Jeanine Pirro, the U.S. attorney for the District of Columbia, said Tuesday that her office is investigating Rep. Ilhan Omar's financial disclosures. She confirmed the inquiry on Fox News' "America Reports" when anchor John Roberts asked about the Minnesota Democrat's filings, which once put the value of businesses tied to her husband as high as $30 million before she amended them.
"Well, I can tell you that is subject of an investigation as well," Pirro said, according to a transcript of the exchange. "And it doesn't matter. It doesn't matter what the House does. It doesn't matter, you know, what this agency or that does. We're looking at the facts. Based upon the facts, we'll follow them wherever they take us." Asked whether her office was the one handling it, she answered, "Yep." She offered no further details.
Pirro spoke one day after Homeland Security Investigations agents executed a judicially authorized search warrant at Omar's Washington home, a step the Justice Department confirmed was part of an ongoing federal criminal investigation. Two sources familiar with that probe told Fox News it involves Omar's immigration paperwork. Whether the search has anything to do with the financial disclosure inquiry is not clear.
The filings at issue drew scrutiny earlier this year. They showed two ventures tied to her husband, Tim Mynett, a California winery called eStCru LLC and a Washington venture capital firm called Rose Lake Capital LLC, with combined reported values of $6 million to $30 million for 2024, up from roughly $15,000 to $51,000 the year before. Because the forms report assets in broad ranges, the numbers never established the couple's actual net worth. House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer, a Kentucky Republican, asked for records from both companies in February.
Omar amended the disclosure in April, lowering the couple's combined reported assets to between $18,004 and $95,000 and listing both businesses as having no net value once liabilities were counted. Her office said at the time that the original filing had failed to properly account for those liabilities and gave a misleading picture of the couple's finances. Omar has repeatedly said she is not a millionaire. Her most recent annual disclosure, filed in May, listed assets of roughly $20,000 to $125,000, according to a Minnesota Star Tribune analysis cited by Fox News.
The filings have already been reviewed once. In September, the Office of Congressional Conduct voted 5-1 to recommend that the House Ethics Committee dismiss misconduct allegations arising from the disclosures, finding no substantial reason to believe Omar had reported false or incomplete information in violation of federal law or House rules. Omar's office described the finding as vindication. That review is separate from the federal investigation Pirro described.
Omar has denied wrongdoing and accused the Trump administration of targeting her for political reasons, especially since Monday's search of her Washington residence.