Ilhan Omar’s Home Searched After Investigators Examined Sister’s Text Messages: Report
Investigators reviewed family texts from a seized phone and took Omar’s phone, laptop, notebooks and passport in the widening probe.
- Federal agents searched the Washington home of Rep Ilhan Omar on Monday after a federal judge approved the warrant based on text messages from Omar's sister, according to anonymous sources who spoke to the New York Times.
- Authorities are reviewing text messages from a phone belonging to Omar's sister, previously seized by officials, as part of an ongoing investigation into the Representative Omar's immigration status and financial disclosures.
- Lawyers for Omar demanded the return of seized items, including a laptop and passport, in a letter sent to federal prosecutors on Friday. They described the search as "neither justified nor lawful."
- Democrats condemned the raid as a "weaponization of federal power," while Secretary of Homeland Security Markwayne Mullin described the ongoing probe as a "strong case" during a Friday podcast appearance.
- The search appears to violate a longstanding DOJ norm against targeting candidates within roughly 60 days of election, despite insufficient evidence during President Donald Trump's first term prompting officials to decline prosecution.
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Family Text Messages Helped Investigators Obtain Warrant To Search Ilhan Omar’s Home: Report - American Liberty News
Federal investigators reportedly used text messages recovered from Rep. Ilhan Omar’s sister’s cellphone to help secure the warrant for last week’s search of the Minnesota Democrat’s Washington, D.C., home. The development offers new details about the evidence investigators reportedly presented before Homeland Security agents searched the congresswoman’s residence on October 12. According to The Daily […]
Judge Approved Ilhan Omar Raid After Reviewing Texts from Sister’s Seized Phone
Text messages recovered from Rep. Ilhan Omar’s (D-MN) sister’s phone helped federal investigators obtain the warrant to search the congresswoman’s Washington, D.C., home, according to a new report.
Family Text, Trash DNA Spark Federal Raid On Minnesota Rep. Ilhan Omar’s Home, Sources Say
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LINN: Ilhan Omar’s (soon to be) Rap Sheet
Ilhan Omar. A member of the Squad representing Minnesota’s 5th Congressional District. She was born in Somalia in 1982 (although it appears she was actually born in 1981). Her father was a Colonel in the Somali Army who entered the United States illegally since he never mentioned he was a communist (thus violating the Immigration …
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