At about 6 a.m. Monday, Homeland Security Investigations agents arrived at Rep. Ilhan Omar's Washington, D.C. home with a court-approved search warrant and started carrying out boxes. By Tuesday, word had broken that a federal grand jury had subpoenaed her sister, Sahra Noor, and at least one other relative.
Omar responded by calling the Vice President of the United States "delusional."
Vance had been about as measured as a politician gets. "I do know that there are some serious allegations against Ilhan Omar," he told reporters. "We're going to look into those. And again, if there's a real case there, we're going to follow the facts. If there's not a real case there, then we won't."
Omar's reply: "That is not something that is happening. That man is delusional."
It's happening. Grand jury subpoenas arrive on paper, issued under a federal court's authority, and one of them has Sahra Noor's name on it.
Omar is now under two federal investigations at once. In the first, Homeland Security Investigations, the U.S. Attorney's office in Minneapolis, and the Justice Department are examining whether her late father, Nur Omar Mohamed, lied on the immigration forms he filed before becoming a citizen. Omar's own citizenship rests on those forms.
The family has always said he was an educator who fled Somalia's civil war. An Oxford historian who studies Somalia, Mohamed Haji Ingiriis, says he was "a full colonel in Siad Barre's military regime" who "misrepresented himself as a refugee."
The second investigation belongs to Jeanine Pirro, the U.S. Attorney for Washington, D.C., whose office is examining Omar's financial disclosures. In 2023, Omar reported household assets of as little as $15,000. A year later, her filing valued her husband Tim Mynett's businesses at up to $30 million.
House Oversight Chairman James Comer then started asking whether "unknown individuals" were investing to buy influence with her. Omar amended the filing to show those businesses as worthless and called the original an "error." Her husband's winery filed for termination nine days later.
President Trump suggested on Truth Social that her accountant may have reported money "stolen from her fraudulent activities in Minnesota."
Grand jury subpoenas are how prosecutors lock down sworn testimony and documents from people they believe know something. Noor runs a Minneapolis consulting firm that says it has secured "more than $20 million in funding for health initiatives," including work on projects backed by the CDC and USAID. She didn't respond to requests for comment.
The timing shows how seriously prosecutors take this. With the midterms 22 days away, the Justice Department usually avoids visible steps involving a candidate. It makes exceptions when prosecutors fear evidence could disappear, and this week they searched a congresswoman's home and subpoenaed her family.
Omar called the search "the latest escalation in his campaign of political intimidation" and accused the Trump administration of weaponizing federal law enforcement against its enemies.
This is a congresswoman who voted twice to impeach Donald Trump. Federal power aimed at her political opponents never troubled her. It started to trouble her when the warrant had her address on it.
The question of whether Omar married her own brother has followed her since 2016. Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin now says publicly that her ex-husband, Ahmed Nur Said Elmi, is her brother. Mullin has also said lying on an immigration application has "no expiration."
So far this week there have been two federal investigations, a search warrant, boxes of seized documents, and a grand jury subpoena served on her sister. Omar's defense is that the Vice President is imagining things.
Sahra Noor has a subpoena that says otherwise.