Tim Mynett brushed aside rumors that Rep. Ilhan Omar fled the country after a Homeland Security Investigations raid on their Washington home, even as her passport and cellphone were reportedly seized and relatives faced subpoenas.
On Wednesday, Mynett stepped out of the shared rental house in the District of Columbia to walk the couple’s Golden Labrador, Teddy. Later the same day he took out the trash. A third time, he walked out one of his wife’s congressional staffers, who arrived with two large Burger King bags under a security escort that then stayed posted in front of the home.
Fox News Digital captured the scenes and pressed him on swirling claims that Omar had left the United States after federal agents searched the residence Monday. Omar, a Minnesota Democrat, has not been seen publicly since the raid, which was conducted as part of a criminal fraud investigation into her immigration paperwork.
Mynett did not welcome the cameras.
"You guys are annoying the h*** out of all the neighbors around here, man,"
he told the crew. He then defended his wife’s arrival in America and waved off worry about the probe.
"My wife came here when she was 12 years old as a child war refugee,"
he said, adding,
"No concerns."
Earlier this week he had already told reporters he had “no concerns” about what federal authorities would find while examining her immigration pathway. The New York Post likewise noted his repeated appearances at the house while Omar stayed out of public view.
Homeland Security Investigations agents raided the couple’s Washington residence on Monday. Reporting tied the search to a criminal fraud investigation focused on the Somali-born congresswoman’s immigration records. Omar’s cellphone and passport were reportedly taken during the search. At least two of her relatives were reportedly issued subpoenas as part of the same HSI effort, one of them identified in reporting as her sister, Sahra Noor.
That family scrutiny sits against a longer record of questions about how Omar’s household entered and documented life in the United States, including past reporting on claims about her father’s background as a refugee.
Citizenship details already in the public record add another layer. Omar has been described as gaining citizenship automatically through her father’s naturalization when she was reportedly 17. Her birth year was adjusted from 1981 to 1982 with help from her staff at the Minnesota Legislative Reference Library. The altered birthdate appeared throughout her service in the Minnesota House and for months after she entered Congress. If the 1981 year had stood, she would have been 18 at naturalization under the conditional laid out in the reporting, a difference that matters for how automatic citizenship rules apply.
No charging documents, arrests, or criminal statutes were identified in the available accounts. The absence of public charges has not stopped the paper trail from expanding.
U.S. Attorney Jeanine Pirro said Tuesday that her office is investigating Omar’s financial disclosures and the reporting of the shared net worth she holds with Mynett. Officials noted that this financial-disclosure investigation is unrelated to the raid on the home.
The numbers that triggered the questions are stark. Omar’s 2024 congressional financial disclosure listed business interests associated with Mynett valued between $6 million and $30 million. In those records, his share in a winery was valued between $1 million and $5 million, and his share at a venture capital advisory firm was valued between $5 million and $25 million. Those equity interests are now both listed at $0.
Omar’s office said the earlier figures were incorrect and amended the filing. The office previously told Fox News Digital that Mynett has partners in both businesses, that the original disclosure mistakenly reflected the businesses’ total equity rather than his ownership stake, and that assets had been listed without accounting for liabilities.
President Donald Trump weighed in Tuesday on Truth Social, zeroing in on the swing from a reported net worth as high as $30 million down to a claimed $100,000 and asking where the house, cars, and Washington place came from given what he described as her husband’s limited earnings. He also asked how many people she had brought into the country from Somalia and demanded answers.
Financial disclosure fights are not unique to one progressive office. Similar questions have followed other high-profile Democrats, including coverage of how Ayanna Pressley advanced while money issues swirled.
Outside the house, the optics kept building. Mynett was photographed entering the raided residence. Omar remained unseen. The combination of a sealed search, reported seizures of a passport and phone, and subpoenas to relatives left room for only limited public answers from the family.
Oversight Project President Mike Howell told Fox News Digital the search itself carried a message about the evidence threshold.
"I think there's other shoes that are going to drop here,"
Howell said. He went further:
"They probably got the goods on her. You don't get a federal judge to sign off on something like this in Washington, D.C., of all places, unless there is something that is rather convincing."
He also flagged the subpoenas to relatives and the possibility that investigators are examining newer filings that may repeat older alleged false information. Those are assessments from a watchdog, not findings from a court. They land against a backdrop already filled with amended disclosures, a corrected birth year, and an immigration-paperwork search.
Minnesota readers have watched related enforcement and fraud headaches closer to home, from a Minneapolis police raid at the home of Omar’s son to local fights over immigration-linked spending.
Hennepin County’s own struggles with abuse of relief funds underscored how quickly Minnesota systems can be gamed when oversight slips, a pattern familiar to taxpayers who later saw a $2 million ICE relief fund shut down after fraud swallowed most claims.
What is established is narrow and concrete. Federal agents searched the D.C. residence Monday over immigration paperwork. A cellphone and passport were reportedly seized. Relatives were reportedly subpoenaed. Omar has not appeared in public since. Mynett has. He walked the dog, moved the trash, escorted a staffer carrying fast food, complained about the press, repeated the childhood-refugee account, and said he has no concerns.
Alongside that sit the amended 2024 disclosure ranges that once put Mynett-linked business interests as high as the tens of millions and now list those equities at zero, plus Pirro’s separate financial-disclosure inquiry and Trump’s public demand for a full accounting of assets and immigration sponsorships.
Political spouses often become the public face when a principal goes quiet, a dynamic that has played out in other high-stakes Washington marriages under pressure.
None of the reporting closes the core questions the raids and filings raise: where Omar is, what the seized devices and passport will show, what the subpoenaed relatives will say under oath, and whether the birth-year correction and the citizenship timeline withstand full scrutiny. Those answers belong in records, not hallway denials.
Voters who expect lawful immigration paperwork, honest financial disclosure, and equal enforcement do not need theatrics. They need the documents, the timeline, and a straight answer when federal agents have already been through the front door.