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Minnesota Panel’s Bid to Subpoena Ilhan Omar Fails by One Vote

The chair says federal subpoena power offers a path the state lacks.

Overview

  • The Minnesota House fraud committee fell one vote short Tuesday of the two‑thirds needed to subpoena Rep. Ilhan Omar for records tied to the Feeding Our Future case.
  • Omar did not provide the requested emails, texts, and meeting notes by the May 5 deadline that Chair Kristin Robbins set in an April 22 demand letter.
  • Lawmakers sought communications about Minneapolis’s Safari Restaurant as a meal site, contacts with nonprofit leader Aimee Bock, and messages with ex‑Omar staffer Guhaad Hashi Said who has pleaded guilty.
  • Robbins said she will ask House Republicans to consider a federal subpoena next because the state panel has little power to compel a sitting member of Congress.
  • FOX 9 reported prosecutors listed early‑2021 emails between Bock and Omar’s office as trial exhibits, and federal agents in late April searched 22 Minnesota sites in a fraud probe that has produced dozens of convictions, while Omar has not been accused of a crime.