Tim Mynett rejected rumors that Rep. Ilhan Omar fled the United States after a federal raid on their D.C. home, saying he has no concerns about the probe.
On Wednesday, Mynett stepped out of the couple’s shared rental home in Washington, D.C., walked their golden Labrador, Teddy, took out the trash, and escorted one of his wife’s congressional staffers. Reporters pressed him on talk that the Minnesota Democrat had left the country after federal agents hit the residence Monday.
He did not give a clean yes-or-no. He complained that cameras and questions were bothering the block, then stuck to a simple line on the immigration paperwork case surrounding his wife: he has no concerns.
Fox News Digital first reported the Homeland Security Investigations raid as part of a criminal fraud investigation looking into Omar’s immigration paperwork. Omar has not been seen publicly since the search, which fueled the fled-country rumors Mynett faced outside the house.
The scene was ordinary on the surface. A staffer carried two large Burger King bags into the home. Security escorted her and stayed in place after she went inside. Mynett later headed out again with Teddy for an evening walk when the fled-country question came.
Mynett told the crew the pressure on the street was the problem, not the investigation’s direction.
"You guys are annoying the h*** out of all the neighbors around here, man,"
Earlier this week he also framed Omar’s arrival in America as a child’s refugee path and repeated that he is not worried about what federal authorities will find.
"My wife came here when she was 12 years old as a child war refugee,"
He added a flat closer.
"No concerns."
That answer lands against a hard fact pattern already on the public record from the same week: a home search, reported seizures, family subpoenas, and a separate look at money disclosures. Readers can track the same D.C. home raid and phone seizure in earlier coverage of the probe.
During the Monday search, authorities reportedly seized Omar’s cellphone and passport. The New York Post reported the haul also included notebooks and personal computers from the bungalow, and that the Justice Department is examining whether her U.S. citizenship was obtained through concealment or misrepresentation tied to her birthdate and immigration details.
That citizenship path matters. Reporting describes Omar gaining status automatically through her father’s naturalization when she was 17. Records discussed in coverage show a birth-year change from 1981 to 1982 published through the Minnesota Legislative Reference Library, including during her time in the Minnesota House and into her early months in Congress. If the earlier year held, she would have been 18 at naturalization and no longer a minor under the rule that made the grant automatic.
At least two relatives were reportedly subpoenaed in the immigration-paperwork track, including her sister Sahra Noor. The Post account put the grand jury paper count higher, with more than a dozen subpoenas to family. Minnesota prosecutors are described as leading the immigration fraud side while the D.C. U.S. attorney’s office handles finances.
Omar’s office rejected the premise of a deportation push and said there is no basis for it. The same office has also had to clean up a separate paper trail on wealth. Background on the federal search of Omar’s home has already laid out how fast this file moved from a neighborhood raid to national scrutiny.
Omar’s 2024 congressional financial disclosure listed business interests tied to Mynett between $6 million and $30 million. His winery share was valued between $1 million and $5 million. His stake in a venture capital advisory firm was valued between $5 million and $25 million. The filing later changed. Both equity interests now show $0.
Omar’s office said the earlier numbers were wrong. It told reporters Mynett has partners in both businesses, that the first version reflected total equity rather than his ownership slice, and that assets were listed without matching liabilities. The swing still drew a direct public challenge from President Donald Trump on Tuesday.
"Why did Ilhan Omar report a Net Worth of up to 30 Million Dollars just a short time ago, and then immediately say, \"Oh, I made a mistake! It’s really $100,000.\" Could it be that her highly paid accountant actually reported the money that was stolen from her fraudulent activities in Minnesota? Would something like that be possible? Do you think the accountant actually gave the right number the first time, 30 Million Dollars, and then she was forced to disavow because she never would have been able to report where that much money came from? She must have freaked out when she saw that money!"
Trump pressed further on houses, cars, the D.C. place, and how many people she brought from Somalia, arguing her husband makes almost nothing and that the country wants answers now. In related remarks captured in follow-on reporting, he also called her a complainer who attacks the Constitution after coming from what he labeled a non-country.
U.S. Attorney Jeanine Pirro said Tuesday her office is investigating the financial disclosures on the couple’s shared net worth. Officials noted that money inquiry is separate from the home raid. The sequence, search on Monday, Pirro’s finance comments on Tuesday, Mynett on the sidewalk Wednesday, left little daylight between the immigration file and the disclosure fight, even if the offices call them distinct. The Pirro financial disclosures probe landed one day after agents went through the house.
No charges, arrests, or indictments are stated in the current reporting. What is stated is concrete enough: a criminal fraud investigation into immigration paperwork, a searched D.C. residence, a seized passport and phone, family subpoenas, an amended wealth filing that collapsed million-dollar ranges to zero, and a husband who calls the press a neighborhood nuisance while insisting the immigration path will hold.
Denaturalization, if the government ever proves fraud in how citizenship was obtained, is a civil track with no statute of limitations under the framework described in the Post reporting. That is the stakes line hanging over a member of Congress who has not been seen in public since Monday’s raid. Prior tips about date discrepancies, the same reporting notes, did not get traction under the prior administration.
Mynett’s public posture is defiance mixed with irritation. Omar’s office calls the deportation talk baseless and treats the finance revision as a technical correction. Trump is demanding a full accounting of money and migration. HSI and prosecutors are still gathering paper and devices. For a longer look at how Homeland agents handled the phone seizure in the paperwork probe, the raid’s first hours remain the clearest window into how serious the government is treating the file.
Political blowback followed the search itself, with Republicans pointing at earlier Democratic precedents when fury rose over a sitting member’s home being hit. That fight over norms does not erase the documents problem. A birth year that moved on the state library record, a passport taken from a D.C. rental, and a net-worth chart that fell off a cliff after it hit daylight are not cable slogans. They are file facts.
Lawful immigration rests on honest paperwork. When a high-profile lawmaker’s own forms, dates, and disclosures become the case file, voters are right to expect straight answers, not a quiet exit from the cameras and a husband waving off the neighbors.
