The questions just keep coming for Minnesota Rep. Ilhan Omar. The Democratic lawmaker has been under a searing microscope of late — though not enough of a microscope to offset her winning a 5th term in the 2026 midterms — as she has been the subject of a federal investigation. Renewed questions surrounding her immigration filings, her marital status, and even her actual name have all been raised following an October raid of Omar’s Washington, D.C., home. The scope of this case even appears to have now ensnared those very loosely in her orbit.
According to The New York Times, a former Somali bodyguard of Omar’s was indicted before being deported, but it’s the ex-bodyguard’s potential connections to Omar that are raising eyebrows. Federal prosecutors filed a felony charge earlier this year against Abdullahi Mohamed, who had briefly served as Omar’s bodyguard during a recent trip to Somalia. At the root of the issue was Mohamed — who has Somali and British citizenship — lying about whether he had ever worked on behalf of the Somali government, and whether he ever had “interactions with any government officials or politicians in the United States.”
