Host Trisha Regan reports from the Caribbean on a massive fraud scandal linking Ilhan Omar to "Feeding the Nation," alleging she knew of Medicaid and Medicare fraud schemes upon introducing the bill same-day as her marriage to Timmy. Regan claims Omar's net worth surged to $30 million via husband Rose Lake Capital, while Representative Randy Fine plans to force her expulsion. Citing FBI investigations into Somali agencies for "fraud tourism" and Education Secretary Linda McMahon's condemnation, Regan accuses CNN of ignoring evidence like staffer guilty pleas, insisting these crimes warrant criminal charges and immediate removal from Congress. [Automatically generated summary]
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Live From The Caribbean Boat00:11:40
Okay, we are live, you guys, live on location.
So you're going to have to bear with me.
But this was so important to be on the air today that I didn't care.
I'm actually in the Caribbean right now on a boat.
So if it looks a little off kilter, you can blame the boat, not me.
Welcome to the program.
I'm Trisha.
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We are coming up on the end of the year.
What do you know?
What a great year it's been.
For us, anyway, not so much for one, Ilhan Omar or Tim Waltz or Keith Ellison, for that matter.
I'm talking about the entire state of Minnesota, all the politicians there that now find themselves in all Kinds of trouble as they should because this is one for the history books.
And guess what?
The FBI is blowing all of this wide open.
Well, the FBI and a little YouTuber, yeah, a little YouTuber.
And it's goodness.
See, I told you, like I said, you know, we're on a boat, so if things get topsy turvy, you know why.
Welcome again to the program.
Congress, as we speak, is preparing to kick Ilhan Omar out.
This is actually very serious, and it's in part related to the accusations against her and possibly her husband surrounding what they knew.
Allegedly, about what may go down in history as the largest fraud ever, although California apparently is trying to make a run for it as well.
They got $70 billion missing there.
Thank you very much, Gavin Newsom.
That's really going to play well on your card when you try to secure the Democrat nomination.
I think not.
Anyway, right now, the focus is Minnesota and the focus is Ilhan Omar and getting her out of Congress because if these accusations are in fact true, she may not have any choice.
I mean, like it's the end of the road for one Ilhan Omar as well as for her husband, Timmy.
He's like, Tim must be a very popular name.
What do you know?
Minnesota, another Timmy.
So her Timmy is possibly in some serious trouble as well.
Here's a big article that appeared in Axios pointing out that Randy Fine, he would be the representative Republican actually out of Florida.
He's had it with this woman.
So she took some of his words out of context.
She heard him say something about, you know, if the problem is really the Muslim people, et cetera, like, what are we doing letting them all in?
He was actually referring to the threat of homegrown terror or terror abroad.
And he was saying, we need to be more cognizant of this.
And she took that and ran with it in a fundraising email.
She's like, oh, he wants to wipe us out.
So we got to go after him.
You got to raise money for me, Ilhan Omar, so as to prevent that.
And he was really offended by that.
And he's like, okay, lady, you know what?
I can go after you pretty hard, much harder than it seemed like I was going after you the other day on Capitol Hill.
In fact, I can launch an entire vote and I'm going to, he said, to get you kicked out of Congress because she was the one that introduced the legislation that led to the $250 billion being defrauded.
Yeah, that was kind of a big deal, don't you think?
She was the woman who held all those events at the restaurant or restaurants, plural.
This graphic, actually, that I should, courtesy of my former.
My former employer here, Fox, they make such nice graphics.
I'm going to hand it to them.
We got good graphics too here on the Trish Regan show, but Fox gets the credit on this one.
Held a vance at one of the restaurants named in the fraud case and had a former staffer who was convicted.
Yes, ladies and gentlemen, actually convicted.
So, one of those many, many, what are they up to over 70 right now?
Convictions in all of this.
So, you start to say to yourself, gee, you know, Ilhan, this is adding up to a pretty bad set of circumstances.
On the day you announce your marriage to Timmy, Wyatt, Maya, whatever his name is.
He's the guy who's the campaign manager.
You can't make it up.
And their net worth went from like, you know, $200,000 to $30 million overnight, up to $30 million.
That's what she says she's worth now.
It's like, whoa, because he's got something that he calls a private equity firm.
Let me tell you, I know a lot about private equity.
This ain't no private equity firm.
No, no, no, no.
Rose Lake Capital, gosh, it sounds like one of Hunter's things, right?
It actually strikes me, if you go on the website, as being nothing but a political consultant operation.
With a winery investment.
Apparently, there were allegations of fraud in that investment, too.
Whoa!
I mean, these people, you know, she really met her match there, I guess, if all these allegations prove to be true.
$9 billion, that's the latest and greatest, but people are saying, no, no, it's probably a lot more than that.
We're talking about Medicaid fraud, okay?
Medicaid and Medicare fraud.
We're talking about daycare fraud.
Wait till you see what I show you.
One YouTuber, like, he's going to take Ilhan down.
It's fantastic.
He went into these daycares that don't actually have any kids in them, yet they were getting millions and millions and millions of dollars.
Oh my gosh.
And then, so you got the daycare fraud, you got the Medicaid and Medicare fraud, and you've got, of course, her feeding the nation fraud.
The guy who hosts her victory dinner and gives her money for her campaign, he's one of the guys who's been convicted in all this.
I mean, I can't believe it.
I mean, remember when Donald Trump said the other day those things that he said about Somalians, and I do believe he referred to Ilhan Omar and her friends as garbage?
And then all this comes out.
Gosh, I guess he knew something, right?
For those of you that think I'm too close to the camera, please know if you're just joining, I'm on a boat.
And occasionally the shock goes a little bit like that, and I have no choice.
I have to be really close to the camera.
So you got to see me, see me up close and personal.
By the way, peace of my mind.
Thank you for checking in on me.
Some of you guys were worried.
You're like, where's Trish?
Where did she go yesterday?
Because you know I'm always here pretty much every single day.
But I am on a boat, I am traveling with family.
And I had some Wi Fi connectivity issues.
That happens now and then, even though I'm on Elon Starlink.
I'm going to have to send him a note.
So we had some small issues, but I'm back.
I'm back and thrilled to be here as we get ready to close out.
As we close out the year, wow, I mean, 2025, my goodness.
Let me share with you what Representative Randy Find is saying out of Florida.
Let's go to this because he's not taking any prisoners.
Ilhan Omar, if he gets his way, she's going down.
She's being kicked out of Congress.
He said he is going to force the vote.
Go, Randy.
Expelled from the United States.
And that's something that I'm working on.
But what prompted me to take this position is she decided to send around fundraising emails saying I should be expelled from Congress.
Well, if that's her view, she should go for it.
And so what I've said is if I'm going to try to expel her, it won't be in a fundraising email.
She'll deal with it on the floor of the U.S. House of Representatives.
Okay.
So I should add to that that he is, in fact, planning to do that.
It looks like the feed got a little bit.
Sticky for some.
I'm seeing that.
Apologies for that.
Not sure why it got frozen.
Can you hear me all right?
They must not want me going after Ilhan this hard.
Hopefully, we start coming back, you guys, because that's a pain.
I know.
You're back and it's gone again.
Defender of the Truth.
I'm so sorry.
I guess I actually should have, you know what?
I should have probably taped this and we should have done it that way.
Hopefully, this live feed will, in fact, manage to do okay.
Like I said, blame Elon.
Okay.
Elon.
We're counting on you here with Starlink, and it's not good.
It's not good when it's not happening for us.
So that's kind of a bummer.
But Ilhan Omar, it's really a bummer for you because I think that the reality is this you are going to be out if, in fact, these allegations are proven to be true.
Now, I'm sure she's smart enough.
I'm sure she's smart enough to have managed.
Let's see.
Are we coming back?
Are we coming back?
I'm sure she's smart enough to have managed to have, oh, shall we say, kept her fingerprints off this.
But you got a pretty dedicated FBI there with one.
Kash Patel in the seat.
And, you know, although I've been incredibly frustrated with Pam Bondi and continue to remain rather frustrated with her, I think that we have to hope that they're going to go and cross the I's and dot the T's and get what they can done.
So it looks like, guys, we are still actually frozen.
Unfortunately, perhaps the better answer today is for us not to do this live, but to actually try this in taped format.
And I'll be with you a little bit later on.
Here in the day, because is a.
And tell me if it, tell me if I'm okay.
Defender of the Truth says we're back.
So maybe we're back.
Maybe we just went through a rough patch here in the Caribbean.
What do you think?
Are we just, just let me know if you can.
I am actually looking at this in real time.
I always do, but right now I'm really relying on you to see if we do have the feed or not.
And if we don't, then we are going to, ah, it looks like we're back.
Okay.
So Congress is going to vote.
On whether or not Ilan Omar gets to stay in.
And what they're going to need in this case is more proof, of course, that she somehow absolutely knew what was going down when she introduced Feeding the Nation, Feeding Our Future, when she introduced that legislation on the day that she and Timmy got married.
How much did she know was actually going to wind up going to fraudsters?
Because that's what we had a situation where all of this went to the people that should last be getting this money.
And people are angry about it, understandably so.
It's now gotten to the level where people are now calling for criminal charges against one Ilhan Omar.
Criminal charges.
That's where we're at.
Tom Emmer, he is the representative from Minnesota, the Republican representative.
And he's like, you know what?
This is unacceptable every other day.
I keep hearing more and more and more about fraud, And now he's suggesting that there should be criminal charges brought against Ilhan Omar.
Now, I would say you're going to have to prove a lot out, right?
Now, is she smart?
She's going to cover her.
Bases and she's not going to have her fingerprints on this, but it doesn't look good.
It doesn't look good when you're the one who introduces the bill, and then the guy who's like hosting your victory dinner for your big victory lap after you win is the guy who's donating to your campaign and simultaneously making millions of dollars off of all this.
When you've got your ex campaign staffer who's involved in it and actually convicted, that really doesn't look good.
And I think that this is going to come back to haunt her.
Education Secretary Linda McMahon, meanwhile, she's livid because there's all these daycares that weren't actually teaching kids or even housing kids or doing anything with kids, they were just Centers of more fraud.
So Linda McMahon is out there absolutely furious, calling Ilhan Omar as disingenuous, she said, as they come.
Here's the quote that she spoke to the reporter from the New York Post on Saturday about.
She said, Ilhan Omar is as disingenuous as they come.
She promises socialist policies while cashing in a taxpayer funded paycheck and sitting on tens of millions of dollars.
At least now we have an explanation for why she's so out of touch with the priorities of hardworking, everyday Minnesotans.
Yeah, you know, she's not out of touch with their priorities.
She's very much in touch with her priorities because it's Ilhan Omar and little Timmy, the new hubby.
They're all that matters, okay?
That's what matters to Ilhan.
Ilhan.
Oh, and I guess keeping some of the donors that keep her campaign coffers and thus her husband's salary, don't forget, steady, like they matter too.
Campaign Donors And Hidden Priorities00:02:28
But they're the guys that are the fraudsters.
I mean, it's just, it's, I'm just saying this, like where there's smoke, there's usually fire.
Okay.
So you can't leave this one alone.
You're going to have to keep digging and digging and digging.
And listen, what did Elon do?
He found all kinds of fraud.
And everybody was like, oh, you know, where'd he go?
He's gone away.
He could only actually, by law, because of the kinds of Clearances he had only stay a certain amount of time.
And so, yeah, sure, now he's gone, he's away, but this work is being carried on in a different fashion, and they're finding all kinds of things.
Here's the travesty, though.
Think about this.
They started finding this back in 2012, 2014, and there were a lot of alarm bells that went off, and there were a lot of whistleblowers that were like, hey, hey, hey, this does not seem right.
We think that we've got all this fraud, and nobody did anything about it.
So, this has now reached a level where everybody's really concerned.
Here's a Fox summary that kind of puts it in perspective.
Six new indictments and one guilty plea were announced yesterday as federal agents executed a search warrant on Ultimate Home Health Services, a Somali-owned home care agency.
The new indictment zeroes in on the autism program called Early Intensive Developmental and Behavioral Intervention, or EIDBI, and zeroed in on housing stabilization programs.
In the case of the housing stabilization programs, the Assistant U.S. Attorney Joe Thompson says defendants claim to provide housing assistance to people with mental illness or drug and alcohol problems, and they say the defendants submitted claims, Provided no service.
Thompson used the term fraud tourism, claiming two men from Philadelphia learned there was easy money in Minnesota, so they flew into the state, set up shop, and started billing the government.
As far as defrauding the autism programs, Thompson introduced one new case of a defendant recruiting parents, getting bogus documents for a diagnosis of autism for the child.
The parents would then get a kickback from the money intended to treat the autistic child.
What we're seeing is programs that are just entirely fraudulent.
These aren't companies that are providing some services but overbilling.
Medicare or Medicaid.
These are companies that are providing essentially no services.
They're essentially shell companies created to defraud the program, created to submit on a wholesale level.
Now, the housing stabilization program, for one, was created with a prediction it would cost $2.6 million annually.
It ballooned to $21 million in 2021 and exploded to $104 million in 2024.
All but a handful of the defendants thus far are part of the Minnesota Somali community.
Fraudulent Programs And CNN Evidence00:05:53
Gosh, they're all part of the club.
They're all one in the same, and they are all part of the people.
That Donald Trump was so upset about that other day, where they called him all kinds of things for saying what he did.
By the way, hey, Catcher, AD, thank you so much.
I always think of you guys, even on my vacation.
We had a great day at the beach, by the way.
I actually swim in the Caribbean Sea.
I never do that.
I never do that.
It was beautiful.
It was beautiful.
So I had a great day swimming with the kids and everything.
But I wanted to be here for you because this story has been going and going and going.
I mean, wow, like breaking all over Christmas, more and more coming to us every day.
And it's in part because, you know, the FBI is now taking this extremely seriously.
You've got also the representative from Florida saying, I want this lady out and I'm going to launch a vote.
And all of these allegations just keep piling up and up.
I mean, here's the staffer, okay?
This is the guy who was her ex-staffer on her campaign.
I guess he worked for her and Timmy, and he pled guilty.
He pled guilty, okay?
So he was convicted and he pled guilty.
And yet you get these idiots over there on CNN and the mainstream media that do not seem to understand or want to recognize reality.
I mean, talking about talking your book.
Listen to this one, okay?
This is the other night on CNN.
And by the way, the story's been, remember, out there since 2012, 2014.
It came up again in 2018.
Like, it's been bubbling, bubbling, bubbling, bubbling.
We just found out now, though.
Like, you know, you know what's really hit the fan.
And it's bad.
It's bad for Ilhan.
It's bad for Timmy Waltz.
It's bad for Timmy, the husband of Ilhan Omar.
And it's bad for one, Keith Ellison.
All of them, okay?
All of them are possibly going down with the The ship, and yet you got CNN saying stuff like this.
Is the American project supposed to be about treating people as individuals, not as representatives of where they came from, about who their parents were, whatever, but about who they are and what they can individually contribute to this country?
However, what Trump is doing there is basically saying you are worthless if you come from a part of the world that he doesn't think has value.
Is that really what we're doing in the United States?
That's not true in America.
No, we in America, we do treat people as individuals and appreciate them as individuals.
It's one of the greatest things about this country.
On the other hand, and I am no fan of Ilan Omar, and she is in a lot of deep doo doo now because she is very tangled in this billion dollar Somali Medicaid fraud scandal in Minneapolis, and she may be touched by this.
And of course.
I haven't seen any evidence of her being condemned to it, except for her being.
So let me tell you why the check and balance.
Let me tell you why.
Happy, there is evidence.
Evidence this kind of rhetoric doesn't matter because the economy okay, Kevin.
I love you, but but we needed Betsy to take her down there, okay?
So, since Betsy didn't get a chance to do that, I'm just going to remind you that, yeah, there's all kinds of evidence.
I mean, and this was already out there, but I guess if you're a CNN host, you don't want to like acknowledge these little things like evidence.
The fact that the campaign staffer was one of the ones that pled guilty, convicted, pled guilty, okay, CNN.
So, know your facts, know the story before you get out and spout all this nonsense.
I'm so sick of all of them.
I mean, really, it's like they're on the Democrat Party payroll or something.
They don't ever want to admit the truth.
Okay, oh, we're picking on her because she's Somalian?
No, We're picking on her because you see her ex staffer is involved.
The people who were donating to her campaign are involved.
The guy who hosted her victory party at the whatever safari restaurant, he's one of the ones that's also been convicted.
So, you know, one plus one.
Is last time I checked too.
Okay, CNN, it's not like 252, but you know, they don't want to admit any kind of reality clearly.
Um, we do acknowledge reality here, and this is the reality of what we're looking at.
And you know what?
It's getting worse.
It's getting worse for Ilhan Omar and her hubby Timmy, not Waltz, the other one, because he's got this 30 million dollar hoity toity firm that he calls a private equity firm.
And I don't know because this is not looking like private equity to me.
This looks like political consulting, and he gets paid.
By Democrat campaigns to help consult and make suggestions, et cetera.
In fact, he gets probably most of his money from Ilhan Omar's campaign.
What do you know?
He married the boss and she pays her husband handsomely.
So now, as a result, she's gone from like $200,000 in net worth to, oh, apparently up to $30 million with this private equity firm.
It's not a private equity firm.
I mean, you're welcome to take a look at it.
This thing, if you read it online, it really does sound like a political consulting op.
And that would just suggest to me a very, very rich valuation for one political consulting op.
Here we go.
Oh, I love this.
Let's see if we can get this.
I told you it was going to be topsy turvy today.
Okay.
Ilhan Omar went from being nearly broke to being worth up to $30 million in just a year.
That's a pretty massive increase.
At the same time, you have this $9 billion fraud scheme involving the entire Somali community in her district unfolding right under her nose.
I mean, think about that.
You're talking about $90, $90 now.
Actual prosecutions and apparently people who have been charged there.
This is enormous and this is extraordinary.
And yes, like I said, you've got Tim Myet, My Net, My Net, My Net, like My Net Worth.
Ilhan can say, My Net Worth went up ever since I married Timmy and I decided to pay him millions of dollars for running my campaign.