Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin says his agency has presented a large case to Justice Department prosecutors in the federal probe of Rep. Ilhan Omar, even as she remains uncharged and heads toward Election Day.
Mullin made clear that Homeland Security Investigations did extensive work before the matter reached prosecutors. Omar, the Minnesota Democrat, has not been charged. She has denied wrongdoing and called the inquiry politically motivated.
Federal agents searched the congresswoman’s Washington residence and, the same day, served a second warrant at the home of her sister, Sahra Noor, removing boxes of documents. A Minnesota grand jury is weighing evidence. Subpoenas have gone to more than a dozen recipients, including relatives.
U.S. Attorney Jeanine Pirro said this month that several investigations involving Omar are underway, and her office has opened a separate review of the congresswoman’s financial disclosures. Attorney General Todd Blanche signed off on the warrant and attested that its timing was not meant to influence any election.
Mullin said the department has put forward “a large case that we have presented to the DOJ.” He pushed back hard against accusations that the probe is a partisan stunt.
"We’re not weaponizing, we’re not using political theater on this,"
Mullin said enforcement does not turn on office or party, and that anyone who broke the law is treated the same. Earlier this month he noted investigators expected to bring the matter before a grand jury and added, “We had a judge sign it.”
Prosecutors told a court this week that the inquiry reaches beyond the congresswoman. In a filing opposing release of records, they wrote that the investigation of “the Subject and other individuals continues.” They did not name those other people or describe their roles.
The grand jury sits in Minnesota, not Washington. That keeps the evidence review closer to Omar’s home district while the document seizures hit both her D.C. residence and her sister’s home on the same day.
More than 170 House Democrats urged the Justice Department on Monday to drop the inquiry. They cited a 2019 review by the first Trump administration that, they said, found insufficient evidence of wrongdoing.
Former President Barack Obama weighed in on X on Oct. 18, arguing against selective targeting.
"The government can’t selectively target individuals simply because of their political beliefs."
Omar is on the ballot Tuesday. She has also rejected the long-running allegation that she married her brother, a claim that has never been established.
Allies have long pushed back on those brother-marriage claims whenever they resurface in public debate.
Pirro put the broader picture in plain terms this month.
"There are several investigations going on"
Her office’s separate look at Omar’s financial disclosures sits alongside the larger DHS-to-DOJ case and the Minnesota grand jury work.
Agents did not stop at one address. The second warrant at Sahra Noor’s home produced boxes of documents removed the same day as the search of the congresswoman’s Washington residence. Relatives are among the more than a dozen people who received grand jury subpoenas.
Public reporting has tracked an active federal criminal investigation into the congresswoman for some time, and the latest steps show that work has not gone quiet.
Blanche’s sign-off and his attestation on timing sit in the same court record that keeps the investigation open past Omar alone. Prosecutors are still opposing release of records while the grand jury continues.
Earlier coverage has examined a 2016 federal probe tied to marriage questions that have followed Omar for years, even as she continues to deny wrongdoing in the current matter.
Mullin’s public stance is that Homeland Security Investigations built the file first, then handed prosecutors what he calls a large case. Omar remains free of charges. Democrats want the Justice Department to end the inquiry before voters finish their work.
Statements from DHS leadership have previously addressed findings tied to Omar’s marriage history in related investigative talk, while the present case moves through warrants, subpoenas, and grand jury process in Minnesota.
Obama-era reporting has also been cited in past reviews of marriage fraud claims surrounding the congresswoman, claims she has consistently rejected as unproven.
The sequence is straightforward on the record now available: extensive HSI work, a case presented to DOJ, judicial approval of a warrant, document seizures at two homes, subpoenas to relatives and others, a Minnesota grand jury still sitting, and a separate financial-disclosure review. Omar has not been charged. More than 170 House Democrats want the whole inquiry dropped.
Voters can watch whether prosecutors treat the file as law enforcement or as leverage. Equal application of the rules is the test that matters.
