by Frank Holmes, reporter
One of the most controversial left-wing Democrats in Congress is in hot water for violating federal law in one of the most incredible ways imaginable.
Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., allegedly covered up her husband’s earnings from alcohol and marijuana sales — business ventures that their partners say fleeced them out of more than a million dollars.
Under federal ethics, Omar has to disclose all her income and the income her husband earns to make sure she does not appear to have a conflict of interest.
But she refused, and Congress should initiate an investigation at once, said a conservative watchdog group.
The controversy circles around Omar’s latest husband, Tim Mynett, and his longtime business partner, Will Hailer. The two had been political lobbyists, who ran a Beltway influence-buying business called the E Street Group…but they decided to branch out from cherry blossoms to start selling alcohol and weed.
They allegedly said if Mohd invested in their wine, he’d be drinking champagne. If he’d just give them $300,000, they’d profit so much that they would pay him $900,000 in just 18 months.
If they didn’t come through, they promised, he could charge an extra 10% a month interest.
Mohd turned over the cash…and waited.
The deadline reportedly came and went, and Mohd didn’t get a penny.
Eventually, they paid him back his original $300,000…and not another dime. Mohd has filed a lawsuit trying to recoup the hundreds of thousands of dollars owed to him by their business, which has the weird name, “eStCru, LLC.”
Then there’s the little matter of the marijuana.
Mynett has three other businesses that pooled their resources to start selling legal marijuana. But the firms—eSt Ventures LLC, as well as Badlands Fund Go and Badlands Ventures—fell short.
But court records show that Mynett left Horsted high, and dry.
Horsted got back $1.8 million after a court case…with another $1.7 million nowhere to be found.
Horsted says he thinks the money is up in smoke…and Horsted isn’t buying Omar’s claims she knows nothing about the money.
“If you have a two-person business and one of them is a spouse of a member of Congress it seems suspicious, to say the least, that they never knew about $3.5 million that came into the bank account … that they never knew that $1.7 (million) went missing,” Hosted puffed.
So far, “some people did somethings” that turned into bad deals for Mynett’s partners—and the congresswoman may have benefited financially.
But things get murkier for Omar.
Although she’s supposed to report all her household income, she omitted some of these companies and didn’t report all the income, according to court filings from the National Legal and Policy Center (NLPC).
NLPC filed the legal complaint with Omar Ashmawy, the leader of the Office of Congressional Ethics, on June 25.
“The financial information reported in those reports does not appear to be properly reflected in Rep. Omar’s financial disclosure reports,” said NLPC’s letter.
Omar listed two of her husband and Hailer’s businesses—eStCru, LLC and eSt Ventures, LLC—in her federal financial filings for 2021… but said the first one was only worth between $15,000 and $50,000, way below the $300,000 Mohd allegedly gave them. The same thing happened with the second.
Even if her husband only owned half of the firms, it was worth well above $50,000.
She didn’t mention two of the businesses at all, said NLPC.
NEW: Rep. Ilhan Omar was called out by her opponent for deception over her husband’s shady business dealings with winery and pot growers.
Neither of her husband, Tim Mynett, a related venture involving a California winery and South Dakota marijuana growers panned out.
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— 🇺🇸 Larry 🇺🇸 (@LarryDJonesJr) June 25, 2024
This is far from the first controversy Omar has been involved in. She has been credibly accused of marrying her brother for immigration purposes.
She has acted like the congresswoman from Somalia instead of Minnesota for years.
And as The Horn reported more than three years ago, Omar steered almost $3 million to the E Street Group, the campaign firm run by her husband. That was about 80 percent of his business that year—and almost 70 percent of all Omar’s campaign funds.
But it doesn’t hurt to pay so much when your family gets to skim off the top.