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Obama-Era DOJ Found Evidence of Omar's Alleged Brother Marriage Fraud
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In Short: According to the New York Times, the FBI and Department of Homeland Security investigated the marriage in 2016 during the Obama administration and found evidence suggesting that Elmi may have been Omar's brother.
The Obama administration's Department of Justice and Homeland Security investigated Rep. Ilhan Omar's marriage to Ahmed Nur Said Elmi, finding some evidence that it was fraudulent.
The investigation began in 2016, and officials found evidence that Elmi and Omar were siblings, though the statute of limitations had expired by the time the Obama administration concluded its investigation.
Omar's marriage to Elmi in 2009 resulted in Elmi receiving a green card, but he reportedly fled back to England rather than provide the information necessary to prove his marriage to Omar was legitimate.
The Obama administration declined to bring charges due to the statute of limitations, but the Trump administration has since launched its own investigation into Omar's immigration history.
Omar has repeatedly denied the allegations, dismissing them as a right-wing conspiracy theory.
In a recent court filing, the Justice Department referred to Omar as Ilhan Nur Said Elmi, even though she divorced Elmi in 2017.
The investigation has raised potential criminal issues for Omar, as federal law prohibits knowingly entering a marriage only to obtain a green card, and all 50 states prohibit siblings from marrying.
Former officials told The Times that prosecutors refused to pursue an immigration marriage fraud case against Omar because the statute of limitations had expired.
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.
The Obama administration's investigation into Omar's marriage to Elmi has been a matter of dispute for over a decade, with Omar's supporters dismissing the allegations as a conspiracy theory.
Despite the Obama administration's investigation, Omar has maintained that Elmi is not her brother and that their marriage was not intended to secure immigration benefits.
Background
The Obama administration's Department of Justice and Homeland Security investigated Rep. Ilhan Omar's marriage to Ahmed Nur Said Elmi, finding some evidence that it was fraudulent.
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.
What's confirmed
- The far-left New York Times admitted this week that the Obama-era Department of Justice and Homeland Security “found some evidence” that in 2009, Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) married her brother to help him obtain a green card.
- “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.
What's still developing
- Published: 09:56 EDT, 29 October 2026 | Updated: 12:42 EDT, 29 October 2026 The FBI under President Barack Obama found evidence suggesting Democratic Representative Ilhan Omar entered into a sham marriage with a man suspected of being her brother, an explosive new report claims.
- The revelations come as President Donald Trump’s Justice Department pursues a separate criminal investigation into the congresswoman’s immigration history, which Obama himself rebuked in a fiery 400-word statement.
- The other Democrats in the House remain silent – as does Obama.
- 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.
- Omar committed marriage fraud with a brother has shadowed the Minnesota Democrat’s political career for more than a decade and President Trump repeated the accusation last week.
- A separate review of Omar's immigration history in 2019, during Trump's first administration, reached a different conclusion.
- 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.