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FBI Under Obama Found Evidence of Omar's Alleged Marriage Fraud
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In Short: The FBI and Department of Homeland Security under President Barack Obama found evidence suggesting Rep. Ilhan Omar entered into a sham marriage with a man suspected of being her brother to help him obtain a green card.
The FBI and Department of Homeland Security under former President Barack Obama found evidence suggesting Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) entered into a sham marriage with a man suspected of being her brother to help him obtain a green card, according to a new report by The New York Times.
In a recent court filing, the Justice Department referred to Omar as Ilhan Nur Said Elmi, even though she divorced Elmi in 2017.
The Obama-era investigation began in 2016 and uncovered some evidence that the marriage was fraudulent, but prosecutors did not pursue charges due to the five-year statute of limitations.
Omar has repeatedly denied the allegations, dismissing them as a right-wing conspiracy theory.
The current investigation into Omar's immigration history was launched by the Trump administration, which Obama called 'appalling' in an X post.
The investigation into Omar's marriage and immigration history has raised potential criminal issues, as federal law prohibits knowingly entering a marriage only to obtain a green card, and all 50 states prohibit siblings from marrying.
The latest scrutiny comes weeks after federal agents searched Omar's Washington, DC, home on October 12 as part of a criminal investigation.
Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin has also weighed in on the federal investigation, saying investigators were pursuing the case and indicating that it could be presented to a grand jury.
Omar has claimed she obtained US citizenship through her Somali-born father, Nur Omar Mohamed, who died in 2020, though no records of her or her father's naturalization have been found.
The 2019 review by the Minneapolis Star Tribune said available records could neither confirm nor disprove that Elmi was Omar's brother.
The Obama administration's investigation found evidence suggesting that Elmi and Omar were siblings, according to six former and current officials familiar with the case.
The investigation into Omar's marriage and immigration history has shadowed her political career for more than a decade, with President Trump repeating the accusation last week.
What this adds
The investigation into Omar's marriage and immigration history began under the Obama administration, raising questions about the statute of limitations and potential criminal charges.
The Obama administration's decision to drop the investigation and the subsequent actions by the Trump and Biden administrations have added layers of complexity to the ongoing probe.
The current investigation is broader than the initial Obama-era probe, examining potential misrepresentations on Omar's immigration applications.
Background
Federal agents under the Obama administration investigated Rep. Ilhan Omar's marriage to Ahmed Nur Said Elmi, finding some evidence that it was fraudulent, according to a new report.
Minnesota Rep. Ilhan Omar is set to appear at a campaign event with controversial streamer Hasan Piker on Monday night, despite mounting opposition from fellow Minnesota Democrats.
What's confirmed
- “The F.B.I. and Department of Homeland Security investigated the marriage in summer 2016, during the Obama administration, and found some evidence that it was fraudulent, current and former officials said,” reports the Times.
- In a recent court filing, and even though she divorced Elmi in 2017, the Justice Department referred to Omar as Ilhan Nur Said Elmi.
- When Hayes asked whether there was any possibility that her former husband was related to her, Omar replied: 'Not to my knowledge.' The president pounced on her response during a rally in Iowa on October 22, mocking Omar for saying she didn't know whether her former husband was related to her.
- The FBI and Department of Homeland Security under former President Barack Obama found evidence that Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) committed marriage fraud with a man suspected of being her brother, The New York Times reported on Thursday.
- The allegations raise two potential criminal issues for the Democrat congresswoman as federal law prohibits knowingly entering a marriage only to obtain a green card, and all 50 states prohibit siblings from marrying.
- 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.
- WASHINGTON, DC: Amid the heightened scrutiny around alleged marriage fraud against House Representative Ilhan Omar, a new report claims that former President Barack Obama’s administration had found some evidence against her.
- Omar allegedly married her brother, Ahmed Nur Said Elmi in 2009 to help him obtain a green card.
- As Rep. Ilhan Omar faces a federal investigation into potentially fraudulent immigration paperwork and allegations that she married her brother to help him obtain a green card, The New York Times reported Thursday that federal investigators first examined the marriage under the Obama administration.
- A 2019 review by the Minneapolis Star Tribune said available records could neither confirm nor disprove that Elmi was Omar's brother.
- Mr. Elmi had obtained a provisional two-year green card based on the marriage, two former officials said.
- Sources told The Post investigators are looking into whether Omar was part of "a family conspiracy to commit immigration fraud," which President Donald Trump said could lead to her deportation.
What's still developing
- Democrats are screaming "political persecution," but Obama's own agents were the ones digging into this first.
- 3, 1992, and recently opened the Barack Obama Presidential Center in Chicago Barack and Michelle Obama 's marriage is more than three decades strong.
- So, as it turns out, the 2012 presidential election won’t really be about same-sex marriage.
- For ten years, Ilhan 'Omar' and her allies have called those who questioned her marriage to Ahmed Nur Said Elmi racists and bigots. 'Omar' has targeted my friend Scott Johnson in particular with those allegations after he and his partners dug up considerable evidence that Ahmed is her brother and that her real name is actually Ilham Nur Said Elmi. 'Omar' allegedly changed her name at some point to cover up her immigration fraud and has used a false identity ever since, according to Scott and others.
- Omar married a brother first surfaced publicly in 2016, when she was on the brink of making history as the first Somali American elected to a state legislature.
- But because she was 17, she became a naturalized citizen automatically.
- Supreme Court decision upholding President Barack Obama’s health-care reform law, the election will–at its core–be squarely about Obamanomics, and whether American voters are happy enough with the results of four years of radical economic experimentation to give the go ahead for four more of the same.
- Naturally, because Omar is a Democrat … and female … and a racial minority (and therefore an untouchable precious), Minnesota’s then-U.S.
- But when it came time to make his status permanent, Elmi chose to leave the States rather than provide documentation proving he was in a valid marriage with Omar.
- This points to the Justice Department believing the name “Omar” is an alias, and not her real name.
- The ceremony in Eden Prairie, Minnesota, was officiated by a Christian minister Omar has firmly denied wrongdoing and dismissed the longstanding marriage claims as a conspiracy theory.
- For Omar, Obama wrote on X, legitimately entered the United States as a minor, a matter of dispute that invited the immigration fraud probe.