U.S. Attorney Jeanine Pirro confirmed a separate investigation into Rep. Ilhan Omar’s finances after federal agents raided the Minnesota Democrat’s Washington home, widening the pressure on her record.
Breitbart News reported that the United States Attorney for the District of Columbia told Fox News her office has opened a finances inquiry distinct from the immigration-related work already under way at the Department of Justice and the Department of Homeland Security.
The confirmation came after Homeland Security Investigations agents searched Omar’s Washington, D.C., home on Monday under a warrant signed by a judge in the capital. Pirro’s remarks placed the money questions on a track of their own while other federal offices pressed citizenship and paperwork issues.
That dual track matters. One office is looking at how Omar got here and what she told the government. Another is now looking at what she told Congress about her wealth. Both rest on documents, sworn filings, and probable cause, not on speeches or cable sound bites.
Homeland Security Investigations agents executed the search at Omar’s D.C. residence. Federal agents searched the property as part of the broader immigration-related case, and reporting described boxes of material leaving the home.
Pirro defended the process in plain terms. A federal judge had to sign off before agents could enter.
On Fox News, Pirro said:
"That judge would not have signed that warrant unless there was probable cause."
She added that the standard was likely higher “given the individual who’s involved,” and she tied the timing to a political calendar only weeks from the midterms. The point was institutional, not theatrical: a judge saw enough to authorize the search.
The New York Post reported that HSI agents removed boxes of evidence and that Pirro’s office is leading the finances side while the Minnesota U.S. Attorney’s Office handles alleged immigration fraud, including questions about a false birth-date statement.
Fox News host John Roberts raised earlier allegations about Omar’s net worth and finances. Pirro did not dodge the subject.
She stated:
"That is subject of an investigation as well."
Fox News reported that the disclosures under review show businesses tied to Omar’s husband, Tim Mynett, jumping from as much as $51,000 in 2023 to as much as $30 million in 2024. Omar later amended those filings to put reported assets between $18,004 and $95,000, saying liabilities had not been properly counted.
House members file public financial disclosures so voters can see conflicts and sudden wealth. A swing of that size, followed by a sharp amendment, is exactly the kind of paper trail a prosecutor’s office is built to test. Pirro’s team is now doing that work.
Readers following the money angle can also see how Pirro opened the filings probe in the immediate aftermath of the home search, a sequence that kept both the immigration and finance questions live at once.
Since the raid, reporting has focused on the birth date Omar used when she immigrated from Somalia. A New York Post account described how her office had her official birth year changed in public records from 1981 to 1982 after she won election to Congress. Separate coverage has long noted the Biden-era Justice Department had already looked at her finances after reports of a multimillion-dollar net worth built since she arrived on Capitol Hill.
Just the News reported that the DOJ has issued subpoenas for several of Omar’s relatives, including her sister Sahra Noor, and that DHS agents searched the D.C. home under a warrant approved by a federal magistrate judge. The same account placed Pirro’s financial-disclosures case inside that wider federal effort.
Omar has described her path to citizenship in earlier interviews. She told The Intercept she became a citizen before she turned 18 because her father naturalized and she obtained status through that process. Investigators, not pundits, will decide whether the documents match the story.
Related enforcement steps have already included a phone seizure in the same orbit of cases, part of the pattern laid out when agents took Omar’s cellphone during the immigration-fraud activity.
Pirro refused to let other branches or agencies set the pace. She made clear her office answers to the evidence.
She said:
"It doesn’t matter what the House does. It doesn’t matter, you know, what this agency or that does. We’re looking at the facts. Based upon the facts, we’ll follow them wherever they take us."
And she framed the end state without hedging:
"There are several investigations going on, and I don’t think there’s any question, but if there was a crime that was committed, it will be prosecuted."
That language is the job description of a U.S. attorney. It does not depend on caucus loyalty, media narratives, or the next floor vote. It depends on whether the filings, the immigration file, and the search returns support charges.
The same office has shown it will move volume when the facts are there, including the kind of street-level and gun cases highlighted when Pirro announced dozens of indictments in a District crackdown. High-profile political names do not get a softer rulebook; they get the same one.
Put the verified pieces side by side. A judge in Washington signed a search warrant on probable cause. HSI agents searched the congresswoman’s D.C. home and removed evidence. DOJ and DHS are running an immigration-related case that has included family subpoenas. Pirro’s office has opened its own review of the financial disclosures, including the spike in assets tied to her husband’s businesses and the later amendment that collapsed those numbers. Minnesota’s federal prosecutors are in the immigration lane. Birth-year changes in public records after her election remain part of the public reporting.
None of that is a closed case. No charging decision is in the material at hand. Open questions remain on the precise statutes, the full warrant language, and whether civil or criminal counts follow. What is no longer open is whether federal prosecutors are treating the finances file as real work. Pirro said they are.
For readers tracking how the home search fit the immigration focus, the earlier account of how an HSI search pointed to immigration fraud sits in the same factual lane as this finances confirmation.
Lawmakers who lecture the country on equity and transparency do not get to skip the disclosure forms or the naturalization file. When sudden wealth claims, amended reports, disputed birth records, and a warranted search land on the same desk calendar, the clean response is the one Pirro gave: follow the facts, and prosecute if the facts show a crime.