Bill Glahn reports that Guhaad Hashi Said became the fifty-second defendant convicted in the massive Feeding Our Future fraud case yesterday. He pleaded guilty to two felony counts among the charges against him. He was originally charged with conspiracy to commit wire fraud, wire fraud, and conspiracy to commit money laundering. Hashi ran a site under the name Advance Youth Athletic Development that falsely claimed to serve up to 5,000 meals a day.
In his New York Times story on the Feeding Our Future indictments David Fahrenthold drily observed: “The site he listed was an unlikely place for anyone to feed children en masse: The address was a second-story apartment.” Fahrenthold also got an interview with Hashi in which he more or less denied all.
It’s a shame Farenthold didn’t know who he is. He opens a window onto the wild world of Rep. Ilhan Omar. We have been writing about the Hashi connection to Omar for nearly as long as we have been writing about Omar.
PJ Media appended an easily overlooked footnote to David Steinberg’s 2019 PJ Media column “Ilhan Omar’s Husband No Longer Works for Minneapolis Councilwoman. Sources Say Omar Asked for Him to Be Fired.” Among other things, David’s column showed how much news related to the Omar saga remains unreported in the mainstream media. It is out there for the asking with just a little work if you want to find it.
Here is the footnote, explaining David’s use of anonymous sources:
Anonymous sources used in this article have provided information to PJM over the past two years that all proved to be verifiable through publicly available legal documents, databases, professional background checks, and time-stamped social media posts. Sources have expressed fear of threats by Omar and her supporters — and we have been able to verify the threats. See Preya Samsundar and David Steinberg’s coverage of Guhaad Hashi, who was convicted of a stabbing shortly before becoming a key member of Omar’s campaign — during which he posted several threats, including a video, towards local Somalis who spoke up about Omar.
My own sources were well aware of Mr. Hashi. The footnote applied to my sources as well. One of them provided me the mug shot of Hashi below (under the name Guhaad H Said).
Preya Samsundar first reported on Hashi in the 2016 Alpha News article “A community forced into silence.” David Steinberg noted Hashi’s work for Omar in a tweet I posted here. I documented some of Hashi’s terroristic threats here (January 27, 2020), here (same), and here (January 28, 2020). He is a repugnant.
I would like to add a footnote to David’s footnote. I was told in 2019 that Hashi entered the United States with Omar as Guhaad Omar and reclaimed his name when he became a citizen. According to my source, Omar was his fake sister and he was her fake brother, although they may have a familial relationship of a more distant kind.
Incidentally, that would still leave five Omar siblings unaccounted for among the seven whom the Star Tribune and others have attributed to Omar’s family. In a classic case of the blind leading the blind, the New York Times followed the Star Tribune on this point — while fact-checking Trump!
Can either the Star Tribune or the Times name one Omar sibling with the name Omar? As of this date, neither the Star Tribune nor the Times has ever done so.
Yet we know that Sahra Noor is Omar’s sister. We know that Leila Elmi (or Leila Nur Said Elmi) is Omar’s sister. What is going on here? Hint: We know that the man variously identified as Nur Omar Mohamed or Nur Said Elmi Mohamed or Nur Said Elmi was Omar’s father (see Benjamin Weingarten’s American Ingrate at pages 156-157) and we are quite certain that Ahmed Nur Said Elmi (Omar’s husband number 2) is Omar’s brother, although Omar denies her sibling relationship with the latter.
PLEASE NOTE: Dominic Green is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society. When he examined the curious case of Ilhan Omar for the Spectator in 2019 under the pseudonym Cockburn, he had no trouble sorting out the evidence in this hilariously illustrated column (as republished by the Daily Mail).
COMING SOON: I will have a footnote to this footnote on the Star Tribune’s coverage of Omar’s immigration to the United States along with her siblings.
