by Hugh Fitzgerald

(Front Page Magazine)  Ilhan Omar and her husband Tim Mynett, a political consultant and now a businessman as well, have done remarkably well these last few years. When she began her career in Congress in 2019, Omar had a negative net worth, consisting of between $45,000 and $150,000 of credit card and student loan debt. And now, in 2026, she apparently has a net worth of close to $30 million. She has some ‘splainin to do, especially since she is a Somali from Minnesota, where 98 people, almost all of the fellow Somalis, have been charged with fraud, and so far 60 of them been convicted or pleaded guilty. One of those convicted was Salim Said, co-owner of the Safari Restaurant. In 2020, some of the state’s money was distributed to the Safari Restaurant to provide meals to schoolchildren, but instead was pocketed by Said. Ms. Omar was apparently on good terms with Salim Said; she chose to hold her 2018 congressional victory party at the Safari Restaurant.

This initial fraud case centered on the nonprofit Feeding Our Future; those charged took part in a massive $250 million federal fraud scandal. Investigators believe that the total amount of funds stolen through various fraudulent claims in the state by these fraudsters, who are overwhelmingly Somalis, could amount to nine billion dollars, which would make it the largest fraud case in American history.

Ilhan Omar is already under investigation for her sudden inexplicable rise in wealth. Now Representative James Comer, head of the House Oversight Committee, has opened an investigation into her husband, Tim Mynett, whose finances are so intertwined with those of his wife. More on this investigation can be found here: “Oversight chair Comer requests wide range of business documents from Ilhan Omar’s husband,” by Ana Radelat, MinnPost, February 6, 2026:

A congressional investigative panel on Friday requested financial documents from companies owned by Rep. Ilhan Omar’s husband after President Donald Trump’s insinuations that a sharp rise in the value of those enterprises may be the result of fraud.

Rep. James Comer, R-Ky., the chairman of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, has asked the lawmaker’s husband, Tim Mynett, to turn over a wide variety of documents.

Those include emails, filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission and other information – including all related to any travel to Somalia, Kenya or the United Arab Emirates undertaken by anyone affiliated with Mynett’s companies.

“Given that these companies do not publicly list their investors or where their money comes from, this sudden jump in value raises concerns that unknown individuals may be investing to gain influence with your wife,” Comer wrote Mynett. “Media reports further suggest that you may have raised money from investors using misleading information, meaning some of those funds may have been obtained improperly.”

The companies in question are a winery in California called eStCru and an international consulting firm called Rosel Lake Capital.

“This is all a political stunt,” a spokesperson for Omar said. “These sham accusations are talking points meant to fundraise, not real oversight.”…

Mynett also listed an asset interest in Rose Lake Capital, which describes itself on its web site as a company with vast international experience whose expertise includes “structuring deals, mergers and acquisitions, debt structuring and capital raising.” The company was listed as being valued at between $15,000 to $50,000.

A year later, on Omar’s 2024 financial disclosure form (filed in 2025), Rose Lake Capital was listed as being worth $5 million and $25 million. And the winery in California was listed at being valued at between $1 million and $5 million.

A spokesperson for the congresswoman had previously said the attacks on Omar’s finances were “inaccurate.”

“She does not have millions in the bank,” the spokesperson said. “The financial disclosure clearly shows that the income her husband received (from Rose Lake Capital) did not exceed $15,000.”

The financial disclosures show Mynett received between $15,000 and $50,000 from that business in 2023 and no revenue from Rose Lake Capital in 2024.

Rose Lake Capital’s worth was declared to be between $5 million and $25 million in 2024, the year when it had no revenue. Something is not right. And Rep. Comer, well known as a bulldog of an investigator, will find out what financial shenanigans Tim Mynett and his Somali wife have been up to.

So what was Mynett’s share both in the wine company, eStCru, and in Rose Lake Capital? How did Mynett’s investment in the wine company go from $200-$1000 in 2024, to between $5 and $20 million just a year later? And Rose Lake Capital enjoyed the same precipitous rise in value, increasing in value from between $15,000 and $25,000 in 2023, to between $5 and $25 million just a year later. One would like to know who are Mynett’s partners in both ventures. Perhaps someone from Abu Dhabi, say, or Qatar, investing millions in Rose Lake Capital but taking much smaller stakes than Mynett in the company — as a way to express gratitude for Tim Mynett’s wife Ilhan Omar, for her endless attacks on Israel, and to incentivize Omar to keep upt he good work.

What needs to be, and now will be, investigated is the remarkable and mysterious rise in wealth of both Ilhan Omar and Tim Mynett. Who bought into Rose Lake Capital, infusing it with so much capital? How did the wine company manage to go from being worth as little as $200 to as much as $25 million a year later? And was Ilhan Omar involved in any way in the fantastic fraud that may have cost Minnesota taxpayers as much as nine billion dollars? When both Mynett and Omar are subpoenaed to testify before the House Oversight Committee, and are under oath, they won’t be able to lie their way out as they have been doing so far. A world of woe awaits them.