President Donald Trump announced on Monday that the Department of Justice is investigating Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN).
The investigation comes after widespread fraud was reported in several Minnesota health services programs, with most of the defendants being of Somali descent. Trump has sought to tie Omar to the scandal, referring to her as “garbage,” and said Somalis should “go back to where they came from.”
“Additionally, the DOJ and Congress are looking at ‘Congresswoman’ Illhan Omar, who left Somalia with NOTHING, and is now reportedly worth more than 44 Million Dollars,” Trump wrote on Truth Social.
Omar responded to Trump’s comments in a post on X later Monday morning, writing, “Sorry, Trump, your support is collapsing and you’re panicking.”
She continued, “Right on cue, you’re deflecting from your failures with lies and conspiracy theories about me. Years of ‘investigations’ have found nothing. Get your goons out of Minnesota.”
The Justice Department investigation comes after the House Oversight Committee launched an inquiry into Omar’s net worth, which has reportedly increased by 3,500%, Fox News reported.
House Oversight Chairman James Comer (R-KY) told Fox News’s Jesse Watters that Omar won’t answer any questions, saying the business with the net worth gain is in her husband’s name. The chairman pledged to investigate her husband, but has not levied any specific allegations.
In her 2024 financial disclosures, Omar valued Rose Lake Capital LLC, a business firm co-founded by her husband, between $5 million and $25 million, a significant increase from the $1 to $1,000 reported in 2023.
Her husband, Tim Mynett, has a second business that has also increased in net worth — a California-based winery with its assets between $1,000,000 and $5,000,000 in the last disclosure. The winery was worth between $15,000 and $50,000 in the previous year’s financial disclosure.
Questions over Omar’s net worth have swirled over the last year, with Omar denying any wrongdoing.
“Since getting elected, there has been a coordinated right-wing disinformation campaign claiming all sorts of wild things, including the ridiculous claim I am worth millions of dollars, which is categorically false,” Omar told Business Insider last year.
The Oversight Committee tabled a motion from Rep. Nancy Mace (R-SC) earlier this month to subpoena Omar to release her immigration records.
“America would be a better place if @IlhanMN were deported back to Somalia,” Rep. Brandon Gill (R-TX) wrote on X last year.
Omar came to the United States as a refugee before becoming a naturalized citizen in 2000, at the age of 17.
“Born in Somalia, Rep. Omar and her family fled the country’s civil war when she was eight,” her website says. “The family spent four years in a refugee camp in Kenya before coming to the United States in the 1990s. In 1997, she moved to Minneapolis with her family.”
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Trump also announced that he is sending border czar Tom Homan to Minnesota after Alex Pretti, a 37-year-old intensive care nurse, was shot and killed during an altercation with Border Patrol in Minnesota after stepping between an agent and another individual.
Immigration enforcement operations were surged by the Trump administration in Minnesota following the discovery of billions of dollars of fraud within state assistance programs. Pretti’s death comes after the fatal shooting of Minnesota resident Renee Good by an ICE officer earlier this month.