There’s another bombshell in the long list of scandals that Ilhan Nur Said Elmi, a.k.a. U.S. Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., now is facing.
This, from a New York Times report, is that the administration of fellow Democrat Barack Obama investigated her, and “found evidence that her marriage may have been fraudulent in 2016.”
The Fox report credited the Times for its confirmation that “prosecutors within the Obama administration stalled the case after determining that the potential felony charges would fall outside the 5-year statute of limitations.”
“Omar has long faced rumors that she fraudulently married one of her brothers for immigration purposes. She has denied the accusation as a right wing conspiracy theory,” the report said.
However, if the accusations are documented, the Somali native potentially could face denaturalization as well as deportation.
BREAKING via NYT: In 2016, the Obama administration investigated Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) and found “some evidence that Ms. Omar had entered into a sham marriage with a man suspected of being her brother”, but the case and potential felony charges stalled because of a 5 year statute of limitations. https://t.co/7GSQB4qNim
— Bill Melugin (@BillMelugin_) October 29, 2026
A new investigation has been launched by President Donald Trump’s administration into her history, prompting her to claim it is “political.”
Obama himself, jumped to her defense, claiming to investigate possible federal crimes is “appalling.”
Interestingly, several dozen Democrats in Congress refused to sign a letter assembled by Rep. Pramila Payapal accusing the DOJ and DHS of “weaponizing” law enforcement against her.
That came after law enforcement raided her home in Washington with a search warrant seeking evidence for their investigation of her.
Online reports confirmed, “The probe centers on allegations involving her late father’s immigration paperwork and her age at the time the family arrived from Somalia. A judge signed the warrant. Agents reportedly left with documents, phones, and other items.”
But about 40 Democrats refused to sign Jayapal’s politicization of the dispute.
The report revealed, “It is an early sign of the slow abandonment already underway. Party leaders still defend her in public statements, but the number of Democrats willing to attach their names is shrinking. For lawmakers in swing districts, the political risk of standing with Omar now outweighs the benefit. Expect more distance as the investigation continues and the midterms approach.”
40 House Democrats Won’t Sign Letter Defending Ilhan Omar, Including Nancy Pelosi In February 2023, every House Democrat voted to block Rep. Ilhan Omar’s removal from the Foreign Affairs Committee over her past comments about Israel. Republicans still removed her. This week the picture looks different. Rep. Pramila Jayapal led a letter signed by 175 House Democrats accusing DOJ and DHS of “weaponizing” law enforcement after agents searched Omar’s Washington, D.C. home earlier this month. The probe centers on allegations involving her late father’s immigration paperwork and her age at the time the family arrived from Somalia. A judge signed the warrant. Agents reportedly left with documents, phones, and other items. Roughly 40 Democrats declined to sign. Among them: former Speaker Nancy Pelosi, Josh Gottheimer (NJ), Tom Suozzi (NY), Laura Gillen (NY), and Marie Gluesenkamp Perez (WA). Current Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries did sign. The non-signers are disproportionately from competitive districts or areas with significant Jewish or moderate constituencies where embracing Omar has been politically costly. Omar has a long record of controversial statements on Israel and other foreign-policy issues that many Democrats previously defended but now appear less eager to own right before Election Day. Democrats usually close ranks. When 40 of them, including Pelosi, choose not to, it is an early sign of the slow abandonment already underway. Party leaders still defend her in public statements, but the number of Democrats willing to attach their names is shrinking. For lawmakers in swing districts, the political risk of standing with Omar now outweighs the benefit. Expect more distance as the investigation continues and the midterms approach. The letter frames the search as election interference 22 days before the vote. Those who stayed off it are letting that argument be made by others. Stop Communism Vote RED in the Midterms Vote America First 🇺🇸
— Patricia 🇺🇸 (@1109Patricia) October 29, 2026
WND has reported on other scandals, including how her financial disclosures exploded from about $100,000 to $30 million in a year, then plunged back down just as fast.
Also, the year she claims she was born.
The basics are that she now claims her birth year was 1982, which would have made her 17, a juvenile, when her father apparently obtained citizenship, and would be a citizen.
But it’s documented that after she joined Congress she gave orders to a number of nonpolitical resources to change her birth year from 1981, a date under which she would have been technically 18 and an adult, and ineligible for citizenship under her father’s application. Those resources didn’t see any documentation, they just changed the date because that’s what she said.
She apparently never filed a citizenship application on her own.
Her own autobiography states, “I was eight years old when civil war broke out in Somalia. One day everything was okay, and the next, there were bullets piercing not only buildings but also people,” she wrote of the war that broke out in 1989.
“The claim that she was 8 in 1989 points to a birth year of 1981, meaning she was 18 or 19 in 2000 at the time of her naturalization,” the Federalist said
In another part of her book, “Elmi once again made claims that would give her a 1981 birth year, as opposed to 1982. During a three-month trip back to Somalia in 2011, Elmi said, ‘I was thirty years old.'”
In her book, Ilhan Nur Said Elmi (aka Ilhan Omar) claimed to take a three-month trip with her father to Somalia in 2011 when she was 30 years old That would place her birthday in 1981 at the latest, well before her claimed birthday of October 4, 1982 https://t.co/fMCbYFmH4m
— Will Chamberlain (@willchamberlain) October 26, 2026
NEW: Reporting details a multi-pronged federal inquiry zeroing in on Rep. Ilhan Omar—revealing “three pieces of trouble” on the immigration front alone: • Missing DHS records: “If her father was never naturalized, there’s literally no theory under which she could be naturalized.” • Congressional paperwork: An altered birth date likely behind the search warrant’s conspiracy charge—allegedly involving staff who “was in on it.” • Family ties: Marriage fraud claims where “the DOJ reportedly has the DNA.” “And that doesn’t even get to the financial investigation.” | @PaulDMauro
— FOX & Friends (@foxandfriends) October 27, 2026
“Ilhan Omar listed her date of birth as 1981 back when she was a young lawmaker, and it has since been revised to 1982.” @jsolomonReports shares that a discrepancy in Ilhan Omar’s birth date presents a factual case, not a conspiracy theory. https://t.co/n31F4CoEgG
— Just the News (@JustTheNews) October 13, 2026
Other similar references have been found in the Atlantic, the BBC, and Le Temps.
And President Donald Trump has weighed in:
It was just revealed that Ilhan Omar’s name is not Ilhan Omar, the one she used to get elected and sworn into Congress, but rather, it’s an entirely different name, Ilhan Nur Said Elmi, and that her last name is, incredibly, also the exact name of her brother, Ahmed Nur Said Elmi, the person they said she married and had children with. When asked whether or not she married her brother, she said, “Not to my knowledge.” In other words, she somehow didn’t know? Therefore, because she used a fake name to be sworn in, I assume she must IMMEDIATELY resign from Congress. Please inform the Speaker of the House of Representatives, James Michael Johnson, that the Dumocrat Party has just conceded her seat. Ilhan Nur Said Elmi, her real name, has openly admitted to FRAUD, and she will not be legally allowed to be a Member of this August Body from this point forth. Thank you for your attention to this matter! President DONALD J. TRUMP ( TS: Oct 22 2026, 11:20 PM ET )
— Commentary Donald J. Trump Truth Social Posts On X (@TrumpTruthOnX) October 23, 2026
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