Ilhan Omar’s Home Is Searched by Federal Agents
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Via: hallux • 4 weeks ago • 20 commentsBy: Sadie Gurman and John McCormick - WSJ
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WASHINGTON—Federal agents searched the Washington, D.C., home of Rep. Ilhan Omar (D., Minn.) Monday as part of a criminal investigation, people familiar with the matter said.
Agents from Homeland Security Investigations conducted the search, the people said. Details of the investigation couldn’t immediately be determined, but one of the people said it was long-running and immigration-related.
The Justice Department said the agents executed a court-authorized search in the District of Columbia area but declined to elaborate.
Omar’s office issued a statement strongly objecting to the search. “This raid by Trump’s DHS is an outrageous abuse of power and an unprecedented escalation in the weaponization of federal law enforcement to target political enemies. For a decade, Donald Trump has relentlessly targeted Congresswoman Ilhan Omar with inflammatory rhetoric, repeatedly putting a target on her back. Now, those attacks have escalated to a pointless federal raid.”
Secretary of Homeland Security Markwayne Mullin told a conservative podcaster in September that there was a continuing federal investigation into Omar, who he said “married her brother to try to bring him into the United States.” That is a claim she has denied for more than a decade.
Mullin said federal officials were investigating her past marriage as well as how her family immigrated to the U.S. In a Wall Street Journal interview earlier this year, Omar said she was never married to her brother and never committed immigration fraud.
Omar, 44 years old, has long been a top target for attacks from President Trump and conservatives, as well as GOP investigations. A welfare-fraud scandal in Minnesota—heavily tied to her fellow Somali immigrants—has only added fuel to the fire.
Born in Mogadishu, Somalia, in 1982 into an affluent family, Omar arrived in the U.S. in the 1990s. After initially settling in the suburbs of Washington, D.C., her family moved to Minnesota as she entered high school.
Omar shares her Washington home with her husband, Tim Mynett, a former political consultant who once was on her campaign’s payroll. In recent years, he has been involved in several businesses, including a venture-capital management firm in Washington, D.C., and a winery in Santa Rosa, Calif.
The congresswoman was first elected in 2018 from a heavily Democratic district that includes Minneapolis. She is one of the original members of what is known as the Squad, a group of progressive congresswomen of color known for challenging Democratic leadership and being vocal Trump critics.
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"Secretary of Homeland Security Markwayne Mullin told a conservative podcaster in September that there was a continuing federal investigation into Omar, who he said “married her brother to try to bring him into the United States.” That is a claim she has denied for more than a decade."
A claim regurgitated so ad nauseum the ASPCA should fine the spewers for cruelty to squirrels.
They are never going to leave her alone.
The sad part is she isnt even a major figure in Congress.
welcome to the rollout of trump's new constitution-free america ...
Nice precedent for the next group of jackasses with a fake grudge.
good will prevail over evil, one way or another ...
They keep going this way it will end in bloodshed.
that's what they want ...
they've been talking about civil war on xtian nationalist radio for years ...
Going fishing.
I wonder if they strike-out as badly as most of the other cases this administration attempts to bring against Trump's enemies list.
If history is any indicator someone in the DOJ will lose their job and another useless hack will fill a slot.
it's trump's midterm theatrics for the mentally defective unamerican scum that were already going to vote maga ...
And a search warrant means she is absolutely guilty and she she should be barred from office. -see reaction to Trump search warrants..
She did, almost certainly, marry her brother and commit immigration fraud.
are you as certain as you were in the talarico case ?
Last time this was discussed I shared the evidence she married her brother and the progressive response was "that's too much to read" and now a federal judge agrees there's probable cause to believe she did.
give us a link to your evidence so we can evaluate its credibility
Again, been there done that. I spent enough time looking for it only to be told "it's too much to read." I'm not wasting my time on people who've made their mind up and refuse to actually look at it.
more like too much maga bullshit to read ...
Is she eating people's pets?
gee, that almost sounds biblical, why would thumpers be so upset about it ...
Seems right.
Besides likely marrying her brother, her father was a soviet trained henchman for a brutal dictator who was complicit in a genocide (not one of the ones the left obsesses over, of course)