Pirro Says Her Office Is Investigating Ilhan Omar's Financial Disclosures, a Day After Agents Searched Her Home

One day after Homeland Security Investigations agents searched Rep. Ilhan Omar's Washington home, a second federal inquiry into the Minnesota Democrat surfaced. U.S. Attorney for D.C. Jeanine Pirro said on Fox News' "America Reports" today, Oct. 13, that her office is looking at Omar's financial disclosures.

Pirro was asked about an earlier congressional review of the filings. "That doesn't matter what the House does. It doesn't matter, you know, what this agency or that does. We're looking at the facts. Based upon the facts, we'll follow them wherever they take us," she said.

No charges have been announced. Pirro did not describe what specific conduct her office is examining.

The disclosure numbers at issue

Omar's original annual disclosure, filed May 14, 2025 and covering 2024, reported household assets of between $6 million and $30 million. Most of that came from two businesses tied to her husband, Tim Mynett.

The filing valued his stake in a California winery, eStCru LLC, at $1 million to $5 million, up from $15,000 to $50,000 the year before. It valued Rose Lake Capital LLC, a Washington venture capital firm, at $5 million to $25 million, up from between $1 and $1,000.

House disclosure forms report assets in broad ranges, not exact figures.

Omar later amended the filing to report assets of $18,004 to $95,000, according to The Wall Street Journal. Her team attributed the earlier valuations to accounting errors.

House Oversight Chairman James Comer, R-Ky., requested financial records from two Mynett-linked companies in February.

A congressional watchdog went the other way

The Journal also reported that the Office of Congressional Conduct, the nonpartisan House watchdog, recommended in September that the House Ethics Committee dismiss allegations that Omar submitted false or incomplete financial information. The Journal said the findings were marked confidential.

That recommendation concerned congressional misconduct rules. Pirro's office is running its own inquiry, and her remarks suggest it does not consider itself bound by the House's conclusions.

The search and the politics

The Justice Department has said HSI agents executed a "judicially authorized search warrant" Monday as part of an "ongoing federal criminal investigation." It has not described the subject matter.

Two sources told Fox News Digital the probe concerns immigration paperwork her late father filed when she was a child. The Washington Post reported that agents seized boxes of material in an investigation into possible immigration fraud, including whether she falsified paperwork to enter the country. Omar, who arrived from Somalia as a child refugee and became a citizen in 2000, denies wrongdoing.

NPR, citing sources familiar with the case who were not authorized to speak publicly, reported that senior DOJ leadership, including Acting Deputy Attorney General Trent McCotter, was consulted and approved the search. One current official told NPR the matter is a multiyear probe that includes whistleblower complaints.

It is not clear whether the search is connected to the financial disclosure inquiry. The Justice Department has not said.

What the principals are saying

Omar called the search "an attempt to target political enemies and weaponize federal law enforcement" and said, "I will not be silenced." Spokesperson Jackie Rogers called it an "outrageous abuse of power." Another spokesperson told CNN that Omar "has done nothing wrong."

House Democratic leaders Hakeem Jeffries, Katherine Clark and Pete Aguilar said the search "raises serious questions about the continued corrupt weaponization of the federal government against Donald Trump's adversaries."

President Trump said Monday the search "has nothing to do with me," while calling Omar "a totally crooked person."

Vice President JD Vance said Tuesday he had no advance notice of the search. "We try to let the law follow the facts rather than creating facts just to prosecute people we don't like," he said. He added that "there are some serious allegations against Ilhan Omar" and that if there is a real case, "we're gonna follow the facts."

Omar's campaign has already turned the episode into a fundraising pitch. An email obtained by NewsNation said "Donald Trump and DHS have opened a baseless, partisan investigation" and asked supporters to "chip in whatever you can."

The election clock

The timing is the sharpest friction point. The Justice Department has an internal practice of avoiding public steps in probes of candidates within 60 days of an election. NPR noted the rule is not legally binding and that DOJ has applied it inconsistently.

CNN reported that more than 127,000 Minnesotans had already voted, per the secretary of state's data, when the search happened.

Omar is on the ballot for reelection next month in Minnesota's 5th District. Pirro has not said when her office expects to finish its review, and the Justice Department has not said whether the search could lead to charges before voters finish casting ballots.

The House Ethics Committee has not publicly acted on the watchdog's September recommendation.