DOJ Subpoenas Ilhan Omar’s Relatives

Federal investigators issued grand jury subpoenas to Rep. Ilhan Omar’s sister, Sahra Noor, and at least one other relative in a criminal inquiry focused on family immigration records. Homeland Security Investigations had searched Omar’s Washington home under a court-authorized warrant in the same inquiry. Investigators are examining whether Omar’s late father gave false or incomplete information on immigration forms, including a reported 2019 request by her staff to change her listed birth year. Omar says she became a citizen in 2000 through her father while she was 17, making the age issue important. Omar denies wrongdoing and calls the search political intimidation. Authorities have not disclosed what evidence the subpoenas seek.