WASHINGTON — Federal investigators have subpoenaed relatives of Rep. Ilhan Omar, including her sister Sahra Noor, as a criminal investigation into the Minnesota Democrat’s immigration history widened a day after agents searched her Washington home, The New York Times reported on Tuesday.
The subpoenas, issued to Noor and at least one other person in Omar’s family circle, seek evidence about possible fraud and false statements in immigration paperwork, according to the Times, which cited people familiar with the investigation. Fox News reported that it had independently learned subpoenas were sent to multiple members of Omar’s family.
Investigators are examining whether Omar’s late father, Nur Omar Mohamed, lied or omitted information on immigration forms before becoming a U.S. citizen, the Times reported. Omar has long said she became a citizen at 17 through her father’s naturalization.
The subpoenas follow Monday’s pre-dawn search of the home Omar shares with her husband, Tim Mynett. The Justice Department confirmed that Homeland Security Investigations agents executed a judicially authorized search warrant as part of an ongoing federal criminal investigation, and border czar Tom Homan described the probe as criminal.
U.S. Attorney Jeanine Pirro said on Fox News on Tuesday that her office is investigating Omar over several issues, including immigration and financial disclosure reports, and that a judge signed the search warrant because prosecutors showed probable cause. Pirro said an earlier congressional conduct inquiry, which was dropped after Omar said a disclosure figure was an accounting error, was irrelevant to her criminal investigation.
Grand jury subpoenas compel testimony and records; receiving one does not by itself mean a person is suspected of wrongdoing. The precise scope of the investigation remains unclear, and previous federal inquiries into Omar’s immigration history have not resulted in criminal charges.
Omar has denied any wrongdoing. “Make no mistake: this is an attempt to target political enemies and weaponize federal law enforcement,” she wrote on X on Monday, adding, “I will not be silenced.” On Tuesday she posted a video compiling clips of her criticizing President Donald Trump and reporters, without directly addressing the search. Trump told reporters on Monday that he had nothing to do with the search.
House Democratic Leader Hakeem Jeffries has called the search of Omar’s home an “extraordinary raid.” Noor, a Minneapolis-based consultant and author of a recent memoir about immigrating from Somalia, did not immediately respond to requests for comment, according to the New York Post.
