Federal agents carried a cellphone, a passport and a computer out of Rep. Ilhan Omar’s Washington, D.C., residence on Oct. 12.
Weeks later, the Minnesota Democrat says most of that property is back in her hands. She says the reason it left remains unexplained.
Omar, D-Minn., described the situation to Fox News Digital on Tuesday, her first day on Capitol Hill since the federal investigations became public.
“I’ve gotten most of them back,” Omar said, referring to the items agents seized.
A reporter asked whether any federal agency had told her the exact basis for the investigations. “No, no,” she said.
Two federal probes into Omar are publicly known.
Sources confirmed to Fox News Digital that the Department of Homeland Security is examining whether Omar or her father filled out her immigration paperwork fraudulently.
U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia Jeanine Pirro publicly confirmed the second probe, which looks into discrepancies in Omar’s financial disclosures.
Omar told Fox News Digital she does not know whether DHS and the Department of Justice are investigating her independently of each other.
She also said she is unsure how many investigations involve her.
“I’m not sure,” Omar said. “You probably have more details on that.”
The conversation followed a roughly two-hour closed-door meeting in Omar’s office in the Longworth House Office Building.
Her attorneys, Amy Jeffress and Joshua Matz, left the office when the meeting ended.
The first public sign of the investigations came when Fox News Digital reported that agents with Homeland Security Investigations were executing a federal raid on Omar’s home.
Sources confirmed the search related to the inquiry into her immigration paperwork.
Agents reportedly took the congresswoman’s cellphone, passport and computer. Fox News Digital later confirmed that investigators also collected a sample of her DNA during the search.
Omar was born in Somalia. She came to the United States in 1995 as a refugee after civil war forced her from her home country. Before that, she spent four years in a refugee camp in Kenya.
Additional details have surfaced since the raid. A federal court filing identifies Omar as “Ilhan Nur Said Elmi.”
The last name in that filing matches the last name of her ex-husband, whom reports have alleged is her brother.
That ex-husband, Ahmed Nur Said Elmi, appeared in the news again after the Daily Caller reported on an academic paper published earlier this year.
In the paper, he described himself as a “gay man,” according to the outlet.
Fox News Digital asked Omar about the paper and about the man’s self-description as “gay” in August 2026.
That month came just before Homeland Security Investigations agents searched her residence and the federal inquiries began. Omar did not answer the question.
Scrutiny of the marriage has continued as new information comes out about the investigations.
Omar returned to the Capitol after winning re-election to a fifth term.
She represents Minnesota’s 5th Congressional District, and voters there sent her back to Washington while both federal inquiries remained open.
Neither investigation has concluded. Omar says no one has told her what either one rests on.
