Report: Omar, Husband Run a Fake Winery. Two Lawsuits Settled.
The swindle has been public for some time, even if the far-left Mainstream Media have largely ignored it. And whether the media cover it might not matter, if the U.S. House Oversight Committee probe of far-left Democratic Representative Ilhan Omar’s sudden explosion of wealth, which is linked to a fake winery that doesn’t make wine, turns up any financial monkeyshines.
Omar’s husband, Tim Mynett, with partner and top Democratic operative William Hailer, has paid millions to settle a fraud lawsuit related to investments in the winery. And the pair still face another lawsuit.
Riffing off Omar’s financial disclosure form, independent journalist Benny Johnson reported that the winery itself is a fraud. The only wines it makes are those from the investors who didn’t receive expected returns on their money.
Johnson Report
The winery is called eStCru LLC,” and in 2023 was valued at $15,000, Johnson reported on X. The next year, it was worth $5 million.
“This must be a very successful winery to grow that much in value over one year. Except… the winery does not even exist,” he continued:
– No phone line
– No physical winery
– Social media gone dark
– A barely functional ‘website’
– No wine lol
What is this?!
It gets worse: Omar’s third husband, Tim Mynett, has been accused of defrauding investors through this FAKE winery. He was sued by the investors for millions because it’s all fraudulent.
Johnson noted that Minnesota’s far-left Democratic Attorney General Keith Ellison worked with Mynett. He just happens to be the man who did nothing about the massive Somali welfare fraud scandal in the state.
“How does a nonexistent winery jump from $15k to $5 million in one year when the company is a ghost?” Johnson asked:
How can Omar claim this fake company provides her millions in assets? Seems like a cover.
Ironically, one of the wine labels they made was literally called “The Devil‘s Lie”
The Trump administration and Republicans in Congress MUST investigate this fraud further.
In a video posted to X, Johnson showed the outfit’s Facebook page, which has been inactive since 2023.
The website showed no wines for sale, while the Google street view of the business doesn’t show a winery at the address. Rather, it showed an empty parking lot and a business with a different name.
When Johnson called the winery’s number, it returned a “busy” message.
Attempting to visit the website now returns a “sorry you’ve been blocked” message.
Lawsuits
Johnson then showed an article about Hailer and Mynett’s legal trouble.
In August 2024, Hailer — again, Mynett’s partner — paid $1.2 million to settle a fraud lawsuit, the Minnesota Reformer noted.
“The case ends a two-year saga that began when Hailer approached 605 Cannabis founder Ned Horsted with an attractive business opportunity for him and the two founders of another cannabis company, Dakota Natural Growers,” the website reported:
Hailer promised he would bring in an additional $7.5 million in investment for the cannabis growers if they gave him the $3.54 million they raised from friends, family and acquaintances.
Hailer, who previously worked for the Democratic National Committee and for Attorney General Keith Ellison, met Horsted years before through Democratic politics.…
Hailer returned $1.86 million in August 2022 and another $500,000 in October 2023 after the cannabis business owners and their investors sued Hailer and three of his companies, eST Ventures, Badlands Fund and Badland Ventures.
The settlement made the investors whole.
Yet that legal trouble for Hailer and Mynett wasn’t all of it.
The Reformer also detailed the lawsuit filed by Naeem Mohd, a restaurateur in the Washington, D.C., area who invested $300,000 in the winery on the promise of a return that would triple his investment.
“The pair had been paid in grapes by a former client and had hired a well-respected Sonoma winemaker to turn those grapes into profit,” the website reported of the scam:
They promised if they didn’t pay Mohd the full $900,000 on time, they would tack on 10% monthly interest on any outstanding balance, according to the contract shared with the Reformer.
The offer might have seemed suspicious if not for the person making it: Tim Mynett, a well-connected political consultant and husband to U.S. Rep. Ilhan Omar, whom he married in 2020.
Mohd’s attorney, Faisal Gill, another top Democratic operative, recommended the investment.
“But 18 months came and went without Mohd receiving the 200% return he was promised from the winery, eStCru,” the website continued:
Mynett and Hailer only returned Mohd’s $300,000 — about a month late — according to a lawsuit Gill filed on behalf of Mohd in California last fall seeking at least $780,000.
The complaint, which has not been previously reported, claims the pair “fraudulently misrepresented … that estCru, LLC was a legitimate company.”
That lawsuit too was settled, Fox News reported, without disclosing details.
Omar Link
The lawsuits raise the question of Omar’s role in the matter, particularly given her congressional campaign’s former relationship with Mynett’s E Street Group political consultancy. He and Hailer founded in 2018, as the Reformer noted.
Omar’s campaign funneled millions to the consultancy, a form of self-dealing given her romantic relationship with Mynett. Omar helped wreck Mynett’s marriage to a prominent physician in Washington, D.C., and shacked up with Mynett before they married and while her campaign paid his consultancy.
The campaign cut ties with the company, but only after it collected almost $3 million.
House Republicans are probing Omar’s rapid accumulation of wealth.
“We’re going to get answers, whether it’s through the Ethics Committee or the Oversight Committee, one of the two,” House Oversight chief James Comer he told the New York Post:
“There are a lot of questions as to how her husband accumulated so much wealth over the past two years,” Comer said. “It’s not possible. It’s not. I’m a money guy. It’s not possible.”
Omar also married her brother to commit immigration fraud.
