{"id":2691285,"date":"2026-10-25T11:42:58","date_gmt":"2026-10-25T15:42:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/ilhan-omar-rakes-in-1-5-million-amid-dhs-investigation-brother-marriage-allegations\/"},"modified":"2026-10-25T11:42:58","modified_gmt":"2026-10-25T15:42:58","slug":"ilhan-omar-rakes-in-1-5-million-amid-dhs-investigation-brother-marriage-allegations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/ilhan-omar-rakes-in-1-5-million-amid-dhs-investigation-brother-marriage-allegations\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Ilhan Omar&#8217; Rakes in $1.5 Million Amid DHS Investigation, Brother Marriage Allegations"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Filhan-omar-rakes-in-1-5-million-amid-dhs-investigation-brother-marriage-allegations%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2691285&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><br \/>\n<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\"><br \/>\n<?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><html><body><\/p>\n<section> \t\t\t\t<script>console.log(\"ad slot (AC1)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC1)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC2)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC3)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC4)\")<\/script><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Things might not be going so well for Democratic Rep. Ilhan Omar of Minnesota amid investigations into whether she uses a fake name, entered the U.S. illegally, and married her brother.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">But the anti-Trump, anti-Israel, anti-America far-left progressive who shrugged off 9\/11 as \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/james-woods-blisters-ilhan-omar-despicable-people-something-statement-9-11\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">some people did something<\/a>\u201d is protesting her wide-eyed innocence all the way to the bank.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Omar cashed in on an FBI raid of her Washington home by raising $1.5 million in campaign funds that day and the next, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/politics\/2026\/10\/23\/ilhan-omars-fundraising-spikes-after-federal-raid-her-home\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Washington Post<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Overall, Omar amassed nearly $1.9 million in the first two weeks of October, according to a Federal Election Commission filing.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Omar closed her fists around $847,000 on Oct. 12, the day of the raid, and pocketed $665,000 the next day.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Omar raised more than $8 million overall in this campaign cycle.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">But apparently that is not enough.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cIt is going to be a very expensive and challenging time,\u201d Omar said Tuesday in a social media video.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Omar is facing Republican John Nagel and independent DeVelle Jackson in the Nov. 5 <a href=\"https:\/\/ballotpedia.org\/Minnesota%27s_5th_Congressional_District_election,_2026\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">election<\/a>. Omar <a href=\"https:\/\/ballotpedia.org\/Minnesota%27s_5th_Congressional_District_election,_2024\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">coasted<\/a> to victory in 2024 with almost 75 percent of the vote, defeating Republican Dalia al-Aqidi, roughly the same  as her <a href=\"https:\/\/ballotpedia.org\/Minnesota%27s_5th_Congressional_District_election,_2022\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">2022<\/a> win.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">So how will all that money get spent if Election Day is once more a cakewalk?<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Keeping to the long-held D.C. axiom that lawyers are a lawmaker\u2019s best friend, Omar has brought on board heavy-hitting D.C. attorney Amy Jeffress, who defended former President Joe Biden amid his autopen scandal, according to the <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2026\/10\/24\/us-news\/ilhan-omar-brings-on-bidens-personal-attorney-amy-jeffress\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">New York Post<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">But while Omar battles to prove her innocence, a body language expert said donors doled out dollars for pure deceit.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cIt\u2019s a nervous smile, and her eyes are not smiling, so it\u2019s not genuine,\u201d body language expert Lillian Glass said after looking at Omar\u2019s desperate-for-dollars video on social media, according to the <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2026\/10\/21\/us-news\/ilhan-omar-showed-deception-as-she-begged-for-money-in-video-after-dc-raid-body-language-expert-says\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">New York Post<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cThe lips curve downward; the raising [of her] eyebrows reflect that she is questioning her own words,\u201d Glass said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In an op-ed for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/opinion\/gregg-jarrett-ilhan-omar-could-face-indictment-denaturalization-deportation\">Fox News<\/a>, Gregg Jarrett offered a nugget to consider in evaluating whether the case is politics or political perjury at long last brought to heel.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cThe warrant served on Omar\u2019s home was approved by a Democratic judge in the District of Columbia, a venue with a long and conspicuous hostility toward Trump and anyone in his orbit,\u201d Jarrett wrote.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cIt is reasonable to conclude, therefore, that the feds must have presented substantial incriminating evidence to justify the signed order, especially against a sitting member of Congress from the judge\u2019s own party and just weeks before an important election,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In an op-ed for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/corner\/should-ilhan-omar-be-denaturalized\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">National Review<\/a>, Daniel Foster noted that Omar \u201cdeserves the presumption of innocence and due process of law.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">However, he added, \u201cI am particularly disgusted by the possibility that Omar would do all these things, and then instead of keeping her head down and earning a simple living, enter high public office on a program premised on America\u2019s numerous shortcomings, and use accusations racism, misogyny, and Islamophobia as cudgels against anyone who has questioned that program and\/or her past.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cHow racist and Islamophobic can America be if it let you get away with all this?\u201d he wrote.<\/p>\n<div style=\"background-color: #f7f7f7; 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