{"id":80640,"date":"2026-10-29T10:54:53","date_gmt":"2026-10-29T15:54:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/10\/29\/obama-admin-first-launched-the-investigation-into-ilhan-omars-alleged-brother-marriage\/"},"modified":"2026-10-29T10:54:53","modified_gmt":"2026-10-29T15:54:53","slug":"obama-admin-first-launched-the-investigation-into-ilhan-omars-alleged-brother-marriage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/10\/29\/obama-admin-first-launched-the-investigation-into-ilhan-omars-alleged-brother-marriage\/","title":{"rendered":"Obama admin first launched the investigation into Ilhan Omar’s alleged brother marriage"},"content":{"rendered":"

The investigation into whether Rep. Ilhan Omar<\/a>, D-Minn., married her brother in an alleged immigration fraud scheme in 2009 began under former President Barack Obama in 2016, Fox News Digital has confirmed.<\/p>\n

A U.S. Attorney in Minnesota, appointed by then-President Joe Biden, eventually shut down the probe in 2021, a source familiar with the matter told Fox News Digital.<\/p>\n

Now, the issue has been thrust back into the spotlight as part of a new federal investigation into the Somali-born congresswoman, part of which centers on whether she or her father committed immigration fraud on her application to become a U.S. citizen.<\/p>\n

REP ILHAN OMAR’S IMMIGRATION HISTORY FACES NEW SCRUTINY AS FEDERAL INVESTIGATORS SUBPOENA RELATIVES<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

Sources previously told Fox News Digital that Omar’s “real name” is Ilhan Nur Said Elmi. In a federal court document, she was called “Ilhan Omar Nur Said Elmi, a\/k\/a Ilhan Omar.”<\/p>\n

In 2009, Omar, then a U.S. citizen, legally married a man with that surname, Ahmed Nur Said Elmi. The pair officially split in 2017.<\/p>\n

The New York Times first reported that Obama’s FBI<\/a> and Department of Homeland Security (DHS) began the probe in the summer of 2016, and that officials “found some evidence that [the marriage] was fraudulent.” The Times reported that the investigation concluded when officials decided the potential felony crime was past the statute of limitations.<\/p>\n

OMAR\u2019S DELETED TWEET COULD GIVE CLUE ON ALLEGED MARRIAGE TO HER BROTHER<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

Despite his own administration’s investigation into Omar at the time she was running for the Minnesota House, Obama condemned the renewed probe, which included a Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) raid on her Washington, D.C. home on Oct. 12. Federal authorities confiscated her passport, personal phone and computer in the raid.<\/p>\n

“It is a basic principle of American democracy that the government can\u2019t selectively target individuals simply because of their political beliefs or what they say,” Obama wrote in an X post after the raid earlier this month. “But that\u2019s exactly what the Trump Administration<\/a> is doing to Congresswoman Ilhan Omar of Minnesota.”<\/p>\n

OBAMA’S LENGTHY REACTION TO OMAR INVESTIGATION TRIGGERS INSTANT BACKLASH: ‘SPARE ME’<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

Obama claimed the Trump administration was targeting Omar because she is a vocal critic of the current president.<\/p>\n

“Think about that,” Obama said in the post. “The full weight of the federal government is being brought down on a law-abiding elected official because she has dared to criticize the president.”<\/p>\n

175 DEMOCRATS DEMAND TRUMP ADMIN STOP ILHAN OMAR INVESTIGATION, WARN IT COULD HURT HER RE-ELECTION BID<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

Omar has frequently called the allegations that she married her brother a conspiracy theory promulgated by the political right, including in a statement to Fox News Digital regarding the new investigation last week.<\/p>\n

“Rep. Omar has repeatedly and unequivocally denied this baseless, disgusting conspiracy theory,” an Omar spokesperson said. “This is a desperate political smear designed to distract from Trump\u2019s failed presidency and two years of Republican failure in Congress. And it\u2019s disgraceful that the media continues to give this lie oxygen.”<\/p>\n

The same spokesperson this morning doubled down on the claim that the current investigation is a “political vendetta against one of Trump’s most visible critics,” and said that the 2016 investigation was “rejected for a lack of evidence,” contrary to the New York Times report that it was closed due to the statute of limitations.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Fox News Digital’s Andrew Mark Miller contributed to this report.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The investigation into whether Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., married her brother in an alleged immigration fraud scheme in 2009 began under former President Barack Obama in 2016, Fox News Digital has confirmed. A U.S. Attorney in Minnesota, appointed by then-President Joe Biden, eventually shut down the probe in 2021, a source familiar with the matter … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-80640","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80640","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=80640"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80640\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80640"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80640"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80640"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}