Ilhan Omar faces scrutiny over marriage in probe
The gist
Federal agents searched Rep. Ilhan Omar's Washington home and seized her passport, phone and computer.
The revived probe reopens a decade-old marriage-fraud claim she calls a conspiracy.
How it unfolded
- 2002Omar has said she and Ahmed Abdisalan Hirisi sought a marriage license but did not complete a legal marriage, marrying instead in their Muslim faith tradition.
- 2009Omar, then a U.S. citizen, legally married Ahmed Nur Said Elmi, a British citizen.
- Summer 2016The FBI and Department of Homeland Security investigated the marriage during the Obama administration and found some evidence it was fraudulent, according to current and former law enforcement officials.