Feds try to claw back luxury goods from Omar-linked Minneapolis fraudster
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Salim Said, a convicted fraudster linked to Democratic “Squad” Representative Ilhan Omar, led a lavish lifestyle while defrauding a federal program designed to feed underprivileged children.

His opulent 6,000-square-foot home in Minneapolis, featuring five bedrooms and five bathrooms, was filled with high-end fashion items, including designer handbags, Italian shoes, and luxury watches worth up to $60,000.

Federal authorities are now seeking to reclaim these extravagant possessions.

Prosecutors have requested judicial approval to confiscate these items from Said, who is a convicted participant in the Feeding Our Future scandal. The aim is to help offset the significant $7.8 million judgment proposed against him.

The detailed list of luxury goods was revealed in a series of legal documents submitted to the court last week.

Among the items are a 2021 Mercedes GLA-Class car, a 2021 Chevrolet Silverado SUV, a Rolex Submariner watch valued at $14,000, and a Brunello Cucinelli shearling-lined coat that can cost up to $10,000, according to listings reviewed by The Post.

He also had an enviable assortment of designer bags, including a Prada Monochrome Tote that fetches $800, a Burberry trench coat that costs $2,800, and a fine footwear fetish that ran to the many thousands of dollars.

The shoe horde includes such items as Christian Laboutin boots that go for $1,600 and grey Balenciaga Speed Graffiti sneakers that cost $900.

Prosecutors also want to drain five of Said’s bank accounts worth $514,000 and seize his $1.3 million home in Minnesota along with a $3 million commercial property in Columbus, Ohio, along with the haul of handbags, electronics, and fragrances.

All are ill-gotten gains, prosecutors argued at trial before Said’s conviction in March, when they said he had a $9,000-per-month spending habit at Nordstrom’s.

Said, 37, got $16 million worth of federal funds for his restaurant to hand out meals for children during the COVID-19 pandemic. He was found guilty in March of stealing more than $12 million for serving 3.9 million “phantom” meals, and convicted on 21 crimes that include wire fraud and bribery.

His trial was marked by a brazen bribery attempt that gained international attention — in which a Hallmark gift bag stuffed with $120,000 cash was delivered to a juror’s home the night before the panel was scheduled to be in court to hear closing arguments.

Omar is not accused of wrongdoing in the burgeoning Minnesota health care fraud totaling up to $9 billion. She does, however, have numerous ties to Said.

He co-owned the now-defunct Safari Restaurant, which played host to Omar’s 2018 congressional victory party. Two of Safari’s co-owners donated $4,700 to Omar’s campaign, according to FEC records.

As the Feeding our Future scam was underway in 2020, Omar even appeared on video at Safari Restaurant to praise the program, bragging about donation numbers that turned out to be fraudulent.

“Every day, Safari provides 2,300 meals to children and their families,” she boasted in Somali in the video, while being filmed handling trays of food in a parking lot with her pandemic-era facemask pulled down below her nose.

It was Somalia-born Omar who introduced the legislation — the MEALS Act — critics say paved the way for the scam, relaxing oversight of government-sponsored children’s meal programs during the pandemic.

Omar’s own finances came under scrutiny after she filed a congressional disclosure revealing a sudden jump in her own assets from next to nothing to up to $30 million.

Omar did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

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