Fresh court exhibits from the massive $250 MILLION Feeding Our Future fraud trial have revealed that Rep. Ilhan Omar’s name appeared MULTIPLE times in email chains and text messages with convicted fraudster Aimee Bock, the mastermind behind the largest COVID-era fraud scheme targeting children’s nutrition programs.
According to trial exhibits unsealed in Aimee Bock’s case, Omar’s office was directly involved in communications with the fraud ring.
According to resurfaced trial exhibits from Bock’s 2025 conviction on wire fraud, conspiracy, and bribery charges, one email chain between Bock and Omar’s office was literally titled “Ilhan’s Office.”
Another email from February 2021 carried the subject line “help with USDA food program,” right in the middle of the massive scam that funneled hundreds of millions in federal pandemic funds to fake meal sites, luxury cars, jewelry, and overseas real estate, according to the New York Post.
Text messages recovered during a raid of Bock’s Minnesota home also show direct communication between the fraudster and Omar’s congressional staff.
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A few days after Bock’s email to Omar, on Feb. 28, Bock exchanged messages with Abdikerm Eidleh, a Feeding Our Future employee who fled the country after he was indicted in 2022. The subject line of their emails was “Ilhan’s Office,” according to the court documents.
While the list of exhibits is public, the contents have been sealed by the court.
The exhibits also include a text message string between Bock and Omar, which was uncovered during a raid of Bock’s Minnesota house, records show.
Bock has been leaking documents from behind bars through her college-age son ahead of her sentencing to try to shift some of the blame to elected officials, Minnesota federal prosecutors have alleged.
It’s unclear if those leaked documents were related to Omar.
WATCH:
HOLY CRAP. Rep. Ilhan Omar’s name appeared MULTIPLE times in an email chain with a $250M FRAUDSTER, with one titled “Ilhan’s Office”
Yet she has REFUSED to turn over documents to the Minnesota fraud committee. We need federal subpoenas!
– Received donations from Feeding Out… pic.twitter.com/Q5xonmUtVv
— Eric Daugherty (@EricLDaugh) May 9, 2026
But that’s not all. Omar’s campaign received donations from multiple Feeding Our Future defendants, cash she only returned after the indictments started rolling in.
A former Omar staffer, Guhaad Hashi Said, pled guilty to his own role in the fraud scheme, admitting to running a bogus food site that pocketed millions.
And don’t forget the Safari Restaurant connection that screams “pay-to-play.” Omar celebrated her 2018 primary victory at the very same Somali-owned Safari Restaurant in Minneapolis – a key Feeding Our Future site later convicted of stealing over $16 million by claiming millions of “phantom meals” that never happened.
The restaurant’s co-owner, Salim Ahmed Said, used the stolen funds for a $2 million mansion and $9,000 monthly shopping sprees at Nordstrom while kids supposedly went hungry.
Omar even appeared in a resurfaced video at the restaurant praising the program in Somali, right as the fraud was exploding.
Minnesota Republicans are now demanding federal subpoenas after Omar reportedly refused to cooperate with a state fraud investigation examining her office’s communications with individuals connected to the sprawling scheme.
Minnesota Republican Rep. Kristin Robbins has now formally asked the House Oversight Committee, chaired byJames Comer, to subpoena Omar’s office communications.
Robbins wrote that Omar had “documented ties” to individuals involved in the scheme and said state investigators were blocked from obtaining key records after Democrats opposed subpoena efforts in the Minnesota legislature.
