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Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., told Fox News Digital on Tuesday she was never informed by federal agencies of the grounds on which she is being investigated — even claiming she isn’t sure how many probes into her there are.
“No, no,” she said when asked if she had been told exactly the basis for the investigations.
There are two known ongoing federal probes into the Somali-born congresswoman — the first, confirmed by sources to Fox News Digital, is the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) looking into whether her immigration paperwork was fraudulently filled out by herself or her father; and the second is investigating her financial disclosures discrepancies and was confirmed publicly by U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia Jeanine Pirro.
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Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., is denying that federal agents have told her what she is under investigation for and spoke to Fox News Digital about the status of her items that were seized after her Washington, D.C., home was raided Oct. 12, 2026. (REUTERS/Elizabeth Frantz)
On Omar’s first day back on Capitol Hill following the investigations, she told Fox News Digital she doesn’t know if DHS and the Department of Justice (DOJ) are each investigating her independently.
“I’m not sure,” Omar said. “You probably have more details on that.”
The congresswoman’s feigned innocence on the matter came after she had a two-hour meeting with her lawyers at her Capitol Hill office on Tuesday.
The news of the federal investigations first gained steam after Fox News Digital first reported that agents with Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) were executing a federal raid on Omar’s Washington, D.C., residence on Oct. 12. Sources confirmed the search was in relation to an investigation into Omar’s immigration paperwork.
The Somali-born lawmaker arrived in the U.S. in 1995 as a refugee fleeing civil war after spending four years in a refugee camp in Kenya.
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Homeland Security Investigations police search the home of Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., on Oct. 12, 2026, in Washington, D.C. According to reports, the search is part of an ongoing criminal investigation. (Andrew Leyden/Getty Images)
Federal agents reportedly seized the congresswoman’s cellphone, passport and computer. Fox News Digital also later confirmed that a sample of the congresswoman’s DNA was also obtained during the raid.
Omar told Fox News Digital on Tuesday that “most” of the items seized during the raid have been returned to her possession.
“I’ve gotten most of them back,” Omar said.
More information continues to come to light as the investigations proceed, including a federal court filing identifying Omar by the name “Ilhan Nur Said Elmi,” which matches the last name of her ex-husband, whom reports have alleged is her brother.
The marriage continues to draw scrutiny after the Daily Caller recently reported that her ex-husband Ahmed Nur Said Elmi, who is alleged to be her brother, described himself as a “gay man” in an academic paper that was published earlier this year.
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Omar ignored Fox News Digital’s questioning about her ex-husband and rumored brother referring to himself as “gay” in Aug. 2026, just months before HSI raided her house and federal investigations got underway.
The congresswoman is still under investigation as she returns to Capitol Hill after winning re-election to represent Minnesota’s 5th Congressional District. Her two high-profile lawyers, Amy Jeffress and Joshua Matz, were seen leaving her office in the Longworth House Office Building after a roughly two-hour meeting.
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Omar’s team did not respond to Fox News Digital’s request for comment.