Congresswoman Ilhan Omar (D-MN) has branded herself as a humble servant of the working class since being elected to Congress, but her financial disclosures reveal a different story.
Back in February, the three-term ‘Squad’ member representing Minnesota’s 5th congressional district went on the record to refute rumors that she was a secret millionaire. In response to a post alleging her fortune had ballooned high into the millions, Omar wrote, in part, on X:
“My salary is $174,000 before taxes, I don’t have stock or own a home and still paying off my student debt. So if you are going to lie on something that is public, maybe try checking my public financial statements and you will see I barely have thousands let alone millions 🤦🏽♀️.”
Just a few days later, Omar doubled down, telling Business Insider that, since getting elected in 2018, “there has been a coordinated right-wing disinformation campaign claiming all sorts of wild things, including the ridiculous claim I am worth millions of dollars which is categorically false.”
While Omar has cultivated her public image as a far-left progressive standing up for “equity” and slamming “privileged billionaires,” the facts about her own net worth don’t seem to be on her side.
New Reporting
As reported on Wednesday’s AM Update, The Washington Free Beacon took a closer look at the congresswoman’s latest Financial Disclosure Report and found her husband – former political consultant Tim Mynett – accumulated a net worth ranging from at least $6 million up to $30 million in 2024.
The vast majority of the wealth came from Mynett’s stake in a venture capital firm Rose Lake Capital valued somewhere between $5 and $25 million. The value of his share in a California-based winery, meanwhile, ranges from $1 million to $5 million. The couple’s net worth soared a combined 3,500 percent compared to the previous year.
The disclosure form did confirm at least one part of Omar’s claim about her financial situation. It listed outstanding student loans somewhere between $15,000 and $50,000 and credit card debt in the same range.
“She is still paying her student loans. Her savings account is in the thousands,” Megyn noted. “She just kind of sort of appears to have forgotten to mention the two multi-million dollar assets tied to her husband’s businesses.”
A Complicated Past
Mynett’s finances are proving to be a recurring source of controversy for his wife. The pair met in June 2018 when his firm was hired to consult on her political campaigns, an arrangement that earned him $2.9 million in the 2020 election cycle alone.
Mynett’s wife at the time filed for divorce in 2019, alleging her husband was having an extramarital affair with Omar. Two months later, the congresswoman filed for divorce from her then-husband. In March 2020, Omar announced on Instagram that she and Mynett had tied the knot.
His political consulting contract was terminated after the 2020 election, and she told the Minnesota Star Tribune the decision was to “make sure that anybody who is supporting our campaign with their time or financial support feels there is no perceived issue with that support.”
For reference, Mynett is not the husband who was allegedly also Omar’s brother. That man was Ahmed Nur Saeed Elmi, whom she married in 2009, separated from in 2011, and divorced in 2017. Then came her brief marriage to Ahmed Hirsi. She divorced him in 2019 to marry Mynett.
Omar denies the allegation that her first husband was her brother, but The Daily Mail claims it has genetic proof of the claim. The accusation is that they married for immigration purposes. The Star Tribune, Omar’s hometown paper, conducted its own investigation in 2019 and concluded it “could neither conclusively confirm nor rebut that she married her brother.”
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