Jeanine Pirro Digs Into Claims of an Ilhan Omar Birthday “Cover-Up”

Staff working for Rep. Ilhan Omar reportedly sought to alter the Minnesota Democrat’s birth year in official state records several months after she won her congressional seat in 2018, according to a newly published report.

The Minnesota Legislative Reference Library had long listed the Somali-born lawmaker’s date of birth as October 4, 1981, including during her years in the state House. The same date also appeared in her Wikipedia biography and in coverage by outlets such as the BBC.

But emails obtained by the New York Post indicate that Omar’s aides contacted the library in May 2019 and asked officials to change the birth year to 1982.

In an email sent shortly after the record was updated, the library’s director said Omar’s team had reported that her birth year was wrong and requested that it be changed to 1982.

The message also said Omar’s aides were seeking identical updates from Wikipedia and the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress.

The discrepancy is significant because Omar has said she obtained U.S. citizenship through her father, Nur Omar Mohamed, after he was naturalized in 2000. That pathway was available only to children younger than 18.

Critics contend that if Omar was born in 1981, rather than 1982, she would have been over the age limit when her father became a citizen. In September 2018, Omar said she became a U.S. citizen through her father’s naturalization “before I turned 18.”

The report about the conflicting birth years emerged days after Homeland Security agents carried out a pre-dawn raid at Omar’s Washington, D.C., home on Monday. Agents were seen loading boxes of seized property into government vehicles.

People familiar with the long-running federal criminal investigation said authorities are examining whether false information was included on immigration documents.

Omar has categorically denied wrongdoing and described the raid as “an attempt to target political enemies and weaponize federal law enforcement.”

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The investigation expanded Tuesday when U.S. Attorney Jeanine Pirro confirmed that prosecutors were also reviewing Omar’s financial disclosure filings.

“We’re looking at the facts,” Pirro told Fox News.

Omar’s 2025 disclosure initially reported jointly held assets with her husband valued between $6 million and $30 million. She later amended the filing to show a substantially lower range, attributing the original figures to accounting mistakes.

Omar’s office has cited a recent recommendation from the House ethics watchdog to dismiss allegations related to the filings as part of her defense.

Also Tuesday, The New York Times reported that federal prosecutors had issued grand jury subpoenas to Omar’s sister, Sahra Noor, and at least one other relative while investigating the family’s immigration history.

The subpoenas do not establish that Omar committed a crime or wrongdoing. They do, however, indicate that the federal investigation involving the congresswoman remains active.

Noor runs a Minneapolis-based consulting firm that says it secured ‘more than $20 million in funding for health initiatives and consulted on projects backed by’ the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, United States Agency for International Development and other groups.

Omar has long faced allegations, including claims made to the Daily Mail by a Somali community leader, that her 2009 marriage to Ahmed Elmi was intended to help him obtain US immigration status.

Omar denies that Elmi was her brother or that the marriage was fraudulent. 

Asked about the search on Monday, Donald Trump told reporters: ‘I have nothing to do with it.’

The president insisted the matter was ‘really up to the DOJ,’ while still branding Omar ‘totally crooked, personally.’