It's a common enough conundrum to ponder: How do so many politicians grow so rich on what is honestly a fairly modest Congressional salary? Before we feign too much amazement, well, we all know that there are all too often some kind of shady dealings going on.
Which brings me to Democratic Representative Ilhan Omar (MN-05). In 2025, we explored some of Rep. Omar and her husband's meteoric rise to wealth, all the more amazing to behold, since Omar arrived in these United States as a refugee with barely a nickel to her name. Now she's enjoying the Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous, with all the trappings except an ongoing narration from Robin Leach.
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Last September, I wrote:
Isn't it remarkable how leftist politicians - and Ilhan Omar is somewhere to the left of Che Guevara - always shout about the need to tax the rich, to soak the productive, to smash capitalism and break up the fortunes of millionaires (until they become one) and billionaires - but they also always seem to grow mysteriously rich. Omar, in particular, could be the primary villain in an Ayn Rand novel: A corrupt, twisted looter, a parasite on the country who has never contributed anything but hot air, who trades not in ideas but in pull.
Now, that pull, and Rep. Omar's sudden wealth has drawn the attention of the House Oversight Committee.
The House Oversight Committee is probing “Squad” Rep. Ilhan Omar’s skyrocketing family wealth after a $9 billion Somali social services fraud scandal exploded in her district,The Post has learned.
Oversight panel Chairman Rep. James Comer (R-Ky.) said staff lawyers are exploring the extraordinary step of subpoenaing Omar’s spouse over his allegedly shady business practices.
“We’re going to get answers, whether it’s through the Ethics Committee or the Oversight Committee, one of the two,” he told The Post.
We should note that it's the Congresswoman's husband, Tim Mynett, who has officially made most of this money. But from where?
Republicans want to know how Somali-born Omar (D-Minn.) and her politically-connected husband Tim Mynett went from nearly broke to being worth up to $30 million in just a year, according to her 2024 disclosure forms.
“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.”
It's not possible, that is, legally. There are many ways to accumulate money quickly if one is politically connected, and Tim Mynett is politically connected; he has sources other than whatever pillow talk he shares with Rep. Omar - and if that's not a mental image that will trouble you for weeks to come, I don't know what might be.
Separately, federal law enforcement is also probing.
“We are investigating all politicians potentially connected to any of this [fraud] in Minnesota. You can read between the lines,” said a law enforcement source.
Unlike the Biden administration, which took no apparent action, Team Trump is “on top of it,” the source said.
The Biden administration took no apparent action on much of anything, other than making sure old Joe got his afternoon pudding cup before his nap. But there is, as the saying goes, a new sheriff in town. We can still be skeptical about any real consequences for Rep. Omar, like, say, expulsion from the House of Representatives, revocation of her citizenship, and deportation back to Somalia. But we've all seen too many cases like this result in some angry press releases, and not much in the way of consequences.
Still, this case may be egregious enough to be the exception. Here's the onion:
Investment firm Rose Lake Capital, formed by Mynett and partner Will Hailer in 2022, is part of a web of companies created by the lefty “Squad” member’s husband of five years.
Rose Lake Capital had a paltry $42.44 in its bank account in late 2022, according to court documents in a lawsuit against a related company filed in South Dakota.
Yet the firm rocketed in value from zero to up to $25 million in just a year, according to Omar’s 2024 filing.
Associates were perplexed enough in 2024 about alleged irregularities and questions about where the money was coming from that they brought information to the attention of federal investigators, sources said.
From $42 to $25 million. In a year. That's a track record of Pelosian scale. House Oversight, or the Justice Department, should be getting to the bottom of this, and we can hope that the Attorney General's office will become involved as well. If these unprecedented gains came from the same sorts of activities that we've seen in the Minneapolis area, so often associated with the Somali community there, then this couple richly (hah) deserves to have charges filed.
As for Rep. Omar: I'd like to wish her luck... But I think we all know I'd be lying.
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