{"id":237304,"date":"2026-05-19T21:53:23","date_gmt":"2026-05-19T21:53:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/237304\/"},"modified":"2026-05-19T21:53:23","modified_gmt":"2026-05-19T21:53:23","slug":"vance-says-rep-ilhan-omar-is-under-doj-investigation-right-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/237304\/","title":{"rendered":"Vance says Rep. Ilhan Omar is under DOJ investigation ‘right now’"},"content":{"rendered":"

WASHINGTON \u2014 The Justice Department is investigating\u00a0Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.)<\/a>\u00a0for possible immigration fraud,\u00a0Vice President JD Vance revealed Tuesday.<\/p>\n

Omar has faced repeated questions over the years about her immigration status \u2014 as well as her family finances and\u00a0potential ties to a COVID-era fraud scheme in Minnesota.<\/a><\/p>\n

\u201cI don\u2019t want to prejudge an investigation,\u201d Vance told reporters at the White House. \u201cIt certainly seems like something fishy is there, but everybody\u2019s entitled to equal justice under the laws.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"ViceVice President JD Vance revealed at a White House press briefing on Tuesday that Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) is under federal investigation. Getty Images<\/p>\n

\u201cSo we\u2019re going to investigate it. We\u2019re going to take a look at it. If we think that there\u2019s a crime, we\u2019re going to prosecute that crime, and that\u2019s something the Department of Justice is looking at right now,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n

Vance, who is in charge of the administration\u2019s efforts to combat\u00a0benefit\u00a0fraud, said\u00a0earlier this year that\u00a0Omar \u201cdefinitely committed immigration fraud<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n

Omar\u2019s chief of staff, Connor McNutt, called the claim \u201ca ridiculous lie,\u201d though the allegations have dogged the congresswoman since her first campaign for the US House in 2018.<\/p>\n

The Minnesota Democrat has married three times, but her second husband, a UK citizen named Ahmed Nur Said Elmi, has been identified in several reports\u00a0over the past decade<\/a>\u00a0as\u00a0a possible sibling<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Elmi and Omar, a Muslim, were wedded in February 2009 as part of a Christian ceremony in Eden Prairie, Minn., according to a Hennepin County marriage certificate previously obtained by The Post. The couple divorced in December 2017.<\/p>\n

The congresswoman has rarely spoken of the relationship, except to note that it was brief and claim the two were frequently separated except for a two-year stretch between 2009 and 2011. <\/p>\n

There\u2019s no record of the couple having children.<\/p>\n

\"NewThe Post\u2019s cover on allegations that Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) was aware of a fraud scam in Minnesota.<\/p>\n

Omar was previously wedded to\u00a0Ahmed Abdisalan Hirsi\u00a0in an Islamic ceremony in 2002, though the pair weren\u2019t legally married until January 2018 \u2014 despite having three kids together over that time period.<\/p>\n

The third child was depicted in an Instagram photo being held by Elmi with a caption referring to \u201cnieces,\u201d according to the Minneapolis Star Tribune, but the picture was later deleted.<\/p>\n

Accusations that Omar and Elmi were brother and sister initially surfaced on a Somali politics discussion board called SomaliSpot \u2014 but were also deleted, City Journal previously reported.<\/p>\n

Follow The Post\u2019s live coverage of President Trump and national politics for the latest news and analysis<\/a><\/p>\n

Minneapolis-based Somali blogger and community leader Abdihakim Osman later told the Daily Mail in 2020 he knew Omar and Elmi when he was growing up in Minnesota.<\/p>\n

Osman claimed the future US congressswoman had introduced Elmi as her brother from London to Somali community members back in the late 2000s.<\/p>\n

At the time, she noted her sibling was looking for \u201cpapers,\u201d referencing immigration documents such as a green card.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"WASHINGTON \u2014 The Justice Department is investigating\u00a0Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.)\u00a0for possible immigration fraud,\u00a0Vice President JD Vance revealed Tuesday.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":237305,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[383,396,12540,11749,5800,9,11,10,87,58],"class_list":["post-237304","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-department-of-justice","tag-fraud","tag-ilhan-omar","tag-jd-vance","tag-minnesota","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-headlines","tag-new-york-news","tag-politics","tag-us-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237304","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=237304"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237304\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/237305"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=237304"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=237304"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=237304"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}