D.C. U.S. Attorney Jeanine Pirro said her office is investigating Rep. Ilhan Omar’s financial disclosures one day after Homeland Security agents searched the congresswoman’s Washington home.
Fox News reported that Pirro made the comments Tuesday on the network’s “America Reports,” joining host John Roberts to discuss the Minnesota Democrat’s filings.
The statement came after agents searched Omar’s Washington, D.C., residence Monday under a judicially authorized warrant. The Justice Department confirmed Homeland Security Investigations carried out that search as part of an ongoing federal criminal investigation.
Two sources familiar with the probe told Fox News Digital the Monday search involved her immigration paperwork. The network noted it remains unclear whether that warrant ties to the financial-disclosure review Pirro described.
Congressional financial disclosures list assets in broad ranges, not exact dollars. Filings tied to Omar’s husband, Tim Mynett, showed a sharp swing between 2023 and 2024.
Businesses linked to Mynett went from a combined reported value as high as about $51,000 in 2023 to as high as $30 million in 2024. California-based winery eStCru LLC moved from a range of $15,000 to $50,000 up to $1 million to $5 million. Washington, D.C.-based venture firm Rose Lake Capital LLC moved from $1 to $1,000 up to $5 million to $25 million.
Combined upper ranges ran roughly $15,000, $51,000 in 2023 versus $6 million, $30 million in 2024. Omar has repeatedly maintained she is not a millionaire.
In April she amended the disclosures. The revised combined reported assets fell to between $18,004 and $95,000. The filing listed the two businesses as having no net value after liabilities. Her office said the original paperwork had failed to properly account for liabilities tied to her husband’s businesses 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. That filing also reported student loan and credit card debt associated with her husband.
In February, House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer, R-Ky., requested financial records, documents, and communications related to eStCru LLC and Rose Lake Capital LLC. Those companies are tied to Mynett.
Separately, in September, the Office of Congressional Conduct voted 5-1 to recommend that the House Ethics Committee dismiss misconduct allegations stemming from the financial disclosures. That office found no substantial reason to believe Omar had reported false or incomplete information in violation of federal law or House rules. That recommendation is separate from the federal investigation Pirro described.
Omar has denied wrongdoing. She has accused the Trump administration of targeting her for political reasons. Coverage notes she has long drawn criticism from President Donald Trump and congressional Republicans.
Pirro, as U.S. attorney for the District of Columbia, framed her office’s work as an examination of the disclosures. No charges, arrests, or case numbers tied to Omar appear in the reporting on either the financial review or the Monday search. No injuries or property damage were described.
The Monday warrant rested on a judge’s authorization and an ongoing criminal probe. Sources pointed to immigration paperwork. Pirro’s Tuesday remarks focused on the financial filings. Officials have not publicly spelled out a single charging theory that merges both tracks.
Members of Congress must file periodic financial disclosures so the public can see potential conflicts. Large year-to-year swings, followed by amendments that erase most of the reported value, invite hard questions about accuracy and timing. An internal House process can close its own ethics file and still leave federal prosecutors free to look at the same paperwork.
Taxpayers expect clean forms from the people who create the laws. When valuations rocket into the tens of millions and then collapse after scrutiny, the public is right to demand a full accounting, and to watch whether investigators follow the records wherever they lead.
