The Office of Congressional Conduct cleared Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., of wrongdoing when it comes to an error in her financial disclosure forms.
Last year, Omar filed a disclosure showing she and her husband, had between $6 million and $30 million in assets. The increase from her 2024 filing sparked Republicans to call for an investigation. Omar then amended the filing, saying her accountant had made a mistake.
Although Omar looked at the 2025 form before it was filed, she didn’t catch the mistake because she trusted the accountant and isn’t involved in her husband’s businesses, aides said.
That amended filing states the couple has between $18,004 and $95,000 in assets.
The Wall Street Journal, which reviewed the confidential findings by the OCC, reported that the entity’s board recommended the House Ethics Committee dismiss allegations that Omar reported false or incomplete information.
A report about the case said there is “not substantial reason to believe that Rep. Omar reported false or incomplete information in her financial disclosures,” according to The Journal.
“From day one, we have been clear: the Congresswoman is not a millionaire,” Omar’s office said in a statement to WCCO. “This vote clearly underscores that the Congresswoman did nothing wrong, and attempts by the far right to manufacture controversy and distract from the facts are pathetic and nothing more than a desperate distraction from their own failures.”
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