Rep. Ilhan Omar has paid her new husband's company more than $1 million from her campaign in this election cycle.
Omar, a first-term Minnesota Democrat, last quarter funneled $228,000 to the E Street Group, a Washington, D.C.-based consulting firm run by her husband, Tim Mynett, according to Federal Election Commission records released this week.
The payments, which were mostly for digital and fundraising services, came after Omar doled out $815,000 to Mynett's company in 2019 and the first quarter of 2020.
- Omar first hired E Street during her 2018 congressional bid.
- His company has repeatedly been her campaign's highest-paid vendor, accounting for 44 percent of expenditures between April 1 and June 30.
Omar and Mynett announced in March they had gotten married after having denied they were having an affair.
- Soon thereafter, Omar rejected questions about the couple's financial ties, including in a complaint filed with the FEC last August, as "baseless claims and misinformation."
The progressive congresswoman did not immediately respond to a request for comment the payments to E Street.
Omar has also faced scrutiny over a lack of transparency about her two previous marriages, campaign finance violations and a potential violation of House ethics rules regarding the advance she received on her recently published memoir.
According to the latest FEC filings, Omar's Democratic primary opponent Antone Melton-Meaux greatly out-raised her in the second quarter, $3.2 million to $471,000.
