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Alan Dershowitz argues Rep. Ilhan Omar in 'deep, deep trouble' with investigation
(NewsNation) As the federal investigation into Minnesota Democratic Rep. Ilhan Omar continues, prominent attorney and Harvard Law School professor Alan Dershowitz said he believes the congresswoman is in serious legal jeopardy.
The case involving the congresswoman centers on questions surrounding her citizenship and immigration records, including how she obtained legal status after immigrating to the United States from Somalia decades ago. Investigators are also looking at actions by her late father, who brought the family to the U.S. from a Kenyan refugee camp in 1995.
A.J. Kern, a former Minnesota congressional candidate who ran against Omar, raised this issue in 2019. Omar claims neither of those appears to be true and that she has documents to support it.
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NewsNation has confirmed federal prosecutors have issued more than 15 subpoenas, including to relatives of Omar, as part of an ongoing criminal investigation, according to a source familiar with the investigation.
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Dershowitz's vast experience in dealing with search warrants done against government officials means there's something very substantial in the case, he told "On Balance."
"This is not the normal case of a judge just signing off," Dershowitz said. "And so I suspect there's a lot more than we now know publicly."
While Omar hasn't been charged with any crime, Dershowitz hopes she ends up in prison.
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"She's a horrible, horrible human being, a horrible member of Congress, a horrible anti-American, anti-Semite, anti-Israel," he stated. "And I hope she has to go to jail. The statute of limitations may be over on some of her criminal conduct, but not on her fraud in becoming a citizen."
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Omar has maintained that she has done nothing wrong. Dershowitz argued that public opinion could shift if federal investigators are able to prove she provided false information on her citizenship application or that someone else submitted false information on her behalf.
"If she continues to lie, if she continues to give her birth date wrongly, even though she did it in the past, and the past may be beyond the statute of limitations, this may constitute what's called a continuing crime," he said. "And so the statute of limitations may be satisfied."
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"We don't know how deep the trouble is. But at the very least, if it turns out that she lied or that her citizenship was obtained through fraud, whether it's her fraud or her father's fraud, she has great vulnerability to being denaturalized."
Omar is seeking a fifth term in Congress.
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