Former President Joe Biden’s Department of Justice (DOJ) opened an investigation in 2024 into Democratic Minnesota Rep. Ilhan Omar, focusing on her personal finances, campaign spending, and contacts with a foreign national.
Federal prosecutors in Washington, D.C., working with the department’s public integrity unit, launched the inquiry in June 2024, people with knowledge of the matter told The New York Times. Investigators reviewed financial disclosures, campaign records, and related materials. The effort, however, lost momentum after agents failed to uncover evidence warranting further action, according to one person briefed on the internal deliberations, who spoke on condition of anonymity.
The dormant probe burst into public view Monday after President Donald Trump referenced it in a Truth Social post that caught DOJ officials off guard, the New York Times reported. Trump mentioned Omar while announcing changes to the team overseeing immigration enforcement in her Minneapolis-area district, misspelling her name in the process.
“The DOJ and Congress are looking at ‘Congresswoman’ Illhan Omar, who left Somalia with NOTHING, and is now reportedly worth more than 44 Million Dollars. Time will tell all,” Trump wrote.
Omar rejected the allegation and denied wrongdoing.
“Sorry, Trump, your support is collapsing and you’re panicking. Right on cue, you’re deflecting from your failures with lies and conspiracy theories about me. Years of ‘nvestigations’ have found nothing,” Omar posted.
Sorry, Trump, your support is collapsing and you’re panicking.
Should Congress investigate Ilhan Omar's finances further following the DOJ inquiry?Right on cue, you’re deflecting from your failures with lies and conspiracy theories about me. Years of “investigations” have found nothing.
Get your goons out of Minnesota. https://t.co/OXYdRIcdHB
— Ilhan Omar (@IlhanMN) January 26, 2026
There have been multiple allegations surrounding Omar’s finances and campaign funds. In 2019, Omar faced an investigation by the Minnesota Campaign Finance Board after complaints alleged she used nearly $6,000 in campaign funds for personal expenses, including payments to her divorce attorney and travel.
A few months later, investigators found that Omar filed joint tax returns in 2014 and 2015 with Ahmed Hirsi while she remained married to another man, according to Minnesota campaign finance officials. Regulators ordered Omar to pay a $3,500 fine over the tax filings and her misuse of thousands of dollars in campaign funds between 2016 and 2017.
In addition, Omar’s campaign reportedly paid tens of thousands of dollars in travel expenses to E. Street Group, a firm co-owned by political strategist Tim Mynett, according to Federal Election Commission records. The campaign disbursed at least $21,547 beginning in April 2019, shortly before Mynett’s wife alleged in divorce filings that he carried on an affair with Omar and that his extensive travel with her did not relate to his work for the firm.
A 2020 report showed her re-election campaign sent more than $600,000 to his firm in just three weeks and over $1.7 million total since 2018, according to FEC records.
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