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REPORT: Rep. Ilhan Omar Filed Taxes With Her Now-Husband While Married To Someone Else

Emily Zanotti

Rep. Ilhan Omar’s (D-MN) private life has been the subject of some scrutiny before (fairly or unfairly), but a new discovery about Omar’s tax returns has shifted focus on to the Minnesota legislator’s complicated family situation, and whether her relationships may have led her and her now-husband to violate federal law.

Last week, a Minnesota campaign finance review board released a report detailing a months-long investigation into whether Omar violated Minnesota ethics laws. But, according to The Hill, the report also speculated that Omar and her husband, Ahmed Hirsi, filed joint tax returns in 2014 and 2015 while Omar was still legally married to another man.

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