MINNEAPOLIS — Rep. Ilhan Omar’s soap-opera love life threatened to become more of a political thriller Wednesday as watchdog groups questioned whether her alleged affair with a married member of her paid political-consulting team constituted an ethics violation.

“It looks like on the surface that she used campaign finance funds to benefit her paramour,” said Tom Fitton, head of conservative oversight group Judicial Watch, which last month asked the House Office of Congressional Ethics to investigate unsubstantiated claims that Omar (D – Minn.) married her brother to get him a green card.

“The new reporting is additional reason for an ethics investigation,” said Fitton, adding that, in light of The Post’s exclusive reporting, he plans to file a supplemental complaint with the OCE — and may also ask the Federal Election Commission to eye the arrangement. “This would be par for the course for Ilhan Omar.”

The renewed call came Wednesday as the freshman congresswoman — named as “the other woman” in a bombshell divorce case filed Tuesday in DC Superior Court — emerged without comment from a Minneapolis apartment building listed to husband Ahmed Hirsi, from whom she reportedly split last month.

Dr. Beth Mynett, 55, claims in the filing that her husband of seven years, Tim Mynett, 38, walked out on her and their 13-year-old son in April, professing that he was “in love” with Omar, 37, a twice-married mother of three.

While it’s unclear exactly when the alleged extramarital dalliance began, Omar’s ties to Tim Mynett’s E Street Group consulting firm date to 2018, since which she’s paid them $230,000 — including $70,000 since April 2019, when the Mynetts’ marriage crumbled.

Ethics experts and watchdogs agreed Wednesday with the FEC’s position that the arrangement was technically aboveboard, so long as Mynett was actually doing work for the money — though the optics remain troubling.

“There’s nothing that under federal election law prohibits a campaign from paying a candidate’s family member or someone with whom the candidate has a romantic relationship provided that it’s a payment for bona fide services paid to the campaign,” said Bryson Morgan, an expert in political law at Caplin & Drysdale.

“A complaint like this can still be a headache,” Morgan added. “It is still something that Rep. Omar’s campaign will need to respond to that will take time, energy [and] legal expenses.”

Added Jan Witold Baran, a partner at DC firm Wiley Rein and expert in government ethics, “Paying family members may be legal, but it always raises political issues since voters don’t like nepotism.”

Meanwhile, Omar denied reports that she’s separated from her second husband, Ahmed Abdisalan Hirsi, or dating anyone new.

“No I am not,” she told Minnesota CBS affiliate WCCO, when posed the questions. “I have no interest in allowing the conversation about my personal life to continue and so I have no desire to discuss it.”