Federal authorities have seized Omar's phone and issued more than a dozen grand jury subpoenas, including to her sister Sahra Noor and other relatives, days before Homeland Security Investigations agents conducted a five hour search of her Washington home on Monday. Before approving the warrant, Federal Magistrate Judge Matthew Sharbaugh restricted the Justice Department's access to Omar's records due to constitutional protections for members of Congress, CNN reported. Investigators are also examining a May 2019 request by her congressional staff to change her birth year in Minnesota legislative records from 1981 to 1982.
Omar, who has not been personally subpoenaed or charged, denied wrongdoing and called the probe "an attempt to target political enemies and weaponize federal law enforcement" weeks ahead of the midterm elections. Separately, US Attorney Jeanine Pirro's office in Washington is investigating Omar's financial disclosures after the reported value of assets tied to her husband's businesses swung from as much as $30 million to between $18,004 and $95,000 in amended filings.