Politics · 19 d ago
Federal agents seize Ilhan Omar's phone in an immigration probe
Agents searched the Washington home of U.S. Representative Ilhan Omar, a Minnesota Democrat, on Monday, in a probe of possible fraud in her family's immigration paperwork.
What we know
- Her home was searched and her phone seized
- More than a dozen grand jury subpoenas
- A second probe into her financial disclosures
Not yet
- The full scope of the investigation
- Why it moved weeks before the midterms
More than a dozen grand jury subpoenas have gone out, some to her relatives, according to people briefed on the probe, and a separate investigation looks at her financial disclosures.
The usual quiet period before an election
60 days
The search came three weeks before the November midterms, in which Omar seeks re-election, although the Justice Department usually avoids public steps against a candidate within 60 days of an election.
Omar denies any wrongdoing and called the search an “attempt to target political enemies and weaponize federal law enforcement.”
— Ilhan Omar
