While the department did not go into much detail, the announcement comes amid uproar over a Project Veritas video that accused Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) of being linked to a vote-harvesting scheme, and after President Donald Trump called for an investigation into allegations against the congresswoman.
What are the details?
On Sunday, Project Veritas released a video showing a man named Liban Mohamed boasting on social media July 7 about having his car "full" of 300 absentee ballots he had "hustled" for then-Minneapolis City Council candidate Jamal Osman, who won his seat in August, according to the Pioneer Press.
Omar Jamal, who is purportedly with a Somali Watchdog Group and currently works with the Ramsey County Sheriff's Office, claims in the Project Veritas video that he believes Mohamed worked not only for Osman, but "more with Ilhan Omar."
