Ilhan Omar's turbulent week explained: The dueling probes that threw the Somali-born progressive into chaos
It was a week of legal turmoil for one of America's most recognizable members of Congress.
Early Monday morning, federal agents with Homeland Security Investigations (HSI), the chief investigative arm of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), executed a search warrant on Washington, D.C. home of Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn.
The raid was part of an ongoing criminal probe into Omar's immigration status, with sources telling Fox News Digital that authorities are scrutinizing whether she or her father committed fraud when filling out paperwork for her to become a U.S. citizen.
A day later, U.S. Attorney for the District of Washington, D.C., Jeannine Pirro, announced her office was investigating Omar's financial disclosures, which had previously been subject to public scrutiny and congressional oversight, but never by authorities.
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Fox News Digital breaks down what we know so far about each investigation:
In May 2025, Omar filed financial disclosure forms for the year 2024, a required for every member of Congress to complete every year. I showed that she had between $6 million and $30 million in assets connected to two businesses run by her husband, Tim Mynett. One was was a venture capital firm, and the other a California winery.
Her financial disclosures from the year prior, covering 2023, said those assets were only valued at between $15,000 and $51,000 total.
The now-defunct winery, eStCru LLC, saw its reported valuation jump from between $15,000 and $50,000 in 2023 to between $1 million and $5 million in 2024. Rose Lake Capital LLC showed an even sharper increase, rising from a reported value of between $1 and $1,000 in 2023 to between $5 million and $25 million the following year.
The massive reported spike in net worth over the one-year span raised eyebrows, leading a watchdog group called the National Legal and Policy Center to file a complaint with the Office of Congressional Conduct in February of this year.
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Less than a month after the complaint was filed, Omar amended her 2025 disclosure form. The new filing reduced the couple's combined reported assets to between $18,004 and $95,000, and said the businesses had zero value after accounting for liabilities.
Omar blamed an accounting error, and has since repeatedly insisted that she is not a millionaire.
In September, the Office of Congressional Conduct voted 5-1 to recommend that the House Ethics Committee dismiss misconduct allegations stemming from the financial disclosures.
But the hubbub caught the eye of Pirro, who confirmed on Fox News' "America Reports" Tuesday that her office is investigating the discrepancies.
Further details about the investigation have not yet been released.
Monday's judicially authorized raid of Omar's Washington, D.C. home sent shockwaves through the political world, with many critics calling it politically motivated because it occurred three weeks before November's general elections.
The Trump administration has denied those accusations.
HSI agents spent several hours at Omar's home, and the Wall Street Journal reported that the lawmaker's personal cell phone, computers and passport were seized during the search. She has not been seen publicly since before the raid.
Sources told Fox News Digital that investigators are scrutinizing whether Omar or her father fraudulently filled out immigration paperwork when Omar was become a U.S. citizen decades ago. The Journal also reported that the goal of the probe is to strip Omar of her citizenship.
A dozen people, including family members, were subpoenaed in relation to the investigation.
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"Well, I understand they’re looking at her very carefully," President Donald Trump said Monday of the raid. "I’ve always found her to be totally crooked, personally, but that has nothing to do with me."
"I think she’s a terrible person. Just a complainer. She comes from a country that is ... a non-country, and then she comes over here and she complains about our Constitution," he continued. "I think she’s a terrible person, but that’s really up to the DOJ. I have nothing to do with it."
On Tuesday in an exclusive interview with Fox News Digital after rallying for Republican U.S. Senate candidate Ken Paxton in Tyler, Texas, Vice President JD Vance echoed a similar sentiment.
"We don't want to be like the Biden administration. We never want to be like that — where they would allow the law to go after their political opponents," Vance said. "We really want to let the law, the facts drive this. And if justice requires something else be done, then, of course, we'll take a step when we have to."
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Vance made it clear taking that unprecedented step of denaturalizing a sitting member of Congress is possible, but only if the law requires it based on the facts of the case.
"And to the question of it being unprecedented, I mean, what I'd say is that Ilhan Omar herself is a very unprecedented person," Vance said.
"We have very rarely had a person in Congress who seems to have such disdain and such rage at the country that gave her a better life," Vance said. "Now, that's not a crime."
"But we're going to see whether she did commit a crime. And if she did, we're obviously going to follow the law."
A spokesperson for Omar did not return multiple requests for comment throughout the week.
However, Omar has responded on social media.
"This raid by Trump’s DHS is an outrageous abuse of power and an unprecedented escalation in the weaponization of federal law enforcement to target political enemies," she said.
"For a decade, Donald Trump has relentlessly targeted Congresswoman Ilhan Omar with inflammatory rhetoric, repeatedly putting a target on her back. Now, those attacks have escalated to a pointless federal raid. The Congresswoman has done nothing wrong. No president should be able to use the power of the federal government to intimidate his political enemies."