Washington — Democratic Rep. Ilhan Omar said Sunday that any link between allegations of fraud by members of the Somali community and terrorism would be a "failure of the FBI" amid calls to investigate a series of multimillion-dollar alleged pandemic fraud schemes in Minnesota.

During the Biden administration in 2022, federal prosecutors in Minnesota filed charges in what they described as the "largest pandemic fraud in the United States," which revolved around a welfare program that partnered with the Minnesota Department of Education and the U.S. Department of Agriculture to distribute meals to children.

The Treasury Department said last week that it will investigate whether tax dollars from Minnesota's public assistance programs made their way to the al Qaeda affiliate al Sha

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