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International Business Times UK
International Business Times UK
Jim Yango Fantonial

Alan Dershowitz Says Ilhan Omar Citizenship Probe Could Raise 'Continuing Crime' Question

Alan Dershowitz says the Ilhan Omar citizenship probe could involve alleged continuing fraud claims over her birth date (Credit: Gage Skidmore/Wikimedia Commons CC BY-SA 2.0)

Federal agents searched Ilhan Omar's Washington, D.C., home and seized her mobile phone as part of a criminal inquiry into her immigration and citizenship records, and now Alan Dershowitz says the probe could raise a 'continuing crime' question if investigators conclude she repeatedly gave a false birth date.

The Harvard Law School professor emeritus has argued that such conduct, if proved, could affect whether prosecutors face statute-of-limitations barriers.

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