Rep. Ilhan Omar faces two federal investigations

Fox News posted a YouTube video titled "'BEWILDERING': Ilhan Omar stuns legal expert with latest move." The channel's description says the clip covers Minnesota Rep. Ilhan Omar facing two federal investigations.

U.S. Attorney Jeanine Pirro said on Fox News' "America Reports" that "there are several investigations going on." Homeland Security Investigations agents had executed a search warrant on Omar's Washington, D.C., home before dawn Monday, Oct. 12. The Wall Street Journal reported that her phone, computers and passport were seized. Agents were seen leaving with boxes.

The New York Post, citing sources familiar with the probes and an administration official, reported that Omar is under federal scrutiny over possible immigration fraud and over claims of net worth inflated by tens of millions of dollars on House disclosure forms. Minnesota prosecutors are leading the immigration inquiry, that account said. Pirro's office is reviewing the financial filings in Washington.

Omar's 2024 disclosure listed $6 million to $30 million in assets tied to two businesses run by her husband, Tim Mynett. The year before, those assets were valued at $15,000 to $51,000. The winery eStCru LLC jumped from $15,000-$50,000 in 2023 to $1 million-$5 million in 2024. Rose Lake Capital LLC rose from $1-$1,000 to $5 million-$25 million. The National Legal and Policy Center filed a complaint with the Office of Congressional Conduct in February. Omar amended the form to $18,004-$95,000 in combined assets and valued the businesses at zero, citing an accounting error. In September the Office of Congressional Conduct voted 5-1 to recommend that the House Ethics Committee dismiss the allegations.

People familiar with the immigration case told NBC News that roughly a dozen subpoenas went out, including to family members. The New York Times reported that Omar's sister, Sahra Noor, received a grand jury subpoena. Fox News Digital reported that Mynett appeared outside the D.C. residence during the raid to defend Omar's immigration timeline. In a statement posted online Monday, Omar called the search "an attempt to target political enemies and weaponize federal law enforcement" and said that for ten years Trump had targeted her with "baseless lies and smear campaigns."

"Well, I understand they’re looking at her very carefully," President Donald Trump said Monday. "I’ve always found her to be totally crooked, personally, but that has nothing to do with me." He added: "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." Trump attacked her again that evening at a rally in Ohio. Vice President JD Vance told Fox News Digital, "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." He 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." On whether action against a sitting member of Congress would be unprecedented, Vance said: "And to the question of it being unprecedented, I mean, what I'd say is that Ilhan Omar herself is a very unprecedented person." He continued: "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."