U.S. Attorney Jeanine Pirro says her office is examining Rep. Ilhan Omar’s financial disclosures one day after Homeland Security agents searched the congresswoman’s Washington home in a separate criminal probe.
District of Columbia U.S. Attorney Jeanine Pirro told Fox News on Tuesday that her office is investigating Rep. Ilhan Omar’s financial disclosures, a development that landed one day after federal agents searched the Minnesota Democrat’s Washington, D.C., home.
The Justice Department confirmed that Homeland Security Investigations agents executed a judicially authorized search warrant Monday as part of an ongoing federal criminal investigation. Two sources familiar with the probe said the search involved Omar’s immigration paperwork. Whether that warrant ties to the financial-disclosure inquiry remains unclear.
Fox News reported the sequence after Pirro appeared on “America Reports” and described the work now underway in her office.
The timing puts fresh pressure on a long-running dispute over how Omar and her husband, Tim Mynett, reported business assets on House forms, filings that once showed a sudden jump into the tens of millions before a sharp downward amendment.
Congressional financial disclosure forms list assets in broad ranges rather than exact dollars. On those forms, businesses tied to Mynett, California-based winery eStCru LLC and Washington-based venture firm Rose Lake Capital LLC, moved from modest reported values in 2023 to far higher ranges in 2024.
Combined, the reported values rose from roughly $15,000 to $51,000 in 2023 to between $6 million and $30 million the next year. eStCru alone went from the $15,000, $50,000 band to $1 million, $5 million. Rose Lake moved from $1, $1,000 to $5 million, $25 million.
Omar has repeatedly said she is not a millionaire. In April she amended the disclosures, cutting combined reported assets to between $18,004 and $95,000 and listing the two businesses as having no net value after liabilities. Her office said the original filings failed to properly account for those liabilities and 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, along with student-loan and credit-card debt tied to her husband.
House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer, R-Ky., had already requested documents and communications related to the finances of both companies in February, extending the paper trail well before this week’s search.
Readers tracking the same sequence can see how the U.S. attorney’s financial-disclosure probe followed the home search by a single day.
The Monday search was not a knock-and-talk. HSI agents carried a warrant signed by a federal judge and, according to additional reporting, removed boxes of evidence from Omar’s D.C. bungalow.
The New York Post reported that Pirro described multiple federal tracks, potential civil or criminal immigration violations as well as scrutiny of the claim that Omar was worth up to $30 million, while the Minnesota U.S. Attorney’s Office leads a separate immigration-fraud inquiry that sources say could involve false statements about her birth date and possible denaturalization exposure. Pirro’s D.C. office is handling the finances side involving Omar and Mynett. Grand jury subpoenas have gone to family members, including Omar’s sister Sahra Noor.
Pirro underscored the legal threshold for the home entry itself.
On the warrant, she said:
"They got a warrant signed by a federal judge. There’s no question that that judge would not have signed that warrant unless there was probable cause."
She also stated there are several investigations related to the Minnesota Democrat, covering potential immigration violations and the net-worth claim that once reached as high as $30 million on the House forms.
Earlier coverage of the same raid laid out how HSI agents searched Omar’s D.C. home inside that criminal immigration investigation.
In September the Office of Congressional Conduct voted 5-1 to recommend that the House Ethics Committee dismiss misconduct allegations tied to 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.
That congressional watchdog review sits apart from the federal work Pirro described Tuesday. A dismissal recommendation on the House side does not bind Justice Department prosecutors, and it does not erase the amended filings, the earlier valuation spike, or Comer’s document request.
Omar has denied wrongdoing and has accused the Trump administration of targeting her for political reasons. She remains a frequent focus of criticism from the president and congressional Republicans. The facts now in public view are the warrant, the boxes, the disclosure ranges, the April amendment, and the open federal inquiries, not a closed political argument.
Border Czar Tom Homan has separately indicated the broader criminal probe has been underway for some time, a point examined when Homan addressed the investigation after the search.
As it stands, the Minnesota U.S. Attorney’s Office is described as leading the immigration-fraud questions, including the birth-date issue raised by sources. Pirro’s D.C. office is examining the financial disclosures and the businesses linked to Mynett. The Monday search, confirmed by the Justice Department as part of an ongoing criminal investigation, produced physical evidence under a judge’s signature.
No charges, arrest tallies, or charging statutes tied to Omar appear in the current reporting. The connection between the home search and the disclosure probe is still not established in public statements. What is established is the sequence: agents at the D.C. residence on Monday, Pirro on camera Tuesday describing an active examination of the filings that once advertised a multimillion-dollar leap and then walked it back.
Omar’s earlier public posture, denying federal contact even as officials confirmed investigative steps, sits alongside those same facts, a contrast noted when Omar denied contact as Homan confirmed the criminal investigation.
Taxpayers and voters are left with a simple ledger. House forms first showed a dramatic rise in reported business value, then an amendment that wiped the net value to zero after liabilities. A House oversight chairman sought the company records. Ethics staff recommended dismissal. Federal agents still obtained a warrant, removed evidence, and the D.C. U.S. attorney now says the disclosure numbers themselves are under investigation. Paperwork disputes belong in public view; so do the warrants that follow them.
When disclosure ranges swing by tens of millions and then collapse under amendment, prosecutors are right to open the file and keep it open until the numbers and the immigration file both add up.
