U.S. Attorney Jeanine Pirro said her office is investigating Rep. Ilhan Omar's financial disclosures, opening a new front in the scrutiny of the Minnesota Democrat's reported assets just one day after federal agents searched her Washington, D.C., home.
Pirro said in a television interview Tuesday that her office was examining the filings, which previously showed the reported value of businesses tied to Omar's husband, Tim Mynett, surging from as much as $51,000 in 2023 to as much as $30 million in 2024. The disclosure forms report assets in broad ranges rather than exact figures, so they did not establish the couple's precise net worth.
The search of Omar's residence was carried out Monday by Homeland Security Investigations agents under a judicially authorized warrant as part of an ongoing federal criminal investigation involving her immigration paperwork, according to the Justice Department. Two people familiar with the probe said the search was connected to that immigration matter. It remains unclear whether the search is connected to the financial disclosure investigation Pirro described.
The financial filings at issue drew scrutiny from congressional Republicans earlier this year. House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer, R-Ky., requested financial records from two companies tied to Mynett in February. The original filings showed millions of dollars in newly reported assets associated with a California-based winery, eStCru LLC, and a Washington, D.C.-based venture capital firm, Rose Lake Capital LLC.
The winery's reported valuation jumped from between $15,000 and $50,000 in 2023 to between $1 million and $5 million in 2024. Rose Lake Capital showed an even sharper increase, rising from between $1 and $1,000 in 2023 to between $5 million and $25 million the following year. Combined, the businesses had reported values ranging from roughly $15,000 to $51,000 in 2023, compared with between $6 million and $30 million in 2024.
Omar amended her financial disclosures in April, reducing the couple's combined reported assets to between $18,004 and $95,000. The revised filing listed her husband's two businesses as having no net value after accounting for liabilities. Her office said at the time that the original disclosures had failed to properly account for liabilities associated with Mynett's businesses, creating what it described as a misleading picture of the couple's finances. The congresswoman has repeatedly maintained that she is not a millionaire.
In September, the Office of Congressional Conduct voted 5-1 to recommend that the House Ethics Committee dismiss misconduct allegations stemming from the financial disclosures. The watchdog found there was not substantial reason to believe Omar had reported false or incomplete information in violation of federal law or House rules. Omar's office characterized the findings as vindication. That review is separate from the federal investigation Pirro described.
Omar's latest annual financial disclosure, filed in May, listed assets totaling between approximately $20,000 and $125,000, according to a Minnesota Star Tribune analysis. The filing also reported student loan and credit card debt associated with her husband.
The Somali-born congresswoman has denied allegations of wrongdoing and accused the Trump administration of targeting her for political reasons, especially after Monday's raid of her Washington residence. She has been a frequent target of criticism from President Donald Trump and congressional Republicans.