Ilhan Omar’s husband snapped at reporters after Homeland Security agents raided their Washington home, as rumors she left the country collided with a separate probe of her finances.
Federal agents from Homeland Security Investigations hit Rep. Ilhan Omar’s Washington, D.C., residence on Monday as part of a criminal fraud investigation into the Minnesota Democrat’s immigration paperwork. By Wednesday, her husband, political consultant Tim Mynett, was still coming and going from the shared rental home while the congresswoman herself had not been seen in public.
Fox News Digital approached Mynett near the house and pressed him on reports that Omar had left the United States. He did not answer the question. He told the reporters they were bothering the neighbors.
"You guys are annoying the h*** out of all the neighbors around here, man,"
Mynett then offered a brief defense of his wife’s background and said he had no worries about the investigation.
"My wife came here when she was 12 years old as a child war refugee,"
"No concerns."
The exchange left the core rumor unanswered. Omar has not appeared publicly since the raid. Her cellphone and passport were reportedly taken during the search. At least two relatives, including her reported sister Sahra Noor, received subpoenas tied to the same Homeland Security Investigations case.
A Department of Justice spokesperson confirmed the Monday action. Fox News reported that Homeland Security Investigations carried out a judicially authorized search warrant around 6 a.m. as part of an ongoing federal investigation.
"Today in the Washington, D.C., area, Homeland Security Investigations executed a judicially authorized search warrant secured by the Department of Justice. This enforcement action is part of an ongoing federal investigation,"
The probe centers on immigration paperwork completed by Omar’s late father when she was a child. Long-running questions about her age at entry and naturalization sit at the center of that review. Records at the Minnesota Legislative Reference Library show her birth year was adjusted from 1981 to 1982 with help from her congressional staff. That change mattered because citizenship claims tied to her father’s naturalization hinged on whether she was still a minor.
Omar denounced the raid as political targeting. In a post on X she said she was fine and would not be silenced. Her communications director, Jacklyn Rogers, called the search an abuse of power. Just the News carried both statements in full.
"I'm ok. Make no mistake: this is an attempt to target political enemies and weaponize federal law enforcement. For ten years, Trump has targeted me with baseless lies and smear campaigns. This is just the latest escalation in his campaign of political intimidation. I will not be silenced."
Those claims land against a documented paper trail. The same week, officials noted that a separate financial review of Omar’s disclosures is underway and is not part of the home search. U.S. Attorney Jeanine Pirro said Tuesday her office is examining how Omar reported shared net worth with her husband. Pirro told interviewers that if a crime was committed, it will be prosecuted.
Omar’s 2024 congressional financial disclosure listed business interests tied to Mynett valued between $6 million and $30 million. Those figures later collapsed. The winery stake once carried as $1 million to $5 million and the venture-capital advisory stake once carried as $5 million to $25 million both dropped to $0 after an amendment. Omar’s office said the original filing mistakenly reflected total business equity instead of Mynett’s actual ownership share and failed to account for liabilities.
President Donald Trump highlighted the swing on Truth Social on Tuesday. He asked why a net worth reported as high as $30 million was suddenly revised to roughly $100,000 and questioned the source of the couple’s house, cars, and D.C. residence. Trump noted that Mynett, by public accounts, earns little on his own.
Breitbart reported that agents seized Omar’s cellphone during the raid and that the immigration-fraud inquiry includes questions about her age when she entered the country in 1995. The same coverage noted the parallel financial scrutiny of her net-worth reporting.
Wednesday’s scene at the rental home added ordinary details to an extraordinary week. Mynett walked the couple’s dog Teddy, took out trash, and escorted one of Omar’s congressional staffers from the property. The staffer arrived carrying two large Burger King bags. Security walked her to the door and remained out front after she went inside.
The current searches sit atop years of unresolved questions about Omar’s marital timeline. National Review revisited the record: Omar married British citizen Ahmed Nur Said Elmi in 2009 and divorced him in 2017. She has repeatedly denied claims that Elmi is her brother and that the marriage helped him obtain immigration or student benefits. A Minnesota campaign-finance board earlier found she filed joint tax returns with Ahmed Hirsi in 2014 and 2015 while still legally married to Elmi.
Those older allegations now travel with fresh federal paper. Federal agents searched the D.C. home under a warrant tied to immigration fraud, and relatives have been compelled to produce records. The public still has no charging document and no confirmation of Omar’s location since Monday.
Mynett’s “no concerns” line is the only direct comment from inside the household. He did not address the seized passport, the subpoenas, or the sudden disappearance of multi-million-dollar asset values from the couple’s disclosure forms. He did not say where his wife is.
Officials have drawn a bright line between the two tracks. The Homeland Security Investigations raid targets immigration paperwork. Pirro’s office is separately reviewing the financial disclosures. Both are active. Neither has produced public charges.
For a member of Congress who built a national profile on immigration and accountability, the optics are plain. Agents carried out a warrant at her door. Her phone and passport left with them. Family members were subpoenaed. Her husband waved reporters off while walking the dog. The revised net-worth forms still sit on the public record with the earlier, far higher numbers crossed out.
Taxpayers and voters are left with the same basic demands the president voiced: Where did the money go, where is the congresswoman, and what exactly did the immigration files say when she entered the country? Federal investigators now hold the devices and the paper. Answers should follow the evidence, not the spin.
Accountability does not pause for members of Congress. When the search warrants and the disclosure forms point in the same direction, the public is right to expect straight answers instead of neighbor complaints and vanishing asset totals.