[UPDATE] DHS Secretary Mullin says the Omar case is headed to a grand jury; her lawyers want seized items back
Mullin says agents served several other warrants the same day they searched Ilhan Omar's Washington home.
Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin says Ilhan Omar's (Rep-D Minnesota) case, "a strong case" built on a judge-signed warrant and others served Monday, Oct. 12, will go to a grand jury. Omar is uncharged, her lawyers want the seized items back, and Trump officials who examined her in 2019 found no citizenship problems.
PREVIOUSLY
- Oct. 12 — Federal agents searched Omar's Washington home in a criminal immigration-fraud probe over papers her late father filed when she was a child; she became a citizen in 2000, at 17.
- Oct. 13 — D.C. U.S. Attorney Jeanine Pirro told Fox News her office is examining Omar's financial disclosures, which valued husband Tim Mynett's two businesses at $15,000–$51,000 for 2023 and $6 million–$30 million for 2024; an April amendment, which Omar's office blamed on an accounting error, cut the couple's reported assets to $18,004–$95,000. Trump said he takes "no position" on deporting her.
- Oct. 14 — Reports showed agents took her personal phone and a Minnesota grand jury subpoenaed her relatives, as investigators examined whether her age was falsified.
Where it stands:
- Mullin: "We had a judge sign it, and we expect to be able to take the case to a grand jury… it's a strong case."
- Omar's lawyers asked federal prosecutors to return the items seized from her Washington home.
- Omar calls the investigation political; it concerns immigration papers her family filed decades ago.