U.S. Attorney Jeanine Pirro said her office is investigating Rep. Ilhan Omar’s financial disclosures one day after federal agents searched the congresswoman’s Washington home in a separate criminal probe.
Fox News reported that District of Columbia U.S. Attorney Jeanine Pirro appeared on “America Reports” on Tuesday and said her office is examining the Minnesota Democrat’s financial disclosure filings.
The timing landed hard. A day earlier, Homeland Security Investigations agents executed a judicially authorized search warrant at Omar’s Washington, D.C., home.
The Justice Department confirmed the Monday search as part of an ongoing federal criminal investigation. Two sources familiar with the probe said it involves her immigration paperwork. Officials have not said whether that warrant ties to the financial review Pirro described.
Omar has repeatedly maintained she is not a millionaire. Her original disclosure numbers told a different story before she amended them.
Businesses tied to her husband, Tim Mynett, were reported at values that surged from as much as $51,000 in 2023 to as much as $30 million in 2024. eStCru LLC, a California-based winery, moved from a range of $15,000 to $50,000 up to $1 million to $5 million. Rose Lake Capital LLC, a Washington, D.C.-based venture capital firm, jumped from between $1 and $1,000 to between $5 million and $25 million.
Combined, the reported ranges ran from roughly $15,000 to $51,000 in 2023 to between $6 million and $30 million the next year. Financial disclosure forms list assets in broad ranges, not exact dollars. Even so, the swing was massive on paper.
In April, Omar amended the disclosures. The revised filing cut combined reported assets to between $18,004 and $95,000 and listed the two businesses as having no net value after liabilities. Her office said the original forms had failed to properly account for those liabilities and had created a misleading picture of the couple’s finances.
The latest annual disclosure, filed in May, listed assets totaling between about $20,000 and $125,000, according to a Minnesota Star Tribune analysis cited in the coverage. That filing also reported student loan and credit card debt tied to her husband.
House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer, R-Ky., had already moved on the paper trail. In February he requested financial records and communications related to eStCru LLC and Rose Lake Capital LLC.
Those requests put the husband’s businesses under formal scrutiny well before Pirro’s public comments. Taxpayers and voters are entitled to clear numbers from members of Congress. Wide swings followed by quiet corrections invite exactly this kind of review.
In September, the Office of Congressional Conduct voted 5-1 to recommend that the House Ethics Committee dismiss misconduct allegations stemming from the financial disclosures. The office found there was not substantial reason to believe Omar had reported false or incomplete information in violation of federal law or House rules.
Omar’s office called that outcome vindication and said she had done nothing wrong. That congressional review sits apart from the federal investigation Pirro described. A closed ethics file does not bind federal prosecutors, and it does not erase the earlier valuation spike or the later amendment.
The home search fits a wider federal look at Omar’s immigration history. The New York Post reported that relatives, including her sister Sahra Noor, received subpoenas in a federal criminal fraud probe into the congresswoman’s immigration paperwork and family history.
Investigators are examining whether her late father, Nur Omar Mohamed, omitted information on immigration forms before citizenship. USCIS documents obtained earlier showed “no record” of the father’s naturalization. Omar has denied wrongdoing and accused the Trump administration of targeting her for political reasons.
In a statement on X, Omar said:
"I’m ok. Make no mistake: this is an attempt to target political enemies and weaponize federal law enforcement."
She added:
"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."
Political pushback is not a substitute for complete filings or accurate immigration records. Federal agents used a judge-approved warrant. Pirro’s office is now on the disclosure numbers. Separate tracks can still point at the same basic demand: follow the rules that bind everyone else.
Somali-born and representing Minnesota, Omar has long drawn sharp criticism from President Donald Trump and congressional Republicans. None of that history cancels the arithmetic on her forms or the fact of a warranted search.
Public office runs on trust and paperwork. When asset ranges leap into the millions and then collapse after an amendment, and when federal agents are already at the door on another track, voters get to ask hard questions, and prosecutors get to test the answers.
