Ilhan Omar Details DC Raid and Denies Immigration-Fraud Allegations
Omar says agents seized 17 items and that the probe is politically motivated, while she again rejects allegations she married her brother.
- On Wednesday, Democratic Rep. Ilhan Omar denied allegations of immigration fraud and marrying her brother during an interview with MS NOW host Chris Hayes, responding "Not to my knowledge" when pressed on the claim.
- Homeland Security Investigations agents executed a search warrant at Omar's Washington residence on October 12, spending four to five hours and removing 17 items including her passport, phones, and notebooks.
- Omar dismissed the "insane" accusations as originating from an obscure Somali forum seized by conservative activists in Minneapolis, claiming the Trump administration orchestrated a "political" spectacle to intimidate her.
- President Donald Trump called the congresswoman "a sick, very dishonest person" on Tuesday, emphasizing "she could go to jail," while investigators issued more than a dozen grand jury subpoenas.
- The federal probe examines whether Omar or her late father misrepresented her age on immigration paperwork. She rejected claims of secret wealth, saying she remains "working class, I guess, like paycheck to paycheck still.
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Ilhan Omar Says 'Not to My Knowledge' on Brother Marriage
Rep. Ilhan Omar said she does not know if she married her brother, a hedged answer after federal agents searched her D.C. home in an immigration probe. In her first sit-down interview since the search, the Minnesota Democrat denied wedding her former husband to commit immigration fraud and tried to bat away years of questions […]
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