Far-left Democratic U.S. Representative Ilhan Omar of Minnesota has somehow gone from being a penniless refugee to a millionaire.
In 2024, she was worth up to $30 million, her financial disclosures say. Indeed, such is her wealth that one might think that her political career is “all about the Benjamins,” a criticism she once leveled at supporters of Israel.
The sudden accumulation of wealth for the Somali agent of influence is mostly due to her husband, Tim Mynett, whom she stole from his wife after an adulterous affair, the Washington Free Beacon reported in its exposé.
Winery Wealth
“Rep. Ilhan Omar’s personal fortune exploded to upwards of $30 million in 2024, the Minnesota Democrat disclosed just months after telling the press it is ‘ridiculous’ and ‘categorically false’ to say she is worth millions of dollars,” the website reported:
Omar reported in her latest financial disclosure that she and her husband, former political consultant Tim Mynett, accumulated a net worth at the end of 2024 ranging from at least $6 million to $30 million. Their wealth is derived almost entirely from the value of Mynett’s ownership stake in his two companies that, together, were worth no more than $51,000 at the end of 2023.… [T]the figures in Omar’s latest disclosures show that her and her husband’s net worth skyrocketed by at least 3,500 percent in just one year.
Omar’s extraordinary accumulation of wealth in 2024 could raise uncomfortable questions for the Minnesota Democrat, who in February told Business Insider that she has been the subject of a “coordinated right-wing disinformation campaign” that falsely claims she’s worth millions of dollars. Omar said any insinuation that she’s worth more than a few thousand dollars was “ridiculous” and “categorically false.” She also took to X in February, challenging her followers to “maybe try checking my public financial statements and you will see I barely have thousands let alone millions.”
But the origin of the wealth might raise “uncomfortable questions” as well. For part of the homewrecking congresswoman’s massive fortune comes from Mynett’s winery in California, eStCru LLC. Omar is a Muslim. Islam strictly forbids the sale and consumption of alcohol as haram.
The winery and Mynett’s “venture capital firm Rose Lake Capital both achieved remarkable financial turnarounds in 2024,” the Free Beacon reported. But “remarkable” is an understatement, the disclosures show. Mynett’s business partner is former Democratic National Committee advisor Will Hailer.
“Mynett’s stake in his California winery, eStCru LLC, was worth no more than $50,000 at the end of 2023, Omar disclosed,” the website reported:
The winery had just $650 in its bank account in February 2024, according to court documents obtained by the Minnesota Reformer, and was facing a lawsuit from Washington, D.C., businessman Naeem Mohd alleging Mynett and Hailer failed to pay up after promising to triple his $300,000 investment in the winery in just 18 months.
Mohd filed suit in California against Mynett, Hailer, and eStCru LLC in 2023 seeking $780,000 in damages. Mohd filed a motion to drop the suit in November 2024 after reaching a settlement with the winery, the Free Beacon has learned.
“We did settle and the amount was paid,” Modh’s attorney, Faisal Gill, told the Free Beacon. Gill declined to share the exact amount of the settlement.
Mynett and Hailer’s Rose Lake Capital was worth, at most, $1,000 at 2023’s close. Indeed, it had just $42.44 in its bank account, Omar’s disclosure showed.
But then, Omar and Mynett received what must have been a Christmas miracle, the website reported:
By the end of 2024, Mynett’s stake in Rose Lake Capital ballooned to up to $25 million, Omar reported in her latest financial disclosure.
The website drilled deeply into Mynett’s business activities, but the main point of its report is clear. In just 365 days, the couple went from rags to riches, so to speak.
Omar’s Shady Activities
Omar’s adulterous affair with Mynett that both denied, and her campaign’s payment of millions to Mynett’s consultancy, invited unwelcome notoriety in 2019. Of more concern, however, are the credible accusations that she married her brother to commit immigration and student-loan fraud, and her repeated claims that she represents Somalia in Congress, not her constituents.
She has said more than once that her main interest was representing Somalia. “As long as I am in the U.S. Congress, Somalia will never be in danger, its waters will not be stolen by Ethiopia or others,” she said in January 2024:
The U.S. would not dare to support anyone against Somalia to steal our land or oceans.
GOP Representative Tom Emmer of Minnesota demanded an ethics investigation, and GOP Florida Governor Ron DeSantis wanted her deported.
After those remarks went viral, more resurfaced from a talk in 2022.
“The president [of Somalia] and I have a special relationship.,” she said:
I call him uncle and he calls me his girl. Welcome to your home. Our home is your home. Welcome to Minneapolis. We are very happy that Hassan is our president. Somalia is our home. It is home to all the people gathered here. We do not feel that it is far from us. Somalia is our heart. It is in our hearts. We always think about Somalia.
Last year, the former prime minister of Somalia, Hassan Ali Khaire, explained at a campaign event that a vote for Omar is a vote for Somalia.
“The interests of Ilhan is that of Somalian people and Somalia,” he said:
The success of Ilhan is the success of Somalia, and that carries a heavy meaning to us. Speaking in the name of the Somalian people, everywhere they are on the planet, I am asking that you support and give money to Ilhan’s campaign, to support her with your votes.
In 2023, then Republican House Speaker Kevin McCarthy kicked Omar off the House Foreign Relations Committee in part for her “Benjamins” comment, which suggested that Jewish people and the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) buy political support for Israel. Speaking of the 9/11 terror attack, she said “some people did something.”
In 2017, she said the American GIs who fought Somali warlord Mohammed Farah Aidid, memorialized in Black Hawk Down: A Story of Modern War and the subsequent film, were terrorists.
