Obama admin first launched the investigation into Ilhan Omar's alleged brother marriage

The investigation into whether Rep.Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., married her brother in an alleged immigration fraud scheme in 2009 began under former President Barack Obama in 2016, Fox News Digital has confirmed.A U.S.

Attorney in Minnesota, appointed by then-President Joe Biden, eventually shut down the probe in 2021, a source familiar with the matter told Fox News Digital.Now, the issue has been thrust back into the spotlight as part of a new federal investigation into the Somali-born congresswoman, part of which centers on whether she or her father committed immigration fraud on her application to become a U.S.citizen.REP ILHAN OMAR'S IMMIGRATION HISTORY FACES NEW SCRUTINY AS FEDERAL INVESTIGATORS SUBPOENA RELATIVESRepresentative Ilhan Omar, a Democrat from Minnesota, speaks to members of the media following a field hearing at the Minnesota Senate Building in St.

Paul, Minnesota, US, on Friday, Jan.16, 2026.

(Victor J.Blue/Bloomberg via Getty Images)Sources previously told Fox News Digital that Omar's "real name" is Ilhan Nur Said Elmi.

In a federal court document, she was called "Ilhan Omar Nur Said Elmi, a/k/a Ilhan Omar."In 2009, Omar, then a U.S.citizen, legally married a man with that surname, Ahmed Nur Said Elmi.

The pair officially split in 2017.The New York Times first reported that Obama's FBI and Department of Homeland Security (DHS) began the probe in the summer of 2016, and that officials "found some evidence that [the marriage] was fraudulent." The Times reported that the investigation concluded when officials decided the potential felony crime was past the statute of limitations.OMAR’S DELETED TWEET COULD GIVE CLUE ON ALLEGED MARRIAGE TO HER BROTHERDespite his own administration's investigation into Omar at the time she was running for the Minnesota House, Obama condemned the renewed probe, which included a Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) raid on her Washington, D.C.home on Oct.

12.Federal authorities confiscated her passport, personal phon...