A winery co-owned by the husband of Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., was shuttered amid fraud claims, House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer, R-Ky., said.
Comer said over the weekend that the winery had been selling empty barrels to investors under the guise of "wine to be aged."
"I can tell you from our initial investigation of Omar and her financial disclosure form that there are multiple fronts where you could get a search warrant issued," Comer told Trey Gowdy on Fox News' "Sunday Night in America."
"First of all, not only was there a huge discrepancy in the financial disclosure form, there was the winery that was the big base of her $25 million listing on her financial disclosure form. That winery has, according to the press, been shut down because of fraud."
This could well explain the bizarre changes in her net assets over the last several years.
US Representative Ilhan Omar's net worth became a talking point after her 2024 financial disclosure showed a sharp increase in the reported value of businesses owned by her husband, Tim Mynett. The disclosure, filed in May 2025, valued his venture capital firm, Rose Lake Capital LLC, at between $5 million and $25 million.
His winery, eStCru LLC, was valued at between $1 million and $5 million.
Of course, Islam does not approve of alcohol. Perhaps those empty barrels of wine were halal.
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