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Ilhan Omar: “If there was a linkage in the money that they had stolen…”

Featuring: Ilhan Omar, Democratic | U.S. House Minnesota, District 5

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Rep. Ilhan Omar says any link between alleged Somali fraud and terrorism is a "failure of the FBI"

Published | Video Starts at 04:27

How confident are you that that's a false claim? I'm pretty confident at the moment because there are people who have been prosecuted and who have been sentenced. If there was a linkage in the money that they had stolen going to terrorism, then that is a failure of the FBI and our court system in not figuring that out. and basically. Charging them with these charges. And so I do know that for many years, this sort of like alarm that there is money being transferred through the airport … (04:27–04:41)

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Asserts that if stolen money was linked to terrorism, it would be a failure of the FBI and court system.

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