Lawyer for Rep. Omar’s former security guard says client was indicted, pushed to be informant on Omar: NYT

After federal officials dropped charges against a former security guard for Rep. Ilhan Omar earlier this year, his lawyer is now telling The New York Times that the indictment was filed in an effort to obtain incriminating information about the congresswoman.

The federal government indicted Abdullahi Mohamed in April of this year, alleging Mohamed told U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services he had never worked on behalf of the Somali government while being interviewed for his permanent residence application.

The case against Mohamed was later dropped.

According to The New York Times, Mohamed’s lawyer, Bruce Rivers, said that prosecutors spent months trying to turn the bodyguard into an informant to bolster their case against Omar. 

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