Feds Reportedly Hold DNA Evidence in Ilhan Omar Probe as Trump Says She ‘Could Go to Jail’

The federal criminal investigation into Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., is intensifying, with prosecutors reportedly holding DNA evidence and President Trump saying the congresswoman “could go to jail.”

Federal prosecutors plan to use DNA evidence to try to prove Omar committed immigration fraud, the New York Post reported Monday, citing people familiar with the years-long probe.

One source told the Post the DNA is central to proving a long-circulating allegation that Omar married her brother in 2009 to help him obtain a green card. Omar has repeatedly denied the allegation since 2016.

The Post said it was unclear whether the DNA was collected before or after federal agents searched Omar’s Washington home on Oct. 12. No charges have been filed.

The Washington Post has reported that Omar’s ex-husband, Ahmed Nur Said Elmi, applied for and then withdrew a marriage-based green card in 2019 after immigration officials asked for more evidence, the New York Post noted.

A former immigration official also told the Washington Post that the sibling-marriage allegation was examined during Trump’s first term but yielded insufficient evidence, according to the New York Post.

Homeland Security Investigations agents carried out that court-approved search and seized Omar’s phone, the Associated Press reported. Investigators have also issued more than a dozen grand jury subpoenas, including to relatives.

The probe centers on whether Omar or her father misstated her birth year on immigration paperwork, Fox News reported. The question is whether she was a minor when her father naturalized in 2000.

If she was 17, she would have automatically qualified for citizenship through him. If she was already 18, she would have needed to apply on her own.

Speaking in the Oval Office on Tuesday, Trump said Omar could face more than deportation. “She could also go to jail,” he said, adding that it was “just my opinion,” according to Fox News.

Trump did not cite a specific charge or new evidence. He called Omar “a disgrace to our country” but said, “I hope they treat her fairly.”

Border czar Tom Homan said Saturday that Omar could be denaturalized if investigators prove fraud. “I’ve been told they have a strong case,” Homan said, Fox News reported.

Omar’s finances are also under scrutiny. D.C. U.S. Attorney Jeanine Pirro has said her office is examining the congresswoman’s financial disclosures, the BBC reported.

“That judge would not have signed that warrant unless there was probable cause,” Pirro told Fox News, according to the New York Post.

House Oversight Chairman James Comer said over the weekend that a California winery co-owned by Omar’s husband, Tim Mynett, shut down amid fraud claims, Fox News reported. Comer alleged it sold empty barrels to investors.

Lawyers for Mynett and his business partner have said any suggestion they deliberately defrauded investors “would be false and defamatory.”

Omar has denied wrongdoing and called the probe political persecution. Her attorneys have demanded the return of seized property, alleging the search was improper so close to an election, the AP reported.

A Justice Department spokesperson said the lawyers’ letter was “riddled with false allegations and inaccuracies,” the Post reported.

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