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Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., returned to Capitol Hill this week and brought two lawyers with her after a scandal-plagued fall recess.
Fox News spotted the two attorneys exiting her Washington, D.C., office Tuesday after what appeared to be a roughly two-hour meeting with the congresswoman.
Omar hired two high-profile attorneys, Amy Jeffress and Joshua Matz, both of whom are partners at Heckler Fink LLP, amid dueling investigations. After emerging from Omar’s office on Tuesday, Fox News asked about their confidence in Omar’s defense against the federal government.
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The attorneys were also asked about the recent news that both the Obama and Biden administrations had been the first to investigate Omar after she claimed that the Trump administration was politically targeting her.
They remained silent.
This is the first sighting of Omar back on the Hill after two federal departments opened investigations into the Somali-born congresswoman looking into both her immigration status and previous financial filings.
In October, agents with Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) raided her Washington, D.C., home as part of what Fox News Digital learned was an investigation into whether she or her father committed fraud when filling out her immigration paperwork.
She spent the final weeks of her campaign asking for money to defend herself in the investigations and accusing Trump of targeting her for political reasons.
About an hour after Omar’s lawyers exited her office Tuesday, the congresswoman departed with husband Tim Mynett.
She was approached by Fox News about the ongoing investigation and asked whether she is concerned it could affect her ability to effectively represent her constituents in Congress.
“I am not,” Omar said.
She was then asked if there was any chance she would step down from Congress despite just winning re-election to let the investigation “play out.”
The congresswoman smiled and waved at the camera but did not respond as the elevator doors closed with her inside.
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Omar also refused to respond to Fox’s question about whether she had spoken to House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries about the investigation.
The attorneys seen exiting her office earlier, Jeffress and Matz, have both represented high-ranking Democratic elected officials and have taken on multiple cases against President Donald Trump, his allies and supporters.
Jeffress served as former President Joe Biden’s attorney in his lawsuit against the Justice Department earlier this year. She also served as counsel for then-House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and the House committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, riot on Capitol Hill.
She is also married to U.S. District Judge Christopher Cooper of the District of Washington, who ruled in May that Trump’s addition his name to the John F. Kennedy Performing Arts Center was illegal.
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Matz served as counsel to House Democrats during both failed impeachment attempts against Trump during his first term in office. Matz also represented E. Jean Carroll in two civil cases against Trump’s denial of her sexual assault claims against him.
Matz also represented those opposed to the Florida Parental Rights in Education Act, which banned teachers from teaching students about gender identity and sexual orientation.
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Omar has not yet formally announced a meeting with any members of Congress about the two ongoing federal probes. Her only formal address to the public on the investigations was posting to social media, including a video in which she encouraged her supporters to keep sending money in light of the new investigations against her.
Fox News Digital’s Peter D’Abrosca contributed to this report.
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