One day after federal agents searched Rep. Ilhan Omar’s Washington home, a second investigation has now moved into public view.
U.S. Attorney Jeanine Pirro confirmed Tuesday that her office is investigating Omar’s congressional financial disclosures.
That means Omar is now facing scrutiny on two separate fronts: the immigration-related criminal investigation behind Monday’s search warrant, and a financial-disclosure probe being handled by Pirro’s office.
Those cases are not known to be connected.
PROBE LAUNCHED: U.S. Attorney Jeanine Pirro says her office is investigating Rep. Ilhan Omar’s financial disclosures after the congresswoman’s reported assets tied to her husband’s businesses surged from as little as $15,000 to as much as $30 million in a single year.
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Axios reported that Pirro was asked on Fox News about a congressional ethics review involving Omar’s filings. Pirro replied that the matter “is subject of an investigation as well” and confirmed that her office is handling it.
“It doesn’t matter what the House does,” Pirro said. “It doesn’t matter, you know, what this agency or that does.”
“We’re looking at the facts,” she continued. “Based upon the facts, we’ll follow them wherever they take us.”
Axios also noted that Omar’s office pointed to the earlier congressional review as evidence that the allegations had already been examined. The outlet reported that Pirro’s office did not provide additional details about the federal inquiry after her television appearance.
The financial questions center on businesses connected to Omar’s husband, Tim Mynett.
Members of Congress report asset values in broad ranges rather than exact dollar amounts. The filing therefore cannot establish Omar’s wealth down to the dollar; the size of the year-over-year change still drew immediate scrutiny.
Omar’s original 2024 disclosure listed eStCru LLC, described as a California winery, at between $1 million and $5 million. It listed Rose Lake Capital LLC, a Washington venture-capital firm, at between $5 million and $25 million.
The House disclosure filed in May 2025 shows those ranges directly. Together, the two businesses accounted for a reported value between $6 million and $30 million.
The same filing described eStCru as a winery in Santa Rosa, California, and Rose Lake Capital as a venture-capital management firm in Washington, D.C. It attributed both holdings to Omar’s spouse and reported partnership income of between $5,001 and $15,000 from the winery, while listing no income from Rose Lake Capital.
The document also listed a congressional credit-union savings account, retirement funds, student-loan debt and a credit-card liability. Those entries help explain why a disclosure range cannot simply be read as cash in the bank.
Even so, the two business valuations represented a dramatic change from the much lower ranges reported the year before. That jump triggered calls for investigators to examine the records behind the numbers.
Omar later amended the filing and said the original numbers resulted from an accounting error that counted business assets without subtracting liabilities. Her office said the corrected form placed the couple’s combined assets between $18,004 and $95,000.
A congressional watchdog reached a result favorable to Omar last month.
CBS Minnesota reported that the Office of Congressional Conduct voted 5-1 to recommend dismissing allegations that Omar filed false or incomplete information. Omar’s office called that vote proof that she had done nothing wrong.
The station reported that Omar amended the disclosure in April after the original filing prompted Republican demands for investigations. Her office said the high valuations reflected gross business assets without the associated liabilities and insisted that Omar was not a multimillionaire.
The congressional watchdog’s recommendation addressed whether there was substantial reason to believe Omar violated federal law or House rules through false or incomplete reporting. That is an important part of the record, and Pirro was asked about it directly.
Pirro’s answer was equally important: the congressional outcome does not end the inquiry being handled by federal prosecutors.
That is the new turn here.
It arrived less than 36 hours after Homeland Security Investigations agents executed a judicially authorized warrant at Omar’s home.
I’m ok. Make no mistake: this is an attempt to target political enemies and weaponize federal law enforcement.
For ten years, Trump has targeted me with baseless lies and smear campaigns. This is just the latest escalation in his campaign of political intimidation. I will not be silenced.
— Ilhan Omar (@IlhanMN) October 12, 2026
The Associated Press reported that HSI agents removed boxes marked as seized evidence from Omar’s Washington residence. The Justice Department said the warrant was connected to an ongoing federal criminal investigation but did not release the affidavit or identify the evidence agents sought.
Reporting from Axios and AP tied that investigation to questions about immigration paperwork. Omar has denied allegations of immigration fraud and has not been charged with a crime.
The AP said the search took place roughly three weeks before the midterm elections, when Omar is seeking another term in Minnesota’s 5th Congressional District. Democratic leaders questioned the timing and pointed to the Justice Department’s traditional caution about overt investigative steps involving candidates close to an election.
President Trump told reporters that he had nothing to do with the search and said the investigation was up to the Justice Department. Homeland Security Investigations carried out the operation under the warrant approved by a judge.
Her office called the raid an abuse of power and accused President Trump of using federal law enforcement against a political opponent.
Deep State tool/MS NOW correspondent Ken Dilanian sure doesn’t seem happy about the feds searching a home belonging to Ilhan Omar, dismissing any possibility she’s committed a crime as a “long-standing controversy…simmering in right-wing media and conservative circles for… pic.twitter.com/pudbWw560V
— Curtis Houck (@CurtisHouck) October 12, 2026
There are still major unanswered questions.
Pirro did not disclose what evidence prompted her office’s financial inquiry, when it began, or whether prosecutors are examining the original disclosure, the amended filing, the underlying business records, or all three.
And no public evidence currently shows that the financial probe is connected to the immigration investigation that produced Monday’s raid.
But the legal and political pressure around Omar just increased again.
A congressional review may have recommended closing its own case. Pirro’s message was that federal prosecutors are conducting their own examination and will follow the facts wherever they lead.
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