Since her election to Congress in 2018, rumors of Ilhan Omar’s sudden wealth have circulated. We now have proof, from an unimpeachable source: Ilhan Omar herself.
The New York Post reports,
Rep. Ilhan Omar’s net worth skyrockets to as much as $30 million – months after denying she was a millionaire.
The entirety of that $30 million figure is represented by her husband Tim Mynett’s various business interests. Mynett is Omar’s 3rd husband (or 5th, depending on how you number such things). He had previously operated a campaign consulting firm who made nearly $3 million working for Omar’s 2020 re-election campaign.
From the Post,
The financial gains came from Mynett’s two businesses, a Santa Rosa, Calif.-based winery and venture capital firm headquartered in Washington, DC.
That venture capital firm goes by the name Rose Lake.
I had previously documented Mynett’s business (misad)ventures in this piece for American Experiment back in 2023.
When Omar was first elected to the state legislature back in 2016, she was living in city-owned public housing.
Now she owns multiple homes and is worth tens of millions of dollars. Nothing in today’s politics builds more cynicism than the constant parade of new officeholders who immediately convert $200,000/year salaries into fortunes measured in the tens or hundreds of millions of dollars.
We’re in the money.
We’re in the money.
We’ve got a lot of what it takes to get along!
