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Former Alpha News reporter looks back at breaking the Ilhan Omar scandal in 2016
Ten years ago, Preya Samsundar was working at Alpha News when she began investigating allegations that U.S. Congresswoman Ilhan Omar married her brother.
Ten years have passed and an official investigation is now finally underway. However, Samsundar — who was one of the first to break the scandal — remains the only reporter to ever receive a response from Ahmed Nur Said Elmi, the man at the center of the story.
Samsundar joined Liz Collin on her podcast to talk about the striking differences — and strange similarities — between then and now along with some of the other controversies surrounding Omar.
"I believe that the reporting that we did 10 years ago was really the loose thread that once authorities started pulling on it, things started to unravel and folks realized that this was probably much bigger than anyone would have imagined,” said Samsundar.
WATCH: Former Alpha News reporter talks about breaking the Ilhan Omar scandal — back in 2016
Ten years ago, Preya Samsundar was working at Alpha News when she began investigating allegations that U.S. Congresswoman Ilhan Omar married her brother.
"I believe that the reporting that we did 10 years ago was really the loose thread that once authorities started pulling on it, things started to unravel — and folks realized that this was probably much bigger than anyone would have imagined,” said Samsundar.
Read all of Alpha News’ reporting on Rep. Ilhan Omar in The Ilhan Files, a collection of articles, investigative reports, and more from Alpha News dating back to 2016.
Read here: alphanews.org/the-ilhan-file…
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Tafoya noted that 200,000 Minnesota Republicans did not vote in the last midterm elections, arguing that Republican turnout could make the difference this year.
Peggy Flanagan "cannot cherry-pick what she’s responsible for and what she is not," Tafoya continued. "This fraud happened under her watch. You don’t get a promotion when that happens."
We give @MBFC_News a low credibility rating
For a decade, @MBFC_News has given @AlphaNews a “low credibility rating” as a news source over our reports on Ilhan’s marriage to her brother. We’ve repeatedly asked them to change their page on us that is filled with inaccurate and outdated information.
The New York Times is now reporting the same information, 10 years later…
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BREAKING: The New York Times reports that an Obama-era investigation found evidence that Ilhan Omar "had entered into a sham marriage with a man who may have been her brother."
"They found evidence suggesting that Mr. Elmi and Ms. Omar were siblings, according to the six former and current officials familiar with the case," the outlet reports.
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Statewide Republican candidates have generally lagged behind their DFL opponents in fundraising, but PACs have spent millions on behalf of GOP candidates.
See the campaign finance facts and figures and PAC contributions for yourself: alphanews.org/heres-a-look-a…
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Former Alpha News reporter looks back at breaking the Ilhan Omar scandal in 2016
Ten years ago, Preya Samsundar was working at Alpha News when she began investigating allegations that U.S. Congresswoman Ilhan Omar married her brother.
Ten years have passed and an official investigation is now finally underway. However, Samsundar — who was one of the first to break the scandal — remains the only reporter to ever receive a response from Ahmed Nur Said Elmi, the man at the center of the story.
Samsundar joined Liz Collin on her podcast to talk about the striking differences — and strange similarities — between then and now along with some of the other controversies surrounding Omar.
"I believe that the reporting that we did 10 years ago was really the loose thread that once authorities started pulling on it, things started to unravel and folks realized that this was probably much bigger than anyone would have imagined,” said Samsundar.