 2016 Curt Schilling settled a lawsuit in which he had used false financial projections on his video game business.

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“The long, winding saga of baseball star Curt Schilling’s massive business failure in the video game industry may finally be reaching its end. As The Associated Press reports, Schilling and other former executives at 38 Studios have agreed to pay $2.5 million to the state of Rhode Island to settle outstanding claims of defrauding the state out of $75 million in loans.” – Source

His actions then stemmed into multiple lawsuits.

The financials he lied about led a lot of investors and developers to make extremely bad decisions. Offices were relocated, stocks were traded, in the end there were a lot of rich (and former rich people) very mad at Curt Schilling.

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In general the New England area had grown to hate him despite his time on the Red Sox.

Funneling $75 Million from the state is directly hurting the average citizen.

Wells Fargo was in a lot of hot water too due to Curt Schilling’s shenanigans.

“Wells Fargo was accused of concealing from investors that 38 Studios would face a $25 million shortfall even after the October 2010 bond offering from Rhode Island Commerce Corp, a state economic development agency.” – Source

We will see just how involved Curt Schilling was in the “Build The Wall” scheme. He was involved enough to be arrested. Due to his status as a public figure it is likely we will not hear the charges until early next week.

Man Arrested For Putting Fake Arrows On Floor Of Ikea And Creating A Labyrinth With No Exit

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According to Chicago PD, Sylvester Schwartz, age 33, was arrested at an IKEA yesterday afternoon.

Customers who had been lost for hours inside the store had called police for help. On arrival they saw Schwartz and a friend (a minor who was also arrested, name not released) filming a “TikTok” video of the chaos they had created.

Schwartz told the responding officers everything and expected them to see it as a prank. To his surprise he was arrested, and is now facing charges of harassment and false imprisonment.

“It was the most terrifying experience of my life” Explains shopper Susan who experienced the ordeal “We all are following the rules to keep each other safe, I could not leave the store because I could not leave the yellow tape or go backwards. At one point I just sat and cried.”

Many on Twitter are hoping the book gets thrown at him.

One tweet said: “Joking about social distancing during a pandemic for a TikTok? He deserves the chair…”

A bit harsh, in my opinion. I doubt he will get the death penalty but we will see if Schwartz sees any jail time for this stunt.

TikTok has removed the video from its platform.

Gender Reassignment Surgeries Deemed ‘Non-Essential’ During Coronavirus, Trans Community In Uproar

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“Gender reassignment surgeries have been deemed “non-essential” by most health providers, including the UK’s NHS, for trans people these surgeries can hugely reduce gender dysphoria and improve quality of life.

As the coronavirus pandemic spreads, more and more trans people are taking to Twitter and Reddit to share their frustration at having long-awaited healthcare cancelled.”Source

The coronavirus pandemic has taken it’s toll in various forms to almost all groups of people at this point. The trans community however feels they are not being heard. President of the American Transexual Alliance (ATA), Tammy Sparks, has been encouraging followers of her organization to start taking a stand.

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“This has gone on far too long” Explains Tammy, “The people of the trans community have needs, they have medical procedures that they must complete or they will die. Their condition from a medical standpoint is no different than someone with diabetes or asthma. If they don’t receive the proper treatment, they will die. For them, having their gender reassignment surgery as scheduled is the treatment they need. If these surgeries keep getting pushed back it won’t be hundreds of deaths. It will be thousands. Thousands of trans people will die unless this discriminatory decision is reversed.”

Of course a lot are arguing that these surgeries aren’t technically life saving. The ATA is equating the potential deaths to the amount of suicides they claim will occur if these surgeries are not made a priority. According to the ATA over 40% of trans people who do not get their surgery in time will commit suicide.

Others claim not having the surgery physically can kill you.

Tammy explains, “You have to understand what’s going on here, these people get ready for months for this surgery. It’s a very psychological thing. When it doesn’t go as planned, it can ruin you.”

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The ATA seems to have alienated a lot of potential support after they issued the message over Twitter that more people will die from the postponement of gender reassignment surgeries than will die from Coronavirus. Essentially implying that this issue is more important than the pandemic itself. A claim that they themselves have since retracted.

Still, the fight continues for Tammy Sparks and the ATA.

“We will not rest, we will not sleep, we will not stop making noise until we are given the rights and respect we deserve.”

Entire Atlanta Police Department Walks Out This Morning, No Officers Responding To Calls

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There were rumors this would happen, this could lead to a dangerous day in Atlanta.

Reports from Atlanta are now telling us there is not a single cop on call in the entire city of Atlanta. A department wide walkout has been successfully planned.

This walkout from the Atlanta Police Department obviously comes in the wake of the Rayshard Brooks shooting.

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“The Atlanta Police Department says it is “experiencing a higher than usual number of call outs with the incoming shift” on Wednesday. The call outs follow the Fulton County District Attorney’s decision on charges against an ex-officer and current officer in the shooting death of Rayshard Brooks.

“We are getting calls now that two zones are looking to walk out,” Vince Champion, International Brotherhood of Police Officers.

FOX 5 News received several tips that officers were walking off the job en masse, something Atlanta police were quick to correct.”FOX 5 Atlanta

I kind of expected most people to consider this a bad thing, but both liberals and conservatives seem OK with it.

The main issue of course is that some of these calls actually will be urgent. Domestic violence, muggings, etc will all continue. Issues that this country and Atlanta had regardless of race tensions.

MTA Worker Attacked By Rats, Coronavirus To Blame?

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Experts say the uncharacteristic aggression in the rats and the Coronavirus pandemic are related. According to affiliates of Today’s Five, An MTA worker was attacked by a pack of around 30 rats over Memorial Day Weekend.

Ryan Fischer, 35, has been an engineer and safety inspector for the MTA for over 10 years. Fischer reports the attack happened in the subway tunnel near 42nd and Lexington while he was inspecting the R line, he is unsure which station at the time he was closest to, but knows he was out alone inspecting the train line near the entrance. The attack happened on Saturday, Fischer estimates it was around 2 am.

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Rats are emerging from the subways and into the streets for the first time in years.

“It was definitely late, I was doing a quick check before heading out.” Explains Fischer, “I turned the bend and with my flashlight saw at least forty or fifty rats all crawling all over each other and eating some large carcass. Seeing that caught me off guard big time.

Like we see rats all the time, but like I was definitely caught off guard because usually its one or two max and they scatter when you put the light on them, but these guys didn’t seem to notice me so I did watch for a bit.

Then I felt things crawling up my legs, there were like three or four rats climbing up the back of my legs, they were so fast too it was unreal. Before I could start running they were scratching at my neck. I turned my flashlight and there were rats literally everywhere.

There were altleast 30 of them jumping at me and latching on but I had long pants and a jacket of course so I was swiping off most of them, by the time I got out of the tunnel all but a few had retreated, kicked the last two. Never ever have I seen rats act like this.” – Fischer

Fischer only had a few minor injuries from the experience and after an examination from the hospital was released within hours. Fischer overall seems to be un-phased by it, but he is not the first to a notice a change in the behavior of NYC rats.

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“The rats are becoming aggressive toward people, and toward each other,” Bobby Corrigan, an urban rodentologist who has both a master’s degree and Ph.D. in rodent pest management, said on Sunday. “They’re simply turning on each other.” – NYT

What Does Coronavirus Have To Do With Rats?

To put it simply, with everyone quarantining from Coronavirus, the rats have no garbage to eat.

“As restaurants and other businesses have closed during the coronavirus pandemic, rats may become more aggressive as they hunt for new sources of food, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention warned...Dr. Corrigan said there are certain colonies of rats in New York that have depended on restaurants’ nightly trash for hundreds of generations, coming out of the sewers and alleys to ravage the bags left on the streets. With the shutdown, all of that went away, leaving rats hungry and desperate.” – NYT

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Why Do You Need To Worry About Rats?

Well, first of all, the CDC is literally saying to worry.

Also…

“They are hungry,” said Robert Villamil, owner of Crow Pest Control. “Rats are wild and are looking for food and trying to survive. Rodents are moving away from empty restaurants and bars where they used to find food and scurrying into residential areas.” – Source

So apparently they are migrating into residential areas. As of now this is still preliminary, there have not been any rat attacks in suburban homes. This is something the CDC and pest control agencies in each state will monitor.

4 Manhattan Teens Toss Firework On Sleeping Homeless Man, Killing Him (Video)

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*Warning, the following is graphic.*

NYPD is now on the lookout for the 4 teens involved in the recorded murder of a sleeping homeless man in Harlem.

Detectives say it is clear there are atleast 4 involved in the incident, but it is likely that there were others in the vicinity who played a role as well.

The homeless man was dismembered from the blast. Currently the city is unable to identify him.

NYPD is asking for any and all tips leading to the capture and arrest of the attackers.

Unfortunately, this is not the first of these types of attacks. It has turned into a game among certain urban neighborhoods. “Homeless Hunting”.

“New York City announced a multi-agency crackdown on illegal firework Tuesday, after people shooting them off in neighborhoods across the city has been a rampant problem for several weeks. Video from around 4 a.m. Monday shows one of the recent incidents, in which two men are seen throwing a firework at a 66-year-old homeless man who was sleeping. The firework then explodes. The NYPD is investigating, saying the man is in stable condition.” – (Taken from ABC 7 Description On Youtube Video)

“Video from around 4 a.m. Monday shows one of the recent incidents, in which two men are seen throwing a firework at a 66-year-old homeless man who was sleeping.

The firework then explodes. The NYPD is investigating, saying the man is in stable condition. A $2,500 reward is being offered for information that could lead to an arrest.

It is just one of more than 13,000 complaints involving illegal fireworks received by the city this month — compared to just 32 between June 1 and June 22 in 2019 — leaving many fed up and sparking a drive-by protest with horns honking outside Gracie Mansion overnight.

In response, Mayor Bill de Blasio announced the creation of a task force to crack down on illegal fireworks sales.” – ABC 7

2 Children Hospitalized After Parent Attempts Disinfectant Advice From President Trump

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Laura Mullins, 32, of Bastrop, Louisiana had called 911 after her son had a seizure late Friday night. By the time the ambulance was on scene, her second son was also experiencing an onset of violent seizures. Both children were unconscious by the time they had arrived at the hospital. Both children experienced Grand mal seizures and had dangerously high fevers while being admitted into the ER. The cause of this freak scenario was soon uncovered when Laura told EMT’s on the scene she had began administering small injections of disinfecting bleach to both of the boys just that morning.

Laura Mullins was detained that night on 3 charges of child endangerment and 2 charges of attempted murder in the 3rd-degree. According to the police report Laura Mullins had purchased a syringe and box of needles from a local CVS and was injecting what she referred to as “small doses” of Clorox disinfecting bleach into the deltoid muscle of both children every 2 hours since 10 A.M. that morning.

Both children, aged 8 and 10, are now in stable condition.

Laura Mullins has explained to authorities that she had begun this new regimen after learning on “Twitter and Fox News” that injecting disinfectant into a humans body was an effective way to prevent Coronavirus.

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Police Sargent of Bastrop, Eric Rafters, does not believe this is enough of an excuse.

“Even though I consider it irrelevant I did go back and watch the presidents remarks on injecting disinfectant as a preventative measure” explained Rafters, “but what happened here was child abuse. Pure and simple. She used a needle to inject her children with poison.”

Now, Trump did not specifically suggest to American people that they inject themselves with disinfectant. Here is the actual quote-

“Supposing we hit the body with a tremendous, whether it’s ultraviolet or just very powerful light — and I think you said that hasn’t been checked but you’re going to test it.

And then I said supposing you brought the light inside the body, which you can do either through the skin or in some other way. And I think you said you’re going to test that, too. Sounds interesting.

I see disinfectant, where it knocks it out in a minute, one minute, and is there a way we can do something like that by injection inside, or almost a cleaning. Because you see it gets in the lungs and it does a tremendous number on the lungs, so it’d be interesting to check that. So you’re going to have to use medical doctors, but it sounds interesting to me. So, we’ll see. But the whole concept of the light, the way it kills it in one minute, that’s pretty powerful.” – Chicago Tribune

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It is fair to say that Laura Mullins committed this act on her on accord. Although Trump did touch upon the possibility of injecting a disinfectant into a human, Laura Mullins still followed through with the action of purchasing a syringe a needle and proceeding to fill it with Clorox and inject her children with it.

It is an act so absurd and unspeakable that blaming it on the words of anyone, even the president of the United States, doesn’t seem right.

Trump Posted Casting Call On Backstage For “Black Males” To Attend Tucson Rally

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First revealed on Instagram by @doriwaymer, evidence has leaked that the Trump campaign team posted a casting call to Backstage for black males aged 22-35 to attend his rally in Tucson for $250 each.

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Other requirements included wearing Trump gear and participating in the rally (Though that was a given).

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Backstage is a platform used by freelance actors, models and other entertainers to find gigs.

Incase people think this is photoshop, you can Google it yourself. Here is a video below for when that eventually gets removed from Google.

According to inside reports from Today’s Five sources, the posted ad was supposed to be on the backend. Aka the area where only listed guild actor members can access.

However, since the offer was only posted for $250, it ended up on the front end for the general public to apply for.

@doriwaymer reached out to Backstage about the Trump listing and received a reply that the ad was removed from the website. Under the terms that there was no entertainment aspect of the listing.

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Here is the full caption written by @doriwaymer:

“I don’t usually post stuff like this directly to my page but I’m just beyond shocked. I’m an actor and have been out of work due to the Coronavirus since March. I don’t know what pushed me to go look at backstage this morning, but I logged on and found this while scrolling. While millions of actors and artist have been unemployed for months and are facing at least another 8 months of an industry shutdown due to the pandemic, the Trump campaign is using Backstage (a platform actors and artist use to find auditions and jobs) to find and pay black people to attend his rally’s. BIG YIKES…… PLEASE VOTE! Vote like lives depend on it because at this point, they do! iwillvote.com

Lil update

“Hey Dori! We just wanted to reach out and give you an update on your recent post. Thank you for the concern about this posting on Backstage. This notice was never approved by Backstage and was removed within a couple hours for violating our policies. We do not allow casting notices promoting attendance to promotional events, they must have a performance component.” -backstage
Boom”

Snopes Blindly Defends Wayfair And CEO With No Evidence

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Creator of Today’s Five joined podcast “The Rabbit Hole” this week to defend the claims in this article, as well as demand answers from mainstream media outlets who are protecting Wayfair and the CEO.

What If The Wayfair CEO Actually Doesn’t Know Anything?

So let’s give Niraj Shah the benefit of the doubt. Even for one second.

We know that Wayfair is an online eCommerce platform. It operates similarly to sites such as Overstock, QVC, and Amazon. They allow third party sales to occur on their site. Once you make a seller account with them, you can upload products to your own account and sell them through Wayfair.

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So let’s say Wayfair was being used as an online catalog for child trafficking. In theory it is possible that the CEO of Wayfair and the higher ups had no idea that this kind of activity was taking place on their site.

However Wayfair still owns the platform. It is their responsibility to put an end to this even if there is a one in a million chance that it is true. Everyone is aware that human trafficking is a rampant problem. Everyone also knows we have no idea how it’s all happening. Yet when we find a possible lead everyone is so quick to call it completely bogus? Even when the Wayfair CEO steps down? If that is going to be the mentality every time an accusation about human trafficking is made then we will never put an end to it.

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If Niraj Shah actually cared about saving human lives, he would realize this might be an actual thing. Instead, before the CEO of Wayfair steps down he will try to save stock value.

Why has Niraj Shah not given an explanation for the missing girls names? Or the missing items on the front-end of the site?

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It’s because he is either in on it or does not know. If he does not know, then denying the accusations right now is simply evil. If you have lost control of your platform shut down the site and invite the FBI to do an investigation. Right now it looks like Wayfair is hiding something. If the Wayfair CEO steps down, then we know they are.

Then he needs to admit that. And stop saving face. Every minute he tries to save face over this are minutes we could be saving children.

While on the topic of taking human trafficking accusations seriously…

Shame On You Snopes

Snopes.com used to be one of my favorite debunking sites. In over 10 years I had never seen them get a story wrong. They wait months saying “undecided” before they put a “false” or “true” tag on a rumor sometimes. However with this one, they were ready to close the case before the CEO even gave an explanation.

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Here is the statement from Wayfair CEO that was apparently enough for Snopes to call this “False” within 3 hours.

“There is, of course, no truth to these claims. The products in question are industrial grade cabinets that are accurately priced. Recognizing that the photos and descriptions provided by the supplier did not adequately explain the high price point, we have temporarily removed the products from site to rename them” – Snopes

Are you kidding me? First of all the cabinets were NOT accurately priced, that has already been proven. Second, the cabinet pricing was only the tip of the iceberg. And it is the only thing the CEO of Wayfair addressed.

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“We reached out to Wayfair for more information about the expensive pillows and shower curtains, but have yet to receive a response.”Snopes

Seriously Snopes? You don’t think that is weird? That they won’t even talk about the other products? Why won’t you even mention the baby books that were 11k-15k?

“We reached out to Yandex for more information about the “src usa” search term, and will update this article accordingly.” Snopes

Again, waiting on more information. Don’t say it is false yet then!

“The claim that Wayfair is trafficking children is based almost entirely on one person’s confusion over an expensive cabinet. This conspiracy theory, like so many conspiracy theories, started with a wild and unfounded assumption that would be sickening if it were actually true. As of this writing, absolutely no credible evidence has been offered to back up this accusation.”Snopes

This is the kicker. How dumb do you think your readers are, Snopes? “Based almost entirely on one person’s confusion over an expensive cabinet”. Did you not look into the conspiracy at all? Or are you just trying to downplay it? If the Wayfair CEO steps down will you look back into this?

Or the fact that they were dealing directly with detention centers! Extremely disappointed in Snopes. And have lost all respect for them as the Wayfair CEO steps down and they continue to call this false with little to no research.

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When The Wayfair CEO Steps Down We Will See If Their Story Changes

Snopes did not even address the children’s names. They ignored the fact that the same SKUs were duplicated at varying prices with no descriptions or MSRP matching the manufacturers data. Snopes did not mention the fact that these cabinets could only be found on the back-end by searching through Google. These items could not be found on the front-end of their site. Check this video to see.

Instead, Snopes would rather just tell the masses that they aren’t smart enough to understand expensive cabinets.

“No credible evidence has been offered to back up this accusation”. Oh so now you operate like Courts System? Innocent until proven guilty without a doubt? Why do you even have the “Undecided” option then? Such a joke…

Did Ilhan Omar Actually Marry Her Brother?

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I have to admit something going into this one. Generally when a controversy such as this one comes across my desk I expect it to be a quickly ruled out conspiracy. Not this time. Did Ilhan Omar marry her brother? According to Snopes, it’s actually extremely possible. Also, respects to Omar’s late father, but this is a different subject entirely.

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“In 2016, when it looked like Ilhan Omar stood a good chance of becoming the first Somali-American elected to the Minnesota state House of Representatives, rumors swirled that she had married her brother in an illegal effort to facilitate his obtaining U.S. citizenship status.

The rumor about Omar’s brother that surfaced during her 2016 Minnesota campaign followed her as she assumed her new leadership role representing Minnesota’s 5th congressional district in the U.S. House of Representatives in 2019″ – Snopes

Then this video dropped:

According to the audio in the Tweet, Ilhan Omar did not only marry her brother, but married a second man as well to ensure she would receive her green card into the United States.

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Off the bat this sounds like a right-wing birther conspiracy, but then why is Snopes unable to disprove the claims?

Did Ilhan Omar Marry Her Brother?

Ilhan Omar says that while she did marry her brother, it was not a legal marriage. It was a marriage for her family and religion. Not one that is recognized under court of law.

I’m not sure why she took that route instead of just saying it all wasn’t true. But that left the door wide open for critics from the right. What’s even weirder? It seems the right doesn’t care too much. President Trump included.

“Trump himself mentioned the allegation that Omar had married her brother on July 17. Talking to reporters before boarding Marine One, Trump said, “There’s a lot of talk about the fact that she was married to her brother. I know nothing about it.

In a June 23 article, the Star-Tribune wrote that it “could neither conclusively confirm nor rebut the allegation that he is Omar’s sibling.” That echoed the conclusion by Snopes.com in February 2019, that “the evidence uncovered thus far isn’t definitive enough to come down on one side or the other.” PolitiFact was unable to reach a conclusion during the 2018 election cycle.”PolitiFact

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So that is now both Snopes and Politifact that have stated there is not enough evidence to disprove whether Ilhan Omar did or didn’t marry her brother to get citizenship into the United States. Two very reputable news sources that both political sides will trust. It is suspicious to say at the very least.

Why Did The FBI Get Involved?

Around 2017, the FBI opened an investigation to try and reach a conclusion.

Right-wing bloggers claimed that Omar is married to two men for immigration fraud purposes, and one of them, Ahmed Nur Said Elmi, is her brother.

Omar shot down these allegations as “disgusting lies.”

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Omar was engaged to Ahmed Hirsi in 2002, however, the congresswoman said that she and Hirsi did not legally marry until 2018. She and Hirsi split in 2008, but reunited in 2012, even though Omar was legally married to Elmi until 2017.

Two FBI agents reportedly held a meeting last October after a concerned source handed over documents in relation to her 2009 marriage to Elmi. They were said to discuss the claims that Omar married Elmi, a British citizen, so he could obtain a green card and study and work in the United States.” – The Sun

So allegedly the FBI had proof that Ilhan Omar did marry her brother at some point. The question then became did she do it to gain illegal citizenship into the United States? After all, marriage fraud is punishable by five years in jail and a fine of up to $250,000.

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Although agents were said to pass on the information to Immigration and Customs Enforcement and the Department of Education, government agencies have not confirmed the existence of an investigation or the potential to open one in the future.” – The Sun

So apparently the FBI decided to just drop it too. Maybe it’s too much of a hassle to start that kind of investigation and trial on a politician currently in office.

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