00:00A new bombshell twist in the sprawling immigration fraud investigation of lefty
00:04representative Ilhan Omar could potentially substantiate a wild decade-old allegation.
00:10Sources spilled to the post that federal prosecutors have made use of whistleblowers,
00:14government records, and now obtained DNA, evidence that could be critical to proving
00:19a long-held rumor that Omar allegedly married her brother in 2009 because she was trying
00:24to help him get a green card. One source pushed back on initial reports that investigators had
00:29gone, quote, dumpster diving in order to get DNA swabs of Omar, her alleged brother-husband
00:35Ahmed Elmi, or other family members. Though it's still unclear whether the congresswoman's
00:40DNA was taken before or after Homeland Security investigators raided her home in Washington,
00:45D.C. last Monday. So what could this DNA evidence mean for Omar's immigration investigation?
00:52Sources who spoke with the post said that the federal investigation into representative Ilhan
00:57Omar has obtained DNA evidence as part of a sprawling investigation into whether she committed
01:04immigration fraud. The allegation hinges in part on a claim that her marriage in 2009 to Ahmed
01:12Elmi is in fact a fraudulent marriage and that Elmi is her brother. It's unclear how much DNA
01:19has been obtained in the case, but it is known that this is critical to the broader conspiracy
01:24probe that is being pursued out of the U.S. attorney's office in Minnesota. If it were true
01:30that she committed marriage fraud in this way, it would still lie outside the statute of limitations.
01:35But a former federal prosecutor spoke with the post indicated that several acts taken as part of
01:42a broader conspiracy, even if outside of this statute of limitations, could nevertheless be important
01:48to the eventual charges that are brought. Omar and her spokespeople have repeatedly denied any claims
01:54of immigration fraud, whether stemming from her second marriage to Elmi or stemming from what's
02:01more recently been reported claims that she may have fibbed her birth date in order to obtain
02:07citizenship when her father naturalized in 2000.
