Virtual File - Item

Text: April 22, 2026

Representative Ilhan Omar
Attention: Data Request

via electronic delivery

Dear Representative Omar,

Minnesotans and the Members of the House Fraud Prevention & State Oversight Committee were disappointed that
you failed to appear before our committee to answer questions about the MEALS Act, HR 6187 from the 116th Congress,
passed as part of the Families First Coronavirus Response Act in March of 2020.

Despite your failure to appear, the Committee's questions remain. Please accept this letter as a formal request for
access to inspect data that is held in your office. Please provide a written response to the following questions by
May 5, 2026.

1) How did you communicate the new opportunities created for broader participation in the Child and Adult Care
Food Program (CACFP) and the Summer Food Service Program (SFP) to the Minnesota Department of
Education and your constituents? Please provide any and all written and/or electronic communications,
including but not limited to, emails, online meetings, agendas, texts, and any logs of meetings or calls you had
with them.

2) You appeared in a Somali TV video in which you touted the MEALS Act and highlighted Safari Restaurant as a
place where meals were available. Please provide all communication, including but not limited to, emails,
texts, phone calls, and online meetings you had with the owners and staff of Safari Restaurant regarding how to
apply for the program, becoming a site under the sponsorship of Feeding our Future, and the planning and
production of the video.

3) You received donations from the following Feeding our Future Defendants. Please provide any and all written
and/or electronic communications, including but not limited to, emails, online meetings, agendas, texts, and
any logs of meetings or calls you had with them:
• Abdihakim Ali Ahmed
• Abdikadir Ainanshe Mohamud
• Ahmed Abdullahi Ghedi
• Buled Buraale
• Abdirahman Mohamud Ahmed
• Sade Osman Hashi
• Mahad Ibrahim
• Guhaad Hashi Said

4) Please also provide any and all written and/or electronic communications, including but not limited to any
emails, online meetings, agendas, texts, logs of meetings, or calls you had with the following Feeding our
Future defendants:
• Aimee Bock
• Abdikerm Eidleh
• Abdulkadir Salah
• Abdulijabar Hussein
• Hanna Marakgen
• Sharon Ross
• Sharmake Jama
• Ayan Jama
• Zamzam Jama
• Abdi Salah
• Abdimajid Nur
• Najmo Ahmed
• Sahra Nur
• Abdul Ali
• Bekam Merdasa
• Yussuf Ali
• Khadra Abdi
• Aisha Hussein
• Qamar Hassan
• Mohamed Hussein
• Ayan Abukar
• Lul Ali
• Liban Alishire
• Mohamed Noor
• Abdulkadir Awaale
• Sharmarke Issa

5) Your former staff member, Guhaad Hashi Said, pled guilty in the Feeding our Future fraud scandal. Please also
provide any and all written and/or electronic communications, including but not limited to any emails, online meetings,
agendas, texts, logs of meetings, or calls you had with him and as well as anyone listed in the previous questions.
Please also provide the same for any communication or meetings with anyone associated with Advance Youth Athletic
Development.

6) Who produced the video you made for Somali TV? Please also provide any and all written and/or electronic
communications, including but not limited to any emails, online meetings, agendas, texts, logs of meetings, or calls
you had with this company, and anyone associated with it.

7) Xogmaal Media produced a video in the spring of 2021 documenting a political rally to support Safari Restaurant and
the Feeding our Future sponsor program in their legal fight against the Minnesota Department of Education (MDE).
Please also provide any and all written and/or electronic communications, including but not limited to any emails,
online meetings, agendas, texts, logs of meetings, or calls you had with Mohamed Noor, and anyone associated with
Xogmaal Media.

8) Several of your staff members were named in court documents. Please also provide any and all of the emails and
text exchanges that pertain to you and your staff as listed in the attached Exhibit List from United States. v. Aimee Marie
Bock et al., 22-CR-223 (D.Minn.2025). Said reference numbers include items A-52 through A-59 as well as BB-30
through 35.

Thank you for your prompt attention to this matter.

Best Wishes,

State Representative Kristin Robbins
Chair, Fraud Prevention and State Agency Oversight Policy Committee
District 37A - Proudly representing Corcoran, Greenfield, Independence, Loretto, Maple Grove, Maple Plain & Medina