Federal Election Commission filings also show that the firm received payments for other campaigns, including $175,000 from the committee of Rep. Pramila Jayapal, D-Wash., and nearly $130,000 from the Minnesota Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party.
Omar pledged in mid-November that she was cutting ties with her husband’s firm and the payments were made before that. Before their marriage in March, Mynett’s firm was already doing work for Omar’s campaign.
Omar said in a mid-November email that she was cutting ties with the firm to put an end to questions about the connection between her campaign and his business.
She has repeatedly denied any wrongdoing in respect to her relationship with Mynett, despite court filings from Mynett’s ex-wife and concerns over inappropriate spending to further Mynett and Omar’s extra-marital affair.
In the filings, Beth Mynett stated that dates and travel expenses paid for by Omar’s campaign lines up with their involvement which led to the couple’s divorce.
Moreover, this is not the first time that Rep. Omar has run into a sticky situation with campaign finance issues. An order required her to reimbursed her campaign $3,500 and pay a $500 fine for violating state regulations while serving as a member of the Minnesota House of Representatives.
