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‘Squad’ Dem dismisses fraud probe speculation after $29M net-worth drop
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Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., is continuing to deny looming questions over an Ethics Committee investigation into her financial filings, showing a significant drop in her net worth.
Scrutiny of Omar’s finances intensified after financial disclosure filings appeared to show her estimated net worth falling from a range of roughly $6 million to $30 million in one filing period to between about $18,000 and $95,000 in a later disclosure.
House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer, R-Ky., has publicly voiced his interest in the House Ethics Committee opening an investigation into both Omar’s personal finances and her connection to the ‘Feeding Our Future’ fraud scheme, a scandal that federal prosecutors say cost taxpayers roughly $250 million.
JAMES COMER RAISES FELONY QUESTIONS OVER ILHAN OMAR’S FINANCES AFTER DISCLOSURE DISCREPANCY
House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer, R-Ky., has asked Vice President JD Vance to scrutinize fraud prevention deficiencies in Minnesota’s social services programs after the release Monday of his committee’s 205-page final staff report. (Andrew Harnik/Getty Images)
Omar dismissed suggestions that she is facing an Ethics Committee investigation.
«No,» Omar told Fox News Digital, laughing, when asked if she is under an Ethics Committee investigation. «No. We go over this all the time.»
She was pressed about continued reporting surrounding the discrepancy — the possibility of the roughly $29 million drop in her financial disclosure.
«There’s also the possibility that it might rain on this sunny day,» Omar replied.
Along with Comer’s efforts to launch an investigation into Omar, Vice President JD Vance said just last month that the U.S. Department of Justice will be opening a probe into the Minnesota Democrat’s alleged fraud as part of the administration’s new anti-fraud taskforce.
OMAR CAMP BREAKS SILENCE ON FRAUD PROBE, BLAMES WALZ, TRUMP AS NEW CLAIMS CLASH WITH EARLIER STATEMENTS
Rep. Ilhan Omar dismissed Vice President JD Vance’s claims that the Justice Department is investigating her for alleged immigration and fraud violations, referring to House Republicans attention to the matter as politically motivated. (Daniel Heuer/Bloomberg via Getty Images; Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)
Omar has declined ever being aware of the scheme happening behind doors with the organization, which claimed to be helping supply children in need of meals during the COVID-19 pandemic.
The Justice Department described the scheme as the «single largest COVID-19 fraud scheme in the country,» The Associated Press reported. The orchestrator of the non-profit, Aimee Bock, was sentenced to 42 years in prison for her involvement in spearheading the fraud scheme.
Republicans have pointed to Omar’s MEALS Act, part of a federal pandemic relief measure which she sponsored, as a factor they say contributed to conditions that allowed the fraud to occur. They argue her bill was a mass contributor to the fraud occurring as it broadened USDA waiver authority at meal sites. It has also been claimed that this same act helped to dismantle anti-fraud safeguards that verified the people actually being serviced in federal nutrition programs.
ILHAN OMAR’S OFFICE SAYS SHE’S ‘NOT A MILLIONAIRE’ AFTER $30M FILING REVISED DOWN TO UNDER $100K: REPORT
Rep. Ilhan Omar speaks at Karmel Mall in Minneapolis, Minn., on Jan. 28, 2026. (Eric Thayer / Los Angeles Times via Getty Images)
In a previous statement to Fox News Digital from Omar, she claimed that President Donald Trump’s USDA Secretary, Brooke Rollins, imposed the regulations for the framework of the program.
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While Omar continues to reject suggestions time-after-time that she is facing an Ethics Committee investigation, Republicans have shown little sign of backing away from their demands for a proper investigation into Omar’s finances and fraud allegations.
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U.K. surveillance laws drew scrutiny from House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan, R-Ohio June 5 amid warnings they could expose communications of officials and American citizens, according to reports.
The concern centered on the U.K.’s use of secret Technical Capability Notices under the Investigatory Powers Act, which critics say could make U.S. companies weaken encryption or create «backdoors» weaken encryption or create «backdoors» while preventing firms from disclosing requests without U.K. government approval.
Critics have argued this could undermine privacy, create vulnerabilities and limit congressional oversight with one former intelligence official warning of a «standing invitation to Beijing.»
«We have already seen how this ends,» former Department of Defense official Andrew Badger told Fox News Digital.
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Rep. Jim Jordan said Republicans are «the party of common sense,» and Democrats are «the party that takes these crazy positions.» (Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images)
«There are legitimate privacy concerns here, and those have been well aired. The less examined issue is national security,» Badger said.
«A backdoor compelled by one ally becomes a standing invitation to Beijing, Moscow and Tehran so once one government can quietly compel access, others will demand the same, and a one-off concession hardens into a permanent vulnerability,» he warned.
According to the Telegraph, a June 5 letter sent by Jordan to U.K. Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood, showed the Trump ally had called for a review.
The report said Mahmood’s decision had been to deny a U.S. company permission to speak with Congress about an alleged encryption backdoor notice.
Jordan was also said to have warned that a lack of bilateral coordination raised concerns about the «trust and effective partnership between our two countries.»
«Five Eyes works because every partner trusts the others not to weaken the systems they all depend on,» Badger, co-author of «The Great Heist: China’s Epic Campaign to Steal America’s Secrets,» said.
«If Washington also concludes that U.K. surveillance powers could inadvertently expose Americans and American officials to espionage, it puts real strain on the relationship and makes future cooperation on intelligence and cyber harder to sustain.»
US SPIES URGED TO REFOCUS EFFORTS ON AMERICA’S BACKYARD, NEW HOUSE INTEL CHAIR SAYS
The Thames House headquarters of MI5 in London on Nov. 18, 2025. Britain’s domestic security service has warned of growing state-backed threats, including more than 20 Iran-backed plots uncovered in the UK, as lawmakers consider new legislation targeting foreign state-linked groups. (Betty Laura Zapata/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
On the encryption issue, Badger noted that mainstream encrypted platforms now function as «de facto infrastructure for sensitive communication well beyond the consumer market.»
«Any access point built into them becomes a permanent target. It is not a private key the requesting government gets to keep to itself,» he said.
U.S. and British cyber officials have also repeatedly warned that an axis of hostile states — including Russia, China and Iran — poses threats to Western security and infrastructure.
As previously reported by Fox News Digital, cyberespionage by groups such as Salt Typhoon, linked to China, has carried out operations targeting sensitive communications.
«China is actively running one of the largest state-backed cyberespionage operations ever uncovered. The Salt Typhoon campaign has targeted hundreds of organizations across roughly 80 countries and, through those intrusions, gained access to sensitive communications and networks used by senior Western officials,» Badger warned.
«Chinese state hackers didn’t defeat encryption. They walked straight through the lawful-intercept systems telecom providers had built, reaching the communications of senior officials and even information about surveillance targets.»
CHINESE BIOWEAPON SMUGGLING CASE SHOWS US ‘TRAINS OUR ENEMIES,’ ‘LEARNED NOTHING’ FROM COVID: SECURITY EXPERT
The flag of China is flown behind a pair of surveillance cameras outside the Central Government Offices. (Roy Liu/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
Reports also surfaced that U.K. Foreign Secretary Yvette Cooper used a burner phone during a recent trip to Beijing and raising further concerns about state-sponsored espionage.
Badger noted that the episode reflects a broader pattern of Chinese targeting of British democratic institutions, including the «hacking of senior Downing Street officials’ phones and an Electoral Commission breach that exposed the data of roughly 40 million voters,» he said.
«The telling thing is that no one issues burner phones for a trip to Sweden or Germany,» he said.
«The precaution is itself an admission of the threat environment. The working assumption — correctly — is that anything digital taken into China should be treated as potentially compromised.»
The systemic vulnerability also highlights a fundamental contradiction in Western diplomatic strategy, according to Badger.
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«This case perfectly underscores the contradiction at the heart of the U.K. Labour government’s China policy: chasing positive economic relations and expanded trade with Beijing on one hand, while being forced to take elaborate precautions against a state whose core interests remain fundamentally at odds with its own on the other,» Badger said.
«You can’t simultaneously treat China as a trusted economic partner and a hostile intelligence threat. It’s a fundamental contradiction. The need to use burner phones symbolically underscore this.»
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Israel descartó el fin de la guerra contra Irán y advirtió sobre una respuesta “severa” ante nuevos ataques
El ministro de Defensa israelí, Israel Katz, afirmó este miércoles que la confrontación militar con Irán está lejos de haber concluido y sostuvo que las fuerzas de su país mantienen plena capacidad para lanzar nuevas operaciones contra objetivos iraníes en caso de que se registren ataques contra el Estado hebreo.
Durante una ceremonia oficial de reconocimiento organizada por el Ministerio de Defensa, Katz se refirió a la reciente escalada regional y envió un mensaje de advertencia a Teherán.
“No debemos pensar que el trabajo está terminado. La campaña contra Irán está lejos de haber terminado”, declaró el funcionario ante los asistentes.
Sus palabras llegan después de varios días de tensión en Medio Oriente marcados por intercambios de ataques, amenazas cruzadas y movimientos militares en distintos frentes de la región. Aunque en las últimas horas no se registraron enfrentamientos de gran magnitud entre ambos países, las autoridades israelíes insisten en que la situación sigue siendo inestable.
Katz señaló que Israel responderá con dureza ante cualquier nueva acción militar iraní.
“Si Irán ataca a Israel, sufrirá un golpe severo, como el que le infligimos hace unos días”, afirmó. También aseguró que las Fuerzas de Defensa de Israel “están preparadas para atacar con gran fuerza en Irán” si las circunstancias lo requieren.
Las declaraciones reflejan la postura del gobierno israelí de mantener la presión sobre la República Islámica tras la reciente crisis entre ambos países. Si bien existieron versiones sobre la posible cancelación de una operación militar de gran escala contra territorio iraní, Katz dejó en claro que las capacidades ofensivas israelíes continúan disponibles y que la conducción política no considera cerrado el episodio.
El ministro también dedicó parte de su discurso a la situación en el Líbano, donde Israel mantiene operaciones contra Hezbollah. Según explicó, las fuerzas israelíes llevaron a cabo acciones contra integrantes de la organización terrorista en la ciudad costera de Tiro, en el sur libanés.
Katz aseguró que las operaciones permitieron actuar contra miembros de Hezbollah que operaban en un barrio de mayoría cristiana. De acuerdo con su versión, los residentes de esa zona comenzaron a regresar a sus viviendas después de que las fuerzas israelíes atacaran objetivos vinculados al grupo armado.
El funcionario aprovechó además para elogiar el desempeño de los militares israelíes en distintos escenarios de combate. Sostuvo que las tropas han infligido “golpes duros” a Hezbollah durante los últimos enfrentamientos y destacó la actuación de las unidades desplegadas tanto en territorio israelí como fuera de sus fronteras.
Las declaraciones del ministro se producen en un contexto de alta sensibilidad regional. El pasado fin de semana, Irán lanzó varias andanadas de misiles contra Israel como respuesta a bombardeos israelíes en Beirut. Teherán justificó esas acciones argumentando que los ataques contra la capital libanesa afectaban uno de los principales límites que había fijado para evitar una expansión del conflicto.
En respuesta, Israel llevó a cabo ataques contra objetivos iraníes y rechazó públicamente cualquier intento de vincular los acontecimientos del frente libanés con las decisiones militares adoptadas por Jerusalén. Katz ya había expresado esa posición el lunes, cuando aseguró que su país continuaría actuando en el Líbano pese a las advertencias formuladas por la República Islámica.
Desde entonces, ambos gobiernos han mantenido un intercambio de amenazas mientras observan de cerca la evolución de los acontecimientos en el norte de Israel y el sur del Líbano. Aunque Irán anunció la suspensión de sus ataques, las autoridades israelíes no han declarado el final de sus operaciones ni consideran cerrada la confrontación. Las palabras de Katz refuerzan esa postura y muestran que, para el gobierno israelí, la posibilidad de nuevas acciones militares contra Irán sigue sobre la mesa.
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