Ilhan Omar’s husband dismissed rumors she fled the country after a federal immigration-fraud raid, telling reporters he has “no concerns” even as she stayed out of public view.
Tim Mynett stepped out of the couple’s shared rental home in Washington, D.C., on Wednesday and answered questions about the missing congresswoman after Homeland Security Investigations agents searched the residence earlier in the week.
Fox News Digital reported that Mynett was seen walking the couple’s dog Teddy, taking out trash, and escorting one of Rep. Ilhan Omar’s staffers. When asked about talk that the Minnesota Democrat had left the United States, he pushed back hard.
Mynett told the outlet the press was bothering the whole block.
"You guys are annoying the h*** out of all the neighbors around here, man,"
He then defended her path to the country and waved off worry about what agents might find.
"My wife came here when she was 12 years old as a child war refugee,"
Asked about the federal scrutiny of her immigration paperwork, he added a blunt three-word reply.
"No concerns."
Omar herself has not been seen in public since the Monday search. That absence fueled the flight rumors Mynett tried to shut down.
Homeland Security Investigations carried out the Monday raid as part of a criminal fraud investigation into immigration paperwork tied to Omar’s family history. During the search, agents reportedly seized her cellphone and passport, a step that raised the stakes for any travel questions that followed.
Our earlier coverage detailed how federal agents searched Omar’s D.C. home in that immigration fraud probe. The Wednesday scenes at the same address showed life continuing there without the congresswoman in view.
A staffer entered the home carrying two large Burger King bags. Security remained staked out in front after the entry. Mynett’s public appearances that day stood in sharp contrast to Omar’s silence since the raid.
The immigration investigation has reached beyond the D.C. house. At least two of Omar’s relatives were reportedly subpoenaed, including Sahra Noor, identified as her sister. Those moves signal investigators are examining family records, not just the congresswoman’s own file.
Separate reporting has tracked how investigators subpoenaed Omar’s relatives as the probe hit the D.C. home. No charges, arrests, or indictments appear in the available account of this week’s events.
The birth-year record at the Minnesota Legislative Reference Library also figures in the broader paperwork discussion. That record was adjusted from 1981 to 1982, a change described as made with staff help. The altered birthdate remained published through Omar’s entire Minnesota House service and for months after she entered Congress. The age difference matters in naturalization timing questions that can turn on whether a child was 17 or 18 when a parent became a citizen.
On Tuesday, President Donald Trump used Truth Social to hammer Omar’s finances and demand answers. He zeroed in on a congressional financial disclosure that listed a shared net worth as high as $30 million, then was walked back.
Trump wrote that Omar reported a net worth of up to $30 million “just a short time ago,” then said it was really $100,000. He asked whether an accountant had first recorded money tied to what he called fraudulent activities in Minnesota, and whether she was forced to disavow the higher figure because she could not explain where that much money came from.
He went further on the couple’s lifestyle and her husband’s reported income.
"Where did her house come from, where did her cars come from, and what about her lovely place in Washington, D.C.? I didn’t know that Congressmen and women made that kind of money, but I do know her husband, according to information and belief, makes almost nothing, so it couldn’t have come from him. How many people did she illegally bring into our Country from Somalia? America wants answers, and we want them, NOW!"
The 2024 disclosure records themselves show the scale of the revision. Business interests associated with Mynett were valued between $6 million and $30 million before the amendment. His share in a winery was listed between $1 million and $5 million. His share at a venture capital advisory firm was listed between $5 million and $25 million. Both equity interests were later listed at $0.
Omar’s office told Fox News Digital that Mynett has partners in both businesses and that the earlier filing mistakenly reflected the businesses’ total equity rather than his ownership stake. The office also said the original filing listed assets without accounting for liabilities. That explanation landed only after the eye-popping numbers became public.
U.S. Attorney Jeanine Pirro said Tuesday that her office is investigating Omar’s financial disclosures on the reporting of her and Mynett’s shared net worth. Officials noted that this financial inquiry is unrelated to the HSI raid on immigration paperwork.
Two federal tracks now sit side by side: one on immigration records and family subpoenas, and one on how a multimillion-dollar picture of household wealth collapsed into a correction. Coverage of the passport seizure in the D.C. search has already put denaturalization talk into the wider debate, even as no charging documents have been described in this week’s account.
Mynett’s “no concerns” line is the only on-camera answer the family has offered so far. Omar has offered none in public since Monday.
The core HSI case, as described, looks into immigration paperwork rather than a finished set of public charges. Prior reporting has framed the probe as targeting her father’s immigration paperwork more than other long-circulating claims. That focus makes the library birth-year change and the relative subpoenas part of the same documentary trail agents appear to be building.
Legal observers have also sketched how hard any citizenship challenge can be in court. A former prosecutor mapped the steep climb required to strip citizenship even when fraud allegations surface. None of that analysis replaces the simple facts of this week: a Monday search, seized devices and travel documents, absent public appearances by the congresswoman, and a husband on the sidewalk telling cameras he is not worried.
Absolute calendar dates for the raid and the Wednesday sightings were not fixed in the primary account. What is fixed is the sequence. Agents hit the house. Omar stayed out of sight. Trump and Pirro raised the money trail on Tuesday. Mynett faced the cameras on Wednesday and called the flight talk baseless while scolding the press for crowding the neighbors.
Taxpayers and lawful residents get to ask plain questions when a member of Congress faces a fraud search, a passport seizure, and a fortune that shrinks on paper after the fact. Brushing off the neighbors does not close the file.
