Rep. Ilhan Omar's Attorneys Demand Return of Property Seized in Federal Search of Her Home
Her lawyers called the search unlawful and politically motivated, and asked the department to preserve all audio and video from the operation.
- On Friday, attorneys for Representative Ilhan Omar asked the Justice Department to immediately return property federal agents seized during a search of her Washington home on Monday.
- Homeland Security officers conducted the search as part of an immigration fraud investigation, though Omar's legal team stated there is "no legitimate basis for any suggestion that she has violated any law concerning her citizenship status."
- Federal authorities seized Omar's phone and issued over a dozen grand jury subpoenas, while the lawmaker has broadly denied allegations of marriage fraud as "disgusting lies" and called the insinuations "absurd and offensive."
- Lawyers described the inquiry as a "politically motivated criminal investigation" targeting a critic of Republican President Donald Trump, with the search occurring just weeks before midterm elections in which the Democrat is on the ballot.
- President Trump told reporters he had "nothing to do" with the action, though Omar's attorneys argued the investigation "violates Representative Omar's constitutional rights and threatens the separation of powers.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — Attorneys for Rep. Ilhan Omar asked the Justice Department on Friday to immediately return property that federal agents seized from her home this week, arguing that the search stemming from an immigration fraud investigation was “neither justified nor lawful.” In a letter obtained by The Associated Press, lawyers for the Democrat from...
U.S. Rep. Ilhan Omar’s attorneys demand return of property seized in federal search of her home
Attorneys for Rep. Ilhan Omar asked the U.S. Justice Department on Friday to immediately return property that federal agents seized from her home this week, arguing that the search stemming from an immigration fraud investigation was “neither justified nor lawful.”
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Rep. Ilhan Omar’s attorneys demand return of property seized in federal search of her home
WASHINGTON (AP) — Attorneys for Rep. Ilhan Omar asked the Justice Department on Friday to immediately return property that federal agents seized from her home this week, arguing that the search stemming from an immigration fraud investigation was “neither justified…
Rep. Ilhan Omar's attorneys demand return of property seized in f
WASHINGTON (AP) — Attorneys for Rep. Ilhan Omar asked the Justice Department on Friday to immediately return property that federal agents seized from her home this week , arguing that the search stemming from an immigration fraud
Rep. Ilhan Omar's attorneys demand return of property seized in federal search of her home
WASHINGTON (AP) — Attorneys for Rep. Ilhan Omar asked the Justice Department on Friday to immediately return property that federal agents seized from her home this week, arguing that the search stemming from an immigration fraud investigation was “neither justified nor lawful.”
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