Business records show Rep. Ilhan Omar's sister incorporated her consulting company at a Minnesota home address connected to multiple figures convicted in the $250 million Feeding Our Future fraud, raising fresh questions about the congresswoman's proximity to the scandal.
Sahra Noor, identified as Omar's sister, used 17626 Hyacinth Way in Lakeville, Minnesota, as the registered address for Grit Partners Consulting, The Dallas Express reported, citing a Daily Wire investigation published Friday. That same suburban address appears in Minnesota Secretary of State filings as the registered office of Diversity Childcare Center LLC, managed by a woman named Ismahan Afraah, also known as Ister Ahmed Afraa, who has direct business ties to at least two people convicted in the massive federal nutrition-fraud case.
Neither Noor nor Afraah has been charged. But the overlapping address adds another thread linking Omar's family to a fraud scheme that the Department of Justice says siphoned more than $240 million in federal child nutrition funds, money meant to feed kids during the pandemic.
The property at 17626 Hyacinth Way belongs to Mashah Ahmed Ali, identified as Afraah's husband. When the Daily Wire contacted Ali about the companies registered at his home, he offered a blunt response.
"There must be some sort of scam going on, I have no idea."
State business records show Afraah formed Sunrise Business Center Inc. with Hanna Marekegn, who admitted in a federal plea agreement to conspiring to defraud a child nutrition program. Marekegn and her company obtained roughly $7.1 million through the scheme. Afraah also served as chief executive of a company that operated from the home of Sahra Mohamed Nur, owner of S & S Catering, who pleaded guilty to wire fraud and money laundering. A federal judge sentenced Nur on May 22, 2025, to 51 months in prison and ordered her to pay approximately $5 million in restitution.
Minnesota health records listed Aimee Bock, the founder of Feeding Our Future and the organizer at the center of the entire fraud, as a contact for both Diversity Childcare Center and another entity called Sunshine Care Center tied to Afraah. Bock received the heaviest sentence of any defendant: 500 months, more than 41 years, handed down on May 22, 2026.
Noor's consulting firm, Grit Partners, presents a polished public profile. Her website describes securing more than $20 million in funding for health initiatives and consulting on projects backed by the CDC, USAID, the vaccine alliance Gavi, and the World Bank. The Daily Wire noted that some social media posts mischaracterized this as Grit Partners receiving $20 million directly from USAID, a claim the firm's own website does not support. What the records do show is that Noor chose to incorporate her company at the same Lakeville address where fraud-connected businesses were already registered.
Noor did not respond to the Daily Wire's requests for comment. Afraah also did not respond.
The address connection lands at a moment when scrutiny of Omar's ties to the Feeding Our Future network has intensified. The convicted scheme organizer herself, Aimee Bock, has made direct claims about Omar's awareness. In a jailhouse interview with the New York Post, Bock said she struggled to believe Omar was ignorant of the fraud.
"I struggle to believe that she wouldn't have known."
Bock cited the fact that many of the sites participating in the nutrition program worked directly with Omar, noting that "a lot of the operators were from the same Somali community." Omar's name appeared at least six times in emails and text messages entered as court exhibits during Bock's 2025 federal trial.
Omar introduced the MEALS Act in March 2020, legislation that loosened oversight of the federal nutrition program by allowing restaurants to participate without site inspections, a policy change that, according to prosecutors' case, created the conditions fraudsters exploited.
Omar has denied any involvement. In a May 20 statement to Fox News, she said flatly:
"Any claim that I had knowledge of this scheme is flat-out false."
That denial has not satisfied Minnesota lawmakers. A state House committee formally sought records and testimony from Omar regarding her contacts with people connected to Feeding Our Future. On May 5, a motion to issue a subpoena compelling her cooperation failed by a single vote, five Republicans supported it, three Democrats opposed.
The Feeding Our Future case stands as one of the largest pandemic-era fraud schemes ever prosecuted. The DOJ has described the nonprofit as having fraudulently obtained and distributed more than $240 million in federal child nutrition funds. Dozens of defendants have been charged, and sentences have ranged from Nur's 51 months to Bock's 500-month term.
Yet the web of business registrations, shared addresses, and overlapping personnel documented in state filings suggests the full picture may extend beyond the individuals already convicted. Afraah managed a childcare center at the same address where Omar's sister registered a consulting firm. Afraah co-founded a company with a woman who admitted to a $7.1 million fraud conspiracy. Afraah ran a company from the home of another convicted fraudster. And Feeding Our Future's founder was listed as a contact for Afraah's entities.
None of that proves Noor knew about or participated in fraud. But it raises an obvious question the records alone cannot answer: why did Omar's sister choose that particular address for her business?
The trail of court exhibits, plea agreements, and state filings keeps circling back toward Omar's orbit. Meanwhile, a related arrest overseas has renewed Republican pressure for the congresswoman to turn over communications with convicted participants.
Omar says she knew nothing. The records keep piling up around her. At some point, a flat denial stops being an answer and starts being an invitation for harder questions.
